Our Founders, Board,
& Funders
Our Founders
“The Galef Institute is helping
to fulfill a dream Bronya and I share. A dream where children
will be healthy and safe, where they will stay in school,
challenged and vitally engaged in learning, where they will
want to continue learning all their lives, and enter careers
and a workforce knowing they can care for their families and
give back to their communities. . . . It is our dream come
true that we have found a way to help young people become
literate, considerate, and productive members of our society.”
Andrew G. Galef
In 1989, acting on a shared desire to make a difference in
the lives of children, Andrew
and Bronya Galef founded the
Galef Institute. Dedicating their time and resources to
their commitment to children and the improvement of educational
communities, they organized the Galef Institute as an educational
nonprofit whose primary goal is to work with educators in
public schools, schools of education, and other organizations
to improve student achievement by strengthening the teaching
profession.
Together, they assembled a leading team of educators and
researchers who developed the school improvement initiative
Different Ways of Knowing. Today, across the country, schools,
cultural institutions, foundations, and corporations recognize
the Galef Institute’s Different Ways of Knowing as
a source of hope and promise for public education.
Board of Directors
Andrew G. Galef, Co-founder and Chairman
Andrew G. Galef is Chairman and President of The Spectrum
Group, Inc., and serves as Chairman and Director of several
major corporations. He is a graduate of Harvard Business
School and Amherst College. Mr. Galef served on the California
State Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content
and Performance Standards. He is Chairman Emeritus of the
Board of Advisors to the Entrepreneurial Studies Center
of UCLA’s John Anderson Graduate School of Management.
He also serves on the Board of Directors and chairs the
Educational Committee of the Los Angeles Center Theater
Group.
Bronya Pereira Galef, Co-founder
Bronya Pereira Galef is actively involved in education and
the arts both locally and nationally. She was Co-chair of
the California Department of Education’s Visual and
Performing Arts Task Force and is a member of the Los Angeles
Blue Ribbon Committee for the Arts. She is also Chair of
the Board of Trustees of Otis College of Art and Design.
She serves on the Advisory Board of the RAND Institute of
Education and Training and on the Blue Ribbon Committee
of the Los Angeles Music Center. Mrs. Galef is a board member
of Reprise!, an organization dedicated to the production
of Broadway musicals in concert. She is also a member of
the Board of Comite International pour les Musées
d’Art Moderne, a former Trustee of the New School
for Social Research in New York, and a past Director of
the Barnsdall Municipal Arts Gallery in Los Angeles. Mrs.
Galef has worked as a professional photographer and journalist.
Murray Pepper
Murray Pepper is President of Home Silk Shop, Inc., one
of the largest retail textile firms in Southern California.
He has an extensive background in the retail textile industry,
designing and importing textiles for the quilting, home
decoration, and garment trades. A practicing psychologist,
Mr. Pepper is also a private investor in the retail, industrial,
and residential real estate markets in Southern California,
Arizona, and Colorado. His active support of community efforts
in education includes positions as Life Trustee of Pitzer
College; member of the Board of Overseers at Hebrew Union
College; and co-sponsor of the Cotsen-Pepper Master Teacher
Award in Jewish Education and the UCLA Grotstein Lecture
Series. His affiliations include Research Psychoanalyst,
Medical Board of California, division of Allied Health Professions;
California State Bar Association Member (inactive); member,
Chief Executives Organization; Former Chair, Los Angeles
Chapter, Young President’s Organization; and Founder,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He received a J.
D. from University of Southern California School of Law
and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the California Graduate Institute.
Warren W. Valdry, Ph.D.
Dr. Warren W. Valdry is President of Valdry and Associates,
a multi-faceted, private enterprise focusing on education;
real estate investment; land development and management;
and airport policy, governance, and facility administration.
A committed public servant, Dr. Valdry works to foster collaboration
among leaders in business, education, the aviation industry,
and the community to improve the quality of education in
California and to enhance the social and intellectual development
of children, which are critical to the state’s long-term
cultural and economic well-being. In 1985, Dr. Valdry was
instrumental in conceptualizing the 100 Black Men Young
Black Scholars Program, considered one of the most innovative
initiatives to emerge from the African-American community
in the twentieth century. The program works to enhance the
academic performance of African-American high school youths
through enrichment workshops and programs that prepare students
to be competitively eligible for university admissions.
Dr. Valdry has served as Commissioner of the California
Teachers Preparation and License Board, Vice President of
Los Angeles World Airports, Chairman of the Board of the
Airport Council International of North America, and on the
American Association of Airport Executives Commissioners
Committee, an international nonprofit professional organization.
A UCLA Alumni Life Member, Dr. Valdry has participated in
the University of California’s Statewide Outreach
Taskforce. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Galef
Institute, President Emeritus of 100 Black Men, Inc., member
of the Board of Directors of the Dasher International Center
for Student and Scholar.
Morley Winograd
Morley Winograd is an internationally recognized authority
on the impact of technology on life and work. He is the
co-author of Taking Control: Politics in the Information
Age (Holt, 1996), the first book to identify a new
type of voter, “wired workers,” whose values,
derived from their experiences with technology, would become
the driving force in changing American politics. In December
1997, he was asked to apply those ideas to the task of reinventing
the Federal government as Vice President Gore’s Senior
Policy Advisor, National Partnership for Reinventing Government.
Since then, governments in Italy, Mexico, Israel, Costa
Rica, and Argentina have asked Mr. Winograd to help with
their own reform efforts. His lectures on the topic of technology’s
reshaping of America have won wide praise in forums as diverse
as the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Los Angeles’s
Town Hall, Harvard’s JFK School of Government, and
Bologna University’s Johns Hopkins School of International
Affairs. Prior to his work in government, Mr. Winograd spent
eighteen years with AT&T, retiring as a Regional Vice
President for Commercial Markets. Prior to that assignment,
he was President of AT&T’s University of Sales
Excellence, a two-campus corporate training center that
he reshaped into a university environment. His innovative
approach to management has been recognized in management
training books such as Stewardship: Choosing Service
over Self-Interest, by Peter Block (Berrett-Koehler,
1993), and The Monster under the Bed, by Stan Davis
and Jim Botkin (Touchstone Books, 1995). He also served
in numerous sales and marketing positions at Michigan Bell
Telephone and AT&T.
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Our Funders
“In spite of daunting challenges,
your efforts to elevate the profession of teaching, and
to embed the arts into every aspect of K–12 curriculum,
are fostering educational values that may, in the words
of our own mission, ‘help make society more humane
and the world more livable.’ The arts-rich curriculum
along with an approach to organizational development that
relies on substantial one-on-one coaching, leadership development,
and artists-in-residence, is what inspired us to support
this work.”
David Grant, Executive Director, Geraldine
R. Dodge Foundation
We gratefully acknowledge the following partners and donors
for their generous support:
Foundation and Corporate Sponsors
Distinguished Benefactors ($1,000,000 +)
Ahmanson Foundation
Annenberg Foundation
AT&T Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Benefactors ($500,000 – $999,999)
Alliance for Education
Heinz Endowments
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
The Stuart Foundation
Emily Hall Tremaine
Foundation Patrons ($250,000 – $499,999)
American Honda Foundation
Anonymous
Authentic Fitness
Collaborative for Teaching and Learning
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Grable Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
W.M. Keck Foundation
Magne Tek, Inc.
Warnaco
Washington Mutual
Sponsors ($100,000 – $249,999)
Bank of America Foundation
S.H. Cowell Foundation
Ford Foundation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Kentucky Arts Council
National Endowment for the Humanities
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
San Francisco Foundation
S. Mark Taper Foundation
Times Mirror Foundation
United Parcel Service Air Group
Contributors ($25,000 – $99,999)
ARCO Foundation
Ashland Oil
Badgett Center
California Community Foundation
Mary Crocker Trust
Deposit Guarantee National Bank
Fred Gellert Family Foundation
Clarence E. Heller Foundation
Knapp Foundation
Los Angeles Educational Partnership
National Endowment for the Arts
The Norton Foundation, Inc.
People’s Bank
Public Education Foundation
The Rose Hills Foundation
Satellite Educational Resource Consortium
Shinnyo-En Foundation
Telesis Foundation
Weingart Foundation
Wells Fargo Bank
Friends (up to $25,000)
Adobe Foundation Fund
Arco Aluminum
Lawrence T. Baker
Baszik
Century Income Association L.P.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Conimex Aviation Services
Greenville Foundation
Humana
Institute for Educational Inquiry
L.A. Louver Gallery
Lincoln Foundation
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Fund
Marketing Strategy
McKesson Foundation
McKinley Foundation
Mississippi Arts Council
Mississippi Power & Light
National Endowment for the Arts
Neutrogena Corporation
Northrop Grumman
Petco
Plum Foundation
Pritchard Committee
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California
RCM Capital Management
Reprise!
Salomon Brothers
Toyota Corporate Contributions/Toyota Sales, Inc., U.S.A.
United Way
University of Kentucky
Individual Donors
Founders
Andrew and Bronya Galef
Benefactors Circle ($10,000 +)
Royce and Jennifer Diener
Bram and Elaine Goldsmith
Ron and Diane Hoge
Fred and Suzanne Rheinstein
Fred and Kim Ulrich
Allan and Barbara Vizvary
William Yates
Sponsors Circle ($5,000 – $9,999)
Robert and Diane Davidow
Stephen F. and Ann Hinchliffe, Jr.
Richard Kagan
Richard Kayne and Jerry D. Kayne
Barbara Lindeman, Esq.
Caroline Nahas
Nicholas and Amanda Stonnington
Ron and Eileen Weiser
Contributors Circle ($1,000 – $4,999)
Donna Arnold
R. Scott Johnson and Dr. Margaret Bates
Dr. Toni Bernay
Andrew Bogen
Frank W. and Dorothy Clark, Jr.
Brian Conway
Marina Day
Jack and Bobbi Elliot
Gerard B. Finneran
Henry and Arline Gluck
Richard and Harriet Gold
Peter and Elizabeth Goulds
Em Tardy Green
Arthur and Audrey Greenberg
B. Kippling Hogopian
Jere and Sally Jacobs
David T. Johannesen
Jerry and Carol Katzman
Su Lesser
Mickey and Phyllis McCray
Robert and Barbara Myerson
Lawrence and Lee Ramer
Murray Pepper and Vicky Reynolds
William and Laura Siart
Alan Sieroty
Anthony Skvarla
Anwar and Mary Ellen Soliman
Peter and Cam Starrett
Steven and Mary Swig
Allan and Barbara Vizvary
Frederick and Magda Waingrow
William Wasserman
Friends Circle (up to $1,000)
Valorie Armstrong
Daniel Baer
John and Jill Bauman
Tom and Judy Beckmen
Michael Bobrow and Julia Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Maynard M. Brittan
Stan and Marge Bulmer
Melanie Catudan
Jacqueline Cooper
Sam and Sharon Denoff
John Doherty and Michael Learned
Jerry Engel
Vernon S. Evans
J. Robbie Fabian
Fort Mason Foundation
Bert and Benita Ginsberg
Ronald E. and Barbara Gordon
Karen B. Gould
John Gray and Donie O’Carroll
Benny and Lenny Greenberg
Bob and Bobbie Greenfield
Susan Grode
Michael and Phyllis Hennigan
Jeffrey Herr
Herbert and Juli Hutner
Patricia Hynes
Daniel Jaffe and Cynthia Monaco
Jeffrey Jones
Mary Keller
Adele Kimura
Steve and Enid Koffler
Martha Koplin
Ambassador Lester and Carolbeth Korn
Louis A. Kwiker
Chuck and Lydia Levy
Maureen Manning
Ilse Metchek
Merle Miller
Jaime Miranda
Graham Morris
Jack and Elly Nadel
Bryce R. Noel
Peter and Eileen Norton
Dottie O’Carroll
Laura Ornest
Barry Parnell
John Pohlmann
Robert B. and Melissa Resnick
Carolyn N. Rozelle
Stanford Rubin
Fred Sands
Martin E. Segal
Stanley Sheinbaum
Moire Sher
Ken Sherman
Sandy and Betty Sigoloff
Barry Smooke
Debbie Spacek
Philip L. Spalding
Pamela Strain
Susan Swerdloff
Steve and Kirsten Tellez
Larry and Lauree Turman
Dr. Jeff and Chris Weiss
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