Balkan Music &
Dance Workshops

Every summer the EEFC presents two week-long summer camps, which we’ve revved up again after the long pandemic drought. The 2023 camps are over, but you can read all about them as you plan for next year! Mark your calendars for 2024.

June 15-22, 2024
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August 10-17, 2024
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Current Donors

Thank you!

2023 Donors

Contributor list updated as of July 24, 2023. Our 2023 drive is rolling along nicely! So far this year we have received $65,630 — which includes $48,933 in general donations and monthly sustaining contributions, $14,887 for our Kef Scholarship Fund and Good-To-Go Scholarship Endowment Fund, and $1810 for the Nest Egg Endowment Fund. Please consider donating to EEFC today.

Donations of any size are always welcome, especially during these uncertain times.

Bands, Choruses & Dance Groups

Chubritza International Folk Band (Arcata, CA)
Gradina Folk Ensemble (North Bay Area, CA)
Humboldt Folk Dancers (Arcata, CA)
Mixed Bag (Columbus, OH)
Musiki Parea (Vancouver, BC)
Planina Songs of Eastern Europe (Denver, CO)
Tuesday Night Revival Balkan Dancing (Waltham, MA)

Corporate Donors & Matching Donations

AmazonSmile
American Online Giving Foundation (Benevity)
Network for Good
PayPal Giving Fund

Individual, Family & Sustaining Contributors

(monthly sustaining contributors marked with an asterisk)

Andy Adler & Ann Braude
Petar Aleksiev
Evgeniya Angelova
Jim Avera & Barbara Babin
Martha Awdziewicz & Dennis Weis
Annie Bachar
Kent Bailey
Judith Baizan
Anna Banchik
Gloria L. Barello, in memory of Dick Crum
Judy Barlas
Ralph Bates
John Bendix
Michelle Benoit
Gail Berlin, in memory of Myra Rosenhaus
Virginia Berlin
Frederick Bialy
Belle Birchfield & Michael Ginsburg*
Hannah Blair
Irene Blanchard
Sunni Bloland
Carol Bloom
Barbara & Joseph Blumenthal
Marion Blumenthal
Dennis Boardman & Andrea Trautwein
Leslie Boden & Jerry Kisslinger*
Janet Boggia
Susan Bolotin
Jessica Bondy
Steve Boyer
Katie Brawley
Lauren Brody
Dean Brown & Dee Ramee
Elise Brown
Paul Brown
Barbara Bruxvoort
Samuel Buchieri
Jeanne Busch
Nancy Butowski
Krista Canterbury
Priscilla Carlson
Bart Carpenter
Randy Carrico & Deborah Dukes
Christopher Castelle
Cleo Chappelle
Morgan Clark & Batja Bell
Jeanne Clifford
Joyce Clyde
Bruce Cochran
Emily Cohen & Eric Frumin*
Leni Cohen
Leslie Cohen
Martha Cohen & Marc Wolman*
Steve Collins*
Roger Cooper & Judy Olson
Jo Crawford
Amanda Crego-Emley
Teymour & Susan Darkhosh
Joyce deSaussure, in memory of Bill deSaussure
E. John Doubt
Marchette DuBois
Marlene Dworkin
Karen M. Eckhart
Marian Eines
Rachel Birtha Eitches
Jordan Ellison
Leah Erez
John David Eriksen
Sheila Ewall
Rima Fand & Greg Squared
Sarah Ferholt*
John & Gunila Feroe
Melinda Fields
Steven Finney
Sheldon Finver
Mark Forry
Anna Rose Gable
Michael Gage & Sandra Cherin
John Gallant
Muriel B. Garfinkel
Brent Geary
Ken Genetti
Erica George*
Sarada George
Erika Gerson
Kate Gerson & Charles Maddison
Ira Gessel
Joey Gilbert, in memory of Edward Gilbert
Anna Goldberg
Henry Goldberg
Eva Goldwater
Barbara Gottfried*
Wade Gray
Leslie Griffin
Steven Gruverman
Sándor Halász & Roberta Jaskolski
Emily Jarrett Hughes
Thea Hambright, in honor of Michael Ginsburg
Bryn Hammarstrom
Joan E. Hantman, in memory of Sophia Poster and Gerda Ben Zeev
Susan Hatlevig
Emerson Hawley*
Glynis Hawley & Andy Kacsmar
Jim & Marie Hayes
Riccardo Heald
Sara C. Heitshu, in memory of Terry Friedman
Biz Hertzberg & James Hoskins*
Robert Hoffnung & Marsha Beller
Vita Hollander
Camille Holmes
Susan Hovorka
Lanita Hyatt
Arlene Imagawa & Mark Jenkins
Morty Isaacson, in memory of Erica Zissman
Pat Iverson
Jill Johnson
Shirley Johnson
Connie Strohbehn Kaczmarczyk & Mike Strohbehn
Lea Anne Kangas
Irene Karavokiros
Solange Kellermann
Bette Kelley & Wayne Gulden, in honor of Saul Stahl
Memo Keswick
Jenny Kilgore
William King
Monica Kirkland
Karen Klevanosky
Ralph Knag
Nancy Goldstein Knight
Marlis Kraft
Noel & Judy Kropf
Rick Kruse
Craig Kurumada
Julie Lancaster & Jim Schwartzkopff
Ari Langer
Michael Leach
Sonne, Nick & Tamara Lemke
Theresa Levin
Roberta Levine
Mark Levy & Carol Silverman
Nesa Levy
Sara Lindberg
James Little
Sonia Lipson, in honor of Ralph Iverson & Melinda Fields
Margaret Loomis & Larry Weiner
Rachel MacFarlane
Jim Madigan*
Linnea Mandell
Alexander Marković
Mary Marshall
Helen Marx
Katia McClain, in memory of Dick Crum
Ken McCormick
Nancy & Jim McGill
Michael McKenna & Debbie Webb
Amy Mills*
Betsy Moore
Matt Moran
John Morovich
David Moseley
Kenneth Moss
Kathleen Mratinich
Judy Newland
Clayton Newman & Nancy McGhee
Olga Nikolic-Litwin
Maria Noël
Julie Orth & Frank Garcia*
Craig Packard, in memory of Mile Kolarov
Patrick Paglen
Laura Pannaman
Ann Partlow
Jeanne Peck
Susan Pinkham
Janet Platin
Adam & Samin Pogoff
Jane Pook
Zina Pozen
Ariadne Prater & Michell Allen
Mary Proudfoot
Maclovia Quintana & Adam Waite
John Ridgway
Chris Rietz & Deb Huxtable
Suzanne Rizer & Tom Hixon
Thorn Roby
Varol Saatcioglu, in memory of Vassil Bebelekov
RosieLee C. Salinas
Owen & Barbara Saxton
Stuart Schaffner
Betsy Schiavone
Daniel Schleifer & Johanna Walczak
Rich Schultz & Christine Montross
Robert Schulz
Leslie Scott
Marjorie & Bill Selden
Evin Sellin
Jenette Sellin
Sara Senie
Wendy & Doug Shearer*
David Shochat
Bonnie Silver, in memory of Shulamit Locker
Michele Simon & Jeff Garaventa
Jonathan Skinner
Catherine Springer
Carol B. Smith
Catherine Smith
Lewis R. Smith & Melissa Miller
Marilyn Smith
Matt Smith
David Solnit
Jeffrey Sonis
Carolyn Spier, in memory of Diane Montgomery
Sarah Spratley
Michelle Srbinovich
Suze Stentz & Richie Leonard
Michael Sternberg & Linda Mansdorf
CB Stevenson
Helen Stuart
Jane Sugarman
Corinne Sykes
Debby Szajnberg*
Ingrid I. Talmadge
Sarah Tanzer Talbot
Demetrios Tashie
Radka & Ulf Temnitzer
Ben Thomas
Laurel Titus
Carol Toffaleti
Dina Trageser
Marguerite Treat
Randy Trigg
Barbara & John Uhlemann
David Unterman
Carmen D. Valentino
Flora, Heshel & Zuya van Wormer
Kristina Vaskys
Chrysanthie Voreas, in memory of Nick Voreas
Sandra Ward
Gisela Welsh
Jan Williams
Susan Williard
Scott Wilson
Sabine Wolber
Kimberlee Wollter
Beth Wright
Patrick Yacono
Loretta M. Yam
Danilo Yanich
Naomi Zamir
and two anonymous donors

 

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THANK YOU!
 

2022 Donors

Contributor list updated as of September 30, 2022. Our 2022 drive brought in $53,828 — which includes $46,337 in general donations and pledged monthly sustaining contributions, $5,305 for the Kef Scholarship Fund, and $2,186 for the Nest Egg Endowment Fund.

Bands, Choruses & Dance Groups

Chubritza International Folk Band
Humboldt Folk Dancers
Mixed Bag
Orkestar Banitsa
Grupa Dunbarov
Svirači

Corporate Donors & Matching Donations

Network for Good
PayPal Giving Fund
The organizers of the August 2022 Balkan Gathering at Iroquois Springs

Individual, Family & Sustaining Contributors

Andy Adler & Ann Braude
Michelle Alany
Douglas Allen
Mitchell Allen
Jim Avera & Barbara Babin
Martha Awdziewicz & Dennis Weis
Ralph Bates
Michelle Benoit
Virginia Berlin
Susan, Paul & Nathan Bernacki
Frederick Bialy
Belle Birchfield & Michael Ginsburg
Carol Bloom
Joseph & Barbara Blumenthal
Laura Blumenthal & Mark Hamilton
Marion Blumenthal
Leslie Boden & Jerry Kisslinger
Susan Boggiano
Susan Bolotin
Jessica Bondy
Zora Boyadzhieva
Dean Brown & Dee Ramee
Paul Brown
Patricia Buhl
Nancy Butowski
Jeanne Busch
Marilyn Cable
Priscilla Carlson
Bart & Kate Carpenter
Goktug Cinar
Morgan Clark
Joyce Clyde
Debra Cohen
Emily Cohen & Eric Frumin
Martha Cohen & Marc Wolman
Steve Collins
Sally Confer
Roger Cooper & Judy Olson
Jacqueline Corl-Seidel
Jo Crawford
Teymour & Susan Darkhosh
Janice Darling
Naomi Segal Deitz
Susan Cohen DeStefano
Judy Donaldson
Aleksandar Donev
Marchette DuBois
Marlene Dworkin
Marian Eines, in memory of Rose Tannenbaum
Jordan Ellison
Leah Erez
Marilyn Morrison Erway
Sheila Ewall
Matthew Fass
Lila Feingold
Julian & Deborah Ferholt
Sarah Ferholt
Melinda Fields
Jeff Fine
Sylvia Fine
Steven Finney
M.J. Fischer
Kathy Fors, in memory of Diane Montgomery
Barbara Friedman
Carol Friedman
Erica George
Kate Gerson
Ira Gessel
Edward Gilbert
Joey Gilbert, in memory of Edward Gilbert
Jessica Gills
Anna Goldberg
Erik Goldman
Eva Goldwater
Barbara Gottfried
Vera Grab
Joseph G. Graziosi
Chilton Gregory
Sharon Grodin
Laurie Grossman & Richard Hertzfeld, in memory of Ellen Cannon
Francesca Guido, in memory of Joe Mandell
Mimi Gussow
Jill Halloran
Thea Hambright
Bryn Hammarstrom & Lynne Graham
Joan Hantman
Susan Hatlevig
Emerson Hawley
Glynis Hawley & Andy Kacsmar
Mary Hawley
Biz Hertzberg & James Hoskins
Frances G. Hoenigswald
Vita Hollander
Stasha Hughes
Morty Isaacson
Patricia Iverson
Connie Strohbehn Kaczmarczyk
Lea Anne & Tom Kangas
Carole & Paul Kantor
Nina Kavardjikova
Solange Kellermann
Bette Kelley
Jenny Kilgore
Matthew Killorin
William & Pat King
Karen Klevanosky
Ralph Knag
Eileen Kopec
Marlis Kraft, in memory of George Caba
Hinda Kriegel
Noel & Judy Kropf
Rick Kruse
Craig Kurumada
Tamar Lavy
Michael Lawson & Lori McConnell
Deborah & Jacob Lazarovic
Sarah Lazarovic
Michael Leach
Geneviève Leloup
Sonne Lemke
Roberta Levine
Mark Levy
Sonia Lipson, in honor of Ralph Iverson & Melinda Fields
Margaret Loomis & Larry Weiner
Stacey MacFarlane & Jeff Breland, in memory of Marian MacFarlane
Barbara MacLean
Jim Madigan
Daniel Maldonado
Linnea Mandell
Mary Marshall, in memory of Steve Gould
Helen Marx
Douce Massenkoff
Evy Mayer
Katia McClain
Nancy & Jim McGill
Michael McKenna & Debbie Webb
Leanne Mennin
Eileen Menteer
Amy Mills
Betsy Moore
Matt Moran
Kathleen Mratinich
Daniel Mullen
Alex Murdzhev
Judy Newland
Clayton Newman & Nancy McGhee
Rose Marie Nunez
Julie Orth & Frank Garcia
David Owens, in memory of Dick Crum
Craig Packard
Laura Pannaman
Ann Partlow
Robert Pleshar & Elizabeth Johnson
Adam Pogoff
Paul Poresky
Zina Pozen
Michael Protenic, Jr.
Mary Proudfoot
Nada Putnik
Maclovia Quintana
Monica Ravinet
Dick Rawson
Polly Reetz
Chris Rietz & Debora Huxtable
Martie Ripson
Theresa Ritts
Suzanne Rizer & Tom Hixon
Lois Romanoff
John “Yianni” Roussos & Georgia Sloane Roussos
Nancy Ruyter
Elizabeth “MB” Ryan
Bruce Sagan
Leighanne Saltsman
Owen & Barbara Saxton
Betsy Schiavone
Daniel Schleifer
Richard Schultz & Christine Montross
Robert Schulz
Marjorie & Bill Selden
Jenette Sellin
Peggy Sharp, in honor of the Ukrainian people
Alysha Shaw
Joan & Matt Shear
Wendy & Doug Shearer
David Shochat & Gini Rogers
Bonnie Silver
Caroline Simmonds
Michele Simon & Jeff Garaventa
Leah Sirkin
Lewis Smith & Melissa Miller
Matt Smith
Mani & Karen Soma
Cheryl Spasojević
Rebecca States, in honor of Michael Ginsburg & Belle Birchfield for all they do for NYC folk dance!
CB Stevenson
Elizabeth Stuart
Jane Sugarman
Debby Szajnberg
Terri Taggart
Ingrid I. Talmadge
Sarah Talbot Tanzer
Radka Temnitzer
Benjamin Thomas
W. Barry Thomson, in memory of Shulamit Locker
Holly Thuman
Randy Trigg
Keiko Trenholm
Lucas Tyrrell
Carmen D. Valentino
Annemoon van Erp
Flora, Heshel & Zusya van Wormer
Kristina Vaškys
Alexandra Vuksich
Sandy Ward & Ken Harstine
Michelle Tsigaridas Weller
D.K. Wheeler
Susan Williard
Kimberlee Wollter
Beth Wright, in honor of Ukraine
Merideth Wright & Fred Emigh
Patrick Yacono
Loretta M. Yam
Herman Yee
and one anonymous donor