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OUR SUPPORTERS

Culture OC will thrive, thanks to community members like you. By supporting our nonprofit newsroom, you help us grow our team and keep our local stories free to read for all of Orange County. We are grateful to the individuals and foundations that make the work of Culture OC possible and are proud to list our supporters.  You can become a supporter by donating today!

These are our Founding Supporters.  The first 500 donors to give in support of Culture OC are part of an elite group we call —

THE CULTURE 500

Because Culture OC evolved out of our work at Voice of OC, we have included the names of those who donated to our arts and culture journalism since we began in 2018.

 

We have 178 names and organizations on the list so far.

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We still have room to add yours!

  • Wylie A Aitken

  • Suzanne Appel

  • Anaheim Ballet

  • Marco Anderson

  • Mike Anderson

  • Arts Orange County

  • Association of Designers & Artists

  • Payal Kumar Avellan

  • Janice Badgley

  • Randy Baker

  • Paul Banagas

  • Mike Bebb

  • Karen Book

  • Bowers Museum

  • Christine Boyd

  • Brea Gallery

  • Divya Breed

  • Judith Brower

  • Barbara Bruin

  • Cecily Burke

  • Stephanie Butler

  • Michele Cardon

  • Dennis Castellano

  • Chance Theater

  • Richard Chang

  • Steve Chapin

  • Chemers Gallery

  • Katherine Chidester

  • Denise Chilcote

  • Jeffrey Coleman

  • Cynthia Corley

  • Tina Cremer

  • Jaime DeJong

  • Patricia Delaunay

  • Scott Duncan

  • Lucetta Dunn

  • Cameron Durham

  • Karen DuVall

  • Zen Edwards

  • Zina Edwards

  • Linda Ellinor

  • Zenthia Everett

  • Jeanne Favreau

  • Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach

  • Festival Ballet Theatre

  • Douglas K. Freeman

  • Rachel Forman

  • John Forsyte

  • Kedric Francis

  • Christina Garner

  • Jessamyn Garner

  • Diana Ghoukassian

  • Thomas Gibson

  • Blake and Char Gould

  • Jill Grabowski

  • Julie Ha

  • ​Sally Haberlin

  • David Hamdorf

  • Kathy Harris

  • Julie Hatoff

  • Sue Henger

  • Karen Hernandez

  • Mark Hilbert

  • Hilbert Museum of California Art

  • Hoag Foundation

  • Paul Hodgins

  • The Honarkar Foundation

  • Susan Hori

  • Michael Hornak

  • Jonathan Hubbell

  • Judith Hutton

  • Ann J Irvine

  • Irvine Barclay Theatre

  • Evette Jaeger

  • Heide Janssen

  • Joe & Elaine Janssen

  • Alex and Kay Kaplan

  • Jerold Kappel

  • Mike Kerr and Jenny Backhaus

  • Venus Kitagawa-Stojsic

  • Lauren Klein

  • Melody Kneale

  • Peter Koch

  • Nick Kremer

  • Laguna Dance Festival

  • Mary Langsdorf

  • David Lieberman​​

  • Lawrence Light

  • Casey Long

  • Julia Lupton

  • Molly Lynch

  • Mary Lyons

  • Lyric Opera of Orange County

  • Edward Mace

  • Jerry Mandel

  • Kay Marcantonio

  • Jeffrey Martin

  • Deborah Mayhew

  • Molly McClanahan

  • Steve McHale

  • Barbara McMurray

  • Paul McNeff

  • Media Arts Santa Ana

  • Linda Mendelsohn

  • Tracie Metzner

  • Harish Murthy

  • Lucina Moses

  • Cindy Murphy

  • Robbi Nester

  • Newport Beach Film Festival

  • Todd Nicholson

  • Tammy Noreyko

  • Wayne Norman

  • Cynthia O'Dell

  • Jean Oelrich

  • Orange County Community Foundation

  • Pacific Chorale

  • Pacific Symphony

  • Cheer Pan

  • Michael Pang

  • Mario & Norma Panoringan

  • Joanne Payne

  • Kathy Peale

  • Marlene Peña-Marin

  • Lea Peterson

  • Daniel Pietenpol

  • Mary Platt

  • Joan Podrow

  • Lyn Pohlmann

  • Pretend City Children's Museum

  • Rick Reiff

  • Robin Repp

  • Rose Foundation

  • Rubin Institute of Music Criticism

  • Amanda Santana​​

  • Lisa Schultz

  • Mona Shah

  • Don & Sally Anne Sheridan

  • Bill & Ronna Shipman

  • Sally Simmons

  • Segerstrom Center for the Arts

  • Six Toes Studio

  • Christopher Smith

  • Soka Performing Arts Center

  • Steven Sorenson

  • South Coast Repertory

  • Genevieve Southgate

  • Andrew Spencer

  • Angela Stecher

  • Richard and Elizabeth Steele Endowment Fund

  • Richard and Alison Stein

  • Alex "Alx" Stojsic

  • Mary Stradling

  • Dahlia Straight

  • Sweetgreen

  • Alison Tam

  • JoLane Thomas

  • Brendan Timpane

  • David Todd

  • Paula Tomei

  • Christopher Trela

  • Anne Valedespino

  • VinoPop

  • Voice of OC

  • Hao-Nhien Vu

  • Jon Wagner

  • Theresa Walker

  • John Webb

  • Courtney Widerman

  • Carrie William Freitas

  • Cory Winter

  • Barbara Wise

  • The Wooden Floor

  • Debora Wondercheck

  • Brad Wright

  • Kaitlin Wright

  • Jane Fujishige Yada

  • The Emma and Adam Zhu Foundation

  • Joyce Zohar

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