Pledges to Date/Contributors

Campaign Goal: $6,316,000

Phase 1 Goal: $4,600,00

As of April 15, 2003, total cash and pledges: $4,540,880

Current Supporters of the Campaign – partial list

Howard & Roberta Ahmanson
American Republic
Amerus Group Charitable Foundation
Anderson Erickson Dairy
Anonymous Gift - $500,000
Anonymous gift - $25,000
Anonymous gift - $5,000
LaVerne Austin
Madelene Yvonne Bassett Trust
Bill & Betty Bishop
Kirk & Doreen Blunck
Brenton Foundation Fund
The Bright Foundation
Winifred Bruner Memorial
Gardner & Florence Call Cowles Foundation
Central Iowa Health Systems
City of Des Moines
Bill & Corky Classen
Jim Collier
Jim & Patty Cownie Charitable Fund
Des Moines Metropolitan Historical Building Preservation Trust
Des Moines Women's Club
Easter Family Foundation
Employers Mutual Charitable Foundation
Essex Meadows, Inc. on behalf of Fred & Steve Weitz
Federal Home Loan Bank
Wilson & Idabelle Forker
Michael & Barbara Gartner
Graham Group Inc
Greater Des Moines Community Foundation
Ron & Kay Grooters
John R & Zelda Grubb Charitable Foundation
Annamae Heaps
Herbert | Lewis | Kruse | Blunck
Luther & Sara Hill
Fred & Charlotte Hubbell
Jim Hubbell, Jr.
Hubbell Realty Company
Elizabeth Hughes
David & Barb Hurd Foundation
HyVee Inc.
Iowa State Bank
ITA Group
Al & Ann Jennings Foundation
Carol Beth Jeske
Russ & Lucile Johnson
Winifred Kelley
Irene Knapp
W.C. Knapp Charitable Foundation
Kruidenier Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Bob & Ann Larson
Madelyn Levitt Foundation
The Levitt Foundation
Harriet Macomber
Bob & Hap Maddox
Helen McEwan Trust
Meredith Corporation Foundation
Catherine Mick
MidAmerican Energy Foundation
Jeaunette Nall
Marjorie O’Braza
Sam & Sara O’Brien
Pioneer Hi-Bred Int’l, Inc.
Polk County
Prairie Meadows Grant Advisory Committee
Principal Financial Group Foundation
Helen Rothfus Trust
John Ruan Foundation Trust
Bob & Cherie Shreck
State Historical Society of Iowa
Stan & Dotty Thurston
Tim & Toni Urban
Vision Iowa
A. Thomas & Kathryn Wallace
The Weathertop Foundation
Weitz Company
Weitz Family Fund
West Bank
Connie Wimer
Anna Belle Wonders