Our supporters

Donors, funders and members subscribe to Cityside’s belief that promoting greater civic engagement and informed discourse is a direct route to better, more inclusive and healthier communities.

Cityside funders and supporters

More than $2,000,000

  • American Journalism Project
  • Google News Initiative

$100,000 – $999,999

  • Albert and Janice Meister Family Foundation
  • Bass Austern Family Fund
  • Barb and Andy Fremder
  • Chamberlin Education Foundation
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
  • Facebook Journalism Project
  • John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
  • Mark and Susan Stutzman
  • Mike and Teresa Olson
  • Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation
  • Stuart Foundation

$10,000 – $99,999

  • Akonadi Foundation
  • Alison Teeman and Michael Yovino-Young
  • Alan and Ruth Tobey
  • An Anonymous Donor at The San Francisco Foundation
  • Anne Pardee
  • Amr Awadallah and Shirin Hassan
  • Astera Fund
  • Battery Powered
  • Brickyard C Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation
  • California Endowment
  • The Caswell Jin Foundation
  • Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
  • Challenge each other
  • Chavez Family Foundation
  • Charles and Laurie Kahn
  • Christopher and Trudi Seiwald
  • Data-Driven Reporting Project
  • David Margulius
  • Deborah Farb and Eric Sippel
  • Decide quickly
  • Edward Dua and Nicole Wong
  • Edwin M Lee Community Fund
  • Erica Grubb
  • Evelyn Nussenbaum and Fred Vogelstein
  • Gideon Bollag
  • Go and see
  • Go to Western Union
  • Gordon and Evelyn Wozniak
  • Haney Family Charitable Fund
  • Hellman Foundation Fund
  • Herrick and Elaine Jackson
  • James Canty
  • Jeanne Dinkelspiel
  • Jill Tonkin Finegold
  • JPMorganChase
  • Kenneth Rainin Foundation
  • Keith Bostic and Margo Seltzer
  • Kathy Kwan
  • The Kesel-Wickline Fund
  • Lesher Foundation
  • Luna Foundation
  • Manitou Fund
  • Mark Hossein Ettefagh
  • Mary and Stan Friedman
  • Merlin Olson
  • Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren
  • Mr and Mrs Jonathan DeYoe
  • Patrick Kennedy
  • Paula Hughmanick and Steve Berger
  • The PG&E Corporation Foundation
  • Push the limits of possible
  • Renaissance Journalism
  • Richard Nagler and Sheila Sosnow
  • Richard Robbins
  • Roger McNamee
  • Rockridge Fund
  • San Francisco Foundation
  • Scott James
  • The Scorpio Rising Fund
  • Stephen and Cindy Snow
  • Stephanie McKown and John Brennan
  • Surtman Foundation
  • Taube Philanthropies
  • The Women’s Foundation California
  • The Yellow Chair Foundation
  • Vita Wells
  • Walnut Fund
  • William Falik and Diana Cohen
  • William H. Donner Foundation
  • Y & H Soda Foundation
  • Stacey Zolt Hara

$1,000 – $9,999

  • Venkatesh Abboy
  • Larry Abel
  • Denise Abrams
  • Denny Abrams
  • Jonathan Adams
  • Ronald and Patricia Adler
  • Adobe corporate matching program
  • Gertrude Allen
  • Joaquin Alvarado
  • American Press Institute
  • Rachel Anderson and Sally McCoy
  • Trish Ang
  • Anonymous (In memory of Robert Mersfelder)
  • Apple corporate matching program
  • Donald Arbitblit and Jill Suttie
  • Ramon Ariza
  • Peter Ashbaugh
  • Terry and Barbara Atlas
  • Martha Baab
  • Pete Babb
  • Baelchbucice Charitable Fund
  • Mike and Linda Baker
  • Jonathan Bare
  • Penny Barron
  • Thomas Bates
  • Beall Family Foundation
  • Matt Beaumont-Gay
  • Jon Bendich
  • John Bendix
  • Leora Benioff
  • Mary Bergan
  • Betsy Bigelow-Teller
  • Susan Blew
  • John Bliss and Kim Thompson
  • Anne Bodel and Edward Hannemann
  • Douglas Booth and Margaret Simpson
  • Garrett Bourg
  • Ralph and Donna Briskin
  • Jessica Broitman and Gibor Basri
  • Shawna and Daniel Brotsky
  • Amelia Bunch
  • Bonnie Burt and Mark Liss
  • John and Colleen Busch
  • Ruth Busbee
  • Byron Huey
  • Tristan Cameron
  • Susan Campodonico
  • John Caner and Paul Booth
  • Laurie Capitelli
  • Milton and Arlene Capsimalis
  • Kenneth Caruana
  • James B Chanin Foundation
  • The Charles Piper Cost Foundation
  • Bernadette Chi
  • Oren and Catherine Cheyette
  • Cynthia Chen
  • Terri Chytrowski
  • Cisco Corporate Matching
  • Zee and Jay Claiborne
  • George Clyde
  • Laurel Coates
  • David Cobb and Annette Doornbos
  • Jerry Cole
  • David Coleman
  • Penelope Cooper
  • Simone Coxe
  • Karen Coyle
  • Tracy Craig
  • Marnie Crawford Samuelson
  • Frederick Conrad
  • John Danner and Nancy Pietrafesa
  • Joshua Dapice
  • Diane Davenport
  • Narsai David
  • Davis Family Charitable Fund
  • Jeff Day
  • The Dido Fund
  • Diane Diamond
  • The Dickinson Fund
  • Steven Dinkelspiel
  • Disney Corporate Matching
  • Andrea Dooley
  • Jennifer Doebler and Pat Kelly
  • Fred Dozier
  • Lori Droste
  • William Duhamel
  • John Ehrlich
  • Michelle Eslami
  • Frederic Enea
  • Marilee Enge and George Frost
  • Jacob and Louise Epstein
  • Will Evers and Melinda Ellis Evers
  • Miranda Ewell
  • Excel Fund
  • Robert Fabry
  • Colleen Fain
  • Sara Fain
  • Steve Fainaru
  • Nancy Falk and Dick Cluster
  • Fan Family Charitable Fund
  • Chuck Fanning and Melinda Haag
  • Elizabeth Farnsworth
  • Lynn Feintech
  • Erin Felter
  • Anne and Russell Fernald
  • Lauren Fernandez
  • Howard and Carol Fields
  • Fleishhacker Foundation
  • Fletcher Foundation
  • Colleen Fong
  • Mary Ford
  • Steve Fox
  • Mary Frank
  • Daniel Frank
  • Joan Fujii
  • Gordon Fulton
  • Daniel and Kate Funk
  • Graham Gardner
  • Beth Gerstein and Karen Bowen
  • Richard and Patricia Gibbs
  • Sarah Gill
  • Cathy and Steven Goldsmith
  • Google corporate matching program
  • Bruce Goldberg and Jana Good
  • Harvey Gould
  • Justin Grant
  • Richard Grant
  • Marianna Green
  • Grove Fund
  • Marian and Roger Gray
  • Pamela and Timothy Gray
  • Pamela Grossman
  • Margo Hackett and Robert Yagura
  • Sophie Hahn
  • Quentin and Vanessa Hardy
  • Ann Harvey
  • Jack Heart
  • Ann Hecht
  • Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
  • Susan Helmrich and Richard Levine
  • Hepner Xue Fund
  • Tom Herriman
  • Sheila and Ted Himmel
  • Carol Hirth
  • Karen Holtermann
  • Adam Hochschild
  • Phil Hood and Laurie Shapley Hood
  • John and Barbara Holzrichter
  • Erika Houtz
  • Thomas Hoynes
  • Hua Hsu
  • Susan Hubl
  • Eric Huppert
  • Janet Huseby and Robert Smith
  • Alan Hyden
  • Impactassets
  • Frederick Isaac
  • Bill Issel
  • Ann Jensen
  • Chad Johnson
  • Lynn Jones-Fynn
  • Judith Justice
  • Eli Kane Fund
  • Lisa Katovich
  • Emilie Keas
  • Jesse Kellerman
  • Kathy Kenworthy and Paul Barale
  • Jonathan Khuner
  • Andy Kivel
  • Isaac Kos-Read
  • Sandy Koshkin
  • Bo Krause
  • Linda Kremer
  • Matthew Kretzer
  • Ruth Krishnan
  • Carol and Edward Kunita
  • Heather Kuiper
  • Lucy Kuntz
  • Dennis Kuo
  • Kyle Lamson
  • Lappen Family Foundation
  • Laura Leaverton
  • Eleanore Lee
  • Elizabeth Lee-Egan
  • Rochelle Lefkowitz
  • Leo J Celia Carlin Fund
  • Ryan Lester
  • Nick Levinson
  • Peter Levitt
  • Deborah Lewis
  • Robert Lewis
  • Ben Liaw
  • John Lineweaver
  • Steven Lipson
  • Cynthia LLoyd
  • Doug Love
  • Judith Lubman
  • Katrina Lundstedt
  • Bobby and Elizabeth Lutzker
  • Lymburn/Kelly Family
  • Olivia Ma
  • Eric Leo Mannes
  • Helen Marcus
  • Richard Marcus
  • Natalie Martina
  • Martinez Family Charitable Fund
  • Sheila McCormick and Paul Herzmark
  • McGuinn Family Fund
  • Charles McKinley
  • Kirk McKusick
  • Jack and Barbara McPhail
  • Emily and Stephen Mendel
  • Cathy and Gary Meyer
  • Samuel Miller and Maude Pervere
  • Heather Mirjahangir
  • Meridee Moore
  • James Morgan
  • Dennis Mulqueeney and Patricia Rossi
  • Judith Myers
  • Roger Myers
  • Julie Nachtwey
  • Network for Good
  • Audre and Roger Newman Fund
  • Will Newman
  • Nicole Nguyen
  • Doug Ng and Theo Posselt
  • James Novosel
  • Oracle corporate matching program
  • Stuart Ozer
  • Elizabeth and Douglas Overmyer
  • Jennifer Pahlka
  • Julie Palley
  • Anne and Michael Parish
  • Shyam Patel and Jill Kunishima
  • Ellen Pechman
  • Peleh Fund
  • Hilary Perkins
  • Jessica Pers and Robert Stein
  • Anthony and Sally Petru
  • Jeanie Phan
  • Diane Plank
  • Michael Pollan and Judith Belzer
  • Jane and Paul Quiring
  • Ramya Raghavan
  • Emily Ramshaw
  • Sarah and Mike Ranney
  • Jon Ransohoff
  • George Rehm
  • Cindy Reid
  • Ren Winkler Giving Fund
  • Mark and Erin Rhoades
  • Jesse Rhodes
  • Audrey Richards
  • Denis Ring
  • Alan and Cheryl Rinzler
  • Robert Roat
  • John Roberts
  • Roblox Corporate Matching
  • Louise Rothman-Riemer
  • Rose-Ramo Fund
  • David Ruegg
  • James Rutherford
  • Steve Sachs and Michelle Lynn-Sachs
  • Salesforce.com
  • Alan and Nancy Saldich
  • Frank Sally
  • The Sand Foundation
  • Elizabeth Sawi
  • Linda Schacht
  • Susan Schwartz
  • Thomas C Schwartzburg
  • Ira and Carol Serkes
  • Michael Shaw and Sara Warshaw
  • Randy Shaw
  • Vicki Shu
  • Dan Siegel
  • Richard Simon
  • Rachel Mercy Simpson
  • Satch Slavin
  • Fran Smallson and Christopher Jackson
  • Jeanne Smith
  • David Snippen
  • Shelby and Vicki Solomon
  • Bill Somerville
  • David and Brynne Staley
  • Robert and Jordan Stark
  • Frances and Randolph Starn
  • Barbara Steuart
  • Brandon Silverman and Alisa Padon
  • Robert Colin Scott
  • Deborah Shefler
  • Paul and Andrea Swenson
  • Miye Takagi
  • Marcia Tanner
  • Kat Taylor
  • Susan Taylor
  • Stephen Teigland
  • The One Four Five Fund
  • Erin and John Thornton
  • The Tidewater Rise Fund
  • Ama Torrance
  • Elsa Tranter
  • William and Micki Turner
  • Michael Ubell
  • Sarah Van Roo
  • Jennifer Vetter
  • Kathryn Vizas
  • Charlotte von der Hude
  • Carol Walb
  • Marilyn Waldman
  • Dorothy Walker
  • Myrna Walton
  • Trudy Ward
  • Wareham Development
  • Mal Warwick
  • Steve Wasserman
  • Adam Weisberg
  • Dana Welch and Scott Adams
  • Annie Westwater and Cormac Eubanks
  • Monica White
  • Jennifer Werner
  • Beany Wezelman
  • Dan White
  • Jay Wiedwald
  • Greg Wolfe
  • Andrew Wu
  • Randy Wu
  • Ray Yep
  • Mitch Zeemont and Laura Blair
  • Olivier Zyngier
  • Helene Moorman
  • Josef Leitmann
  • Mark Aronson
  • Nikhil Saifullah
  • Sergio Garcia and Amelia Gonzalez
  • Brickyard Family Fund (V) at the East Bay Community Foundation
  • Gary and Eileen Morgenthaler
  • Helene Moorman
  • Josef Leitmann
  • Mark Aronson
  • Nikhil Saifullah
  • Sergio Garcia and Amelia Gonzalez
  • Brickyard Family Fund (V) at the East Bay Community Foundation
  • Gary and Eileen Morgenthaler

Prior to the formation of Cityside as a nonprofit, Berkeleyside raised more than $1 million in 2016-18 from its readers in an innovative direct public offering. We refer to these key supporters as Cityside’s Foundation Members, and we are forever grateful for their pledge of support.

Our Foundation Members

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So you’ve decided to donate to help keep local journalism free and accessible – amazing. But just how far does your donation go? What can you expect from it? Well, let’s find out.