Donor List

Thank You to Our Donors.

The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare gratefully acknowledges the many individuals, families, corporations, foundations and organizations that have so generously supported our programs. The following includes cumulative gifts and pledges made during the 2022 calendar year.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of donor names. Please contact us with any changes to your listing.

Individual Donors

National Compassionate Care Circle

Members of our National Compassionate Care Circle are individual donors who give $10,000 or more to support the work of the Schwartz Center.

$100,000+

Ellen R. Cohen and Daniel Haber
Stephen Corman

$50,000-$99,999

Anonymous 
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

$25,000-$49,999

Anonymous (3)
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Fran and Michael Goldberg
Kathy and Jack Shields
Jeanie Ungerleider and William Stone, MD

$10,000-$24,999

Michael J. Astrue and Laura W. Mali-Astrue
Robyn Begley, DNP
Michael Blau and Ann Muschett
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Peggy Crawford, PhD
Andrew Dreyfus
Michael S. Feldberg and Ruth Lazarus 
Rushika and Maria Fernandopulle
Kerry A. Flynn, CLP
Jackson & Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust
Ellen Feldberg Gordon and Michael Gordon
Ruth Kilduff, RN, and Jay Carrigan
In memory of Christian Minard
Ruth G. Koblenzer
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD
Elizabeth Maringer and Jay Shiland
Sharon and Brian McNally
Jo Frances Meyer
Angela Patterson, DNP
Clare Reilly and Mark Reynolds
Sherman H. Starr Foundation
Tony and Kathy Starr
Lynn Wiatrowski and Joren C. Madsen, MD
Ellen and Peter Zane

$5,000-$9,999

Joan and Richard Aubut, RN
The Boston Foundation
Judy Swahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
Drs. Brad and Andrea Buchbinder
In memory of Frances and Jerry Gold
Howard Cohen and Myra Musicant
Ethan E. Crain
The Fischman Family
(Nancy and Steven, Ben and Wendy, Laura Fischman and Tony Schwenson)
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Ann-Ellen Hornidge, Esq., and Ned Murphy
Alison Poorvu Jaffe and Daniel Jaffe
Nancy and Richard Lubin
Thomas Lynch, Jr., MD, and Laura Pappano
Dick Marks and Jennifer Morrison
Joyce Murphy and Bill Melanson
Lisa and Bill Poorvu
Michael and Audrey Straight
Marilyn Yager

$1,000-$4,999

Anonymous (2)
Amanter Fund
Kristen and Konstantinos Andrikopoulos
Tina Aronson and Koby A. Rotstein
Lawrence and Adele Bacow
Deena and Michael Baker
Rich and Liz Bane
Nesli Basgoz, MD
Kenneth R. Berman
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Judy Brodkin
The Alan Keith Brodkin Memorial Foundation
Joseph A. Chazan, MD
Karen and Peter DeBlieux, MD
Tom and Midge DeSimone
Rich and Kris Doherty
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois
Elizabeth Floor
William P. Goldman and Brothers Foundation, Inc.
Amy and David Goldminz, MD
Brett and Abby Gordon
Barbara Guilfoile and Bernard Lebow
Elizabeth Hickman
Johnson – Schumacher Charitable Fund
Stephen Kidder and Judith Malone
Seth A. and Beth S. Klarman
Michele and Michael Klau
Jeffrey L. Kraines, MD
Sandra Y. Levine
Beth Lown, MD, and the Piken Family
Sarah Lukas
Christine Madigan and Stephen Callahan
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD
Richard McCready and Rosemary McCarthy
Robert Muffly and Carol Buckler
Cindy and Mitch Neider
Britain W. Nicholson, MD, and Celeste Robb-Nicholson, MD
Trideo
Jan and Stuart Rose
John Rudoy
David and Carol Ryan
Beth Sampath
Brenda and Jeff Sánchez
Richard and Ellie Scherr
Rhoda Schneider and Michael Marshall
Elouise Schumacher and John Johnson
Fredi and Jack Schonkoff
Steven and Karen Sisselman
Gabriela and Doug Smith, A Donor Advised Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust
John T. Szum
Tikoneli Charitable Gift Fund
Charlotte Yeh, MD, FACEP

$500-$999

Anonymous
Elissa B. Arons, MD
Arons Family Foundation
Jennifer Weber and Laurence Bailen
William and Blaire Bernard
Joan Feinberg Berns, PhD
Daniel Bleck
Lisa and Robert Cohen
Megan Daniels
Ila Davidoff
Kevin Driscoll
Donna Richman, MD, and Mike Ehrenberg
Ehrenberg Richman Family Charitable Fund
Heather Farley
Tom Gerlach and Leigh Stokes
Natalie and Barry Greene
Barry E. and Natalie T. Greene Family Foundation
Sally Jackson
Susan M. Kenyon
Bill and Deborah Knowlton
Marc Landry
Robin Lipson and Matt Fishman
Amy and Ken MacNulty
Tressa Miller Schwartz
Dan Wofford and Sarah Peck
Melinda Kimble and James Phippard
Marla and Cliff Robinson
Anne G. Romney and Timothy Hayes
Eric and Kim Schultz
Jill and Donald Shulman
Daniel and Collette Stanzler
Henry A. Sullivan
Robert I. Cohen and Julie A. Watts
Jeffrey Wolff, MD

$250-$499

Anonymous
Michele Babineau
Mimi Bartholomay
Catherine Bromberg
Abbie Celniker and Trevor Kaye, MD
Karin and George Cole
Walda Decreus
Valerie and Doug Fleishman
David and Nancy Fulton
Diane and Michael Gardener
Liz and Steven Goldstone
Marcia Hertz
Connie Howes and Kelly Sheridan 
Tisa Hughes
Stacy N. Jagher, LICSW
Betsy Frauenthal and David Kirshner
Kathryn Macdonell
Charlotte and Robert Oehman, Jr. 
Christina Parks and Andy Salomone
Miriam Pinon, DNP
Benjamin M. Romney, MD
Larry G. Rosenberg, PhD
Betsy Ross
Kim Shellenberger and Richard Balaban, MD
Lauren Stanzler
Matt and Morgan Stanzler
Deborah Thaxter and Bob Adkins
Ann Marie Thomas, MD
John Triedman
Ali Walsh
Marth and Jeff Winokur

Organization Donors

National Business Members

Chairman Circle

CRICO
Massachusetts General Hospital

Executive Circle

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Marsh McLennan

Leader Circle

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Benchmark Senior Living
Genesis HealthCare
MedPro Group
Point32Health, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

$100,000+

Massachusetts General Hospital
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo

$50,000-$99,999

AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
CRICO
Dorot Foundation
Highland Street Foundation

$25,000-$49,999

Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease
Beth Israel Lahey Health

$10,000-$24,999

American Hospital Association
Coverys
CVS Health
Hospice Foundation of Oklahoma
Janey Fund Charitable Trust
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Middleton & Company, Inc.

$5,000-$9,999

Beaumont Financial Partners
Boston Medical Center
The Colony Group
Commonwealth Care Alliance, Inc.
Hebrew SeniorLife
Ropes & Gray, LLP
Sánchez Strategies LLC
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital
State Street Corporation
Sunstein LLP
Verrill
Wellforce
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

$1,000-$4,999

Boston Financial Management, LLC
Cambridge Health Alliance
Colony Group LLC
Commonwealth Medicine
Dempsey, Lucey & Associates
FNZ Foundation, Inc.
Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
Massachusetts Society of Clinical Oncologists
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Mind Heart Now LLC
National Foundation for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Inc.
Rafanelli Events Management, Inc.
Pierce & Mandell, PC
Trideo

Up to $999

AARP Services, Inc.

In Memory Of

George Bekefi
Chaia Bekefi, MSW

Jill Bostder
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler
Ellen and Peter Zane

Kevin J. Forster
Chris and Al Rocco

Jerry and Frances Gold
Dr. Brad and Andrea Buchbinder

Jo E. Gordon
Gail Smith

Naomi Gordon
Ellen R. Cohen and Daniel Haber
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

Robert E. Gordon
Deborah and Robert Litt

Judith Haber
Wendy and Richard Cohen

Gregory Hall
Christine Madigan and Stephen Callahan

Linda Gail Kaplan
Jeffrey L. Kraines, MD

Barry Klenicki
Stacy Jagher, LICSW, and Justin Jagher

Christian Minard
Ruth Kilduff, RN, and Jay Carrigan

Laurie S. Naparstek, EdD
Ellen and Jay Naparstek

Margaret and Robert O’Neill
Robyn Begley, DNP

Ryan Plowman
Leah Rybarczyk, LCSW

Burton J. Polansky, MD
Faye Polansky

Madeline Poulin
Andrea Kelly, RN, and Tom Kelly

Dana Romney
Ben Romney, MD

Seymour L. Romney
Ben Romney, MD

Shirley G. Romney
Ben Romney, MD

Ellen Schumacher Rau
Twila Emry
Mary Jo Fourier, MD
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Elizabeth and Paul Haberman
Barbara Kuyper
Kathryn Lee
Jerrie Moffett
Barbara Schechter
Joseph Schmidt
Elouise Schumacher and John Johnson
Ledah Wilcox

Kenneth B. Schwartz
Carol Buckler and Robert Muffly
Judy Harding and Dick Chaisson, MD
Deborah and Robert Litt

Rochelle Slate
Wendy and Richard Cohen

Sherman H. Starr, Sr.
Tony and Kathy Starr
Julie Starr-Duker

Rosemarie Vallatini
Tina and Ed Montemagno

In Honor Of

Dr. Hasan Bazari
Nesli Basgoz, MD

Lara Grzyb Belliveau and Gary Belliveau
Lisabritt Solsky Stevens

Joan and Ed Carhart
Wendy Cohen and Richard Cohen

Liza Eaton and Adam Cohen and Family
Wendy Cohen and Richard Cohen

Ellen R. Cohen, MSW
Joan Berns, PhD
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Marla and Cliff Robinson

Lauren, Ian, Elle, Brady, and Cooper Cohen
Wendy Cohen and Richard Cohen

Wendy Cohen, LICSW
Tikoneli Charitable Gift Fund

Wendy and Richard Cohen
Ila Davidoff
The Barry E. and Natalie T. Greene Family Foundation
Andrew A. Hyman

Richard J. Doherty
Charles Doherty, Jr.

Fran and Michael Goldberg, MD
The Alan Keith Brodkin Memorial Foundation
Judy Brodkin
Joyce and Ron Della Chiesa
Ehrenberg Richman Family Charitable Fund

Jamie and Hagai Ovadia and Family
Wendy and Richard Cohen

Elizabeth Maringer and Jay Shiland
Peta Alexander, MBBS

Marjorie Stanzler
Linda Barrett
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Ellen R. Cohen and Daniel Haber
Ruth Lazarus and Michael Feldberg, Esq.
The Scherr Family Foundation

Paul E. Stanzler
Linda Barrett

Kathy and Tony Starr, Esq.
Tulman Family Charitable Fund
Kimberly and John Zwetchkenbaum Fund

Jeffrey S. Wisch, MD
Sarah Lukas, CPA and Neil Lukas

Champions of Compassion

Our Champions of Compassion are individual donors who have been contributing to the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare for at least half of our 26 years. They number only 5% of all of our individual donors, and we are truly honored by their loyal support!

Stuart and Diane Altman
Anonymous (5)
Elissa B. Arons, MD
Tina Aronson and Koby A. Rotstein
Michael J. Astrue and Laura W. Mali-Astrue
Charlie and Lauren Baker
Lauren Ansorge Ball
John F. Barry and Ellen R. Kelly Barry
Mimi Bartholomay
Eleanor A. Becker
Chaia Bekefi, MSW
Katherine A. Bennett and Edmund J. Prescottano
Terry G. Bergman
Samuel A. Berkman, MD, FACP
Dr. Harris A. Berman and Ruth Nemzoff
Joan Feinberg Berns, PhD
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Michael Blau and Ann Muschett
Patricia A. Bresky, PhD
Catherine Bromberg
Heidi Brown and Richard Moche
Drs. Brad and Andrea Buchbinder – In memory of Frances and Jerry Gold
Nancy L. Cahners
Abbie Celniker and Trevor Kaye, MD
Richard Chaisson, MD and Judith Harding
Andrea Cohen and Carl Zack
Barbara H. Cohen*
Carol Feinberg Cohen
Ellen Cohen and Daniel Haber
Howard Cohen and Myra Musicant
The Cohen/Vullo Family
Joyce Cohen and David B. Hellman
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Lois and Linc Cornell
Ethan E. Crain
Cynthia and Harvey Creem
Tom and Midge DeSimone
Jospeh and Donna DiPersio
Rich and Kris Doherty
Mark and Kate Donovan
Andrew Dreyfus
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois
Kitty and Mike Dukakis
Jay S. Duker and Julie Starr-Duker
Michael S. Feldberg and Ruth Lazarus
Mark Huberman and Stephanie G. Fidel
Steven Fischel and Lisa Plantefaber
The Fischman Family (Nancy and Steven, Ben and Wendy, and Laura Fischman and Tony Schwenson)
Robin Lipson and Matt Fishman
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Cynthia Frawley
Susan Frawley and Herb Luther
David and Nancy Fulton
Gary and Ethel Furst
Diane and Michael Gardener
Jody and David Gastfriend
Paul & Laurie Gershkowitz Family Charitable Trust Fund, a Donor Advised fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc.
Pamela P. Giannatsis
Andrew Gillies, MD, and Catherine Cahners
Connie Gilson
Joan and James Gilson
Leslie and Stan Godoff
Carol & Avram Goldberg, Joshua R. Goldberg, and Deborah Goldberg & Michael Winter
Deborah B. Goldberg and Michael Winter
Betty and Abby Gordon
Ellen Feldberg Gordon and Michael Gordon
Joan Gordon
Naomi Gordon*
Roger and Laura Gray
Barbara Rubin Green
Betty and Alan Green
Carolyn Greenberg and J. David Allred
Joseph Hameline
Scott and Leslie Hefter
Marcia Hertz
Ruth L. Hertz
Marc and Diane Homer
Murray A. Jacobson Family Foundation
Alison Poorvu Jaffe and Daniel Jaffe
Ellen Janos
Michael Joachim and Ellen Winer
Phil and Beverly Johnston
Susan M. Kenyon
Cameron F. Kerry and Kathy B. Weinman
Stephen Kidder and Judith Malone
Ruth Kilduff, RN, and Jay Carrigan — in memory of Christian Minard
Seth A. and Beth S. Klarman
Bill and Deborah Knowlton
Ruth G. Koblenzer
Barry and Laura Korobkin
Mary Kraft, MD
Jeffrey L. Kraines, MD
Jonathan and Janet Kravetz
Ronald V. Lacro and Jon P. Schum
Marilyn Lambert and John Lindstrom, Jr.
Mary Kay Leonard and Richard Valachovic
Bernard Leung
Mark, Becky and Samantha Levin
Steven and Marjorie Levin
Sandra Y. Levine
Linda and Jeff Levin-Scherz
Deborah and Robert Litt
Beth Lown, MD, and the Piken Family
Richard and Susan Lynch
Thomas Lynch, Jr., MD, and Laura Pappano
Amy and Ken MacNulty
Thomas F. Maloney, Esq.
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD
Dick Marks and Jennifer Morrison
Jameson and Polly Marvin
Claire and Cornelius Marx
Honor E. McClellan, PhD
Richard McCready and Rosemary McCarthy
Sharon and Brian McNally
Brooke and Eric Meltzer
Clare Midgley and Robert Leuchtner, PhD
Tressa Miller Schwartz
Evvajean Mintz
Andrew Dreyfus and Lynn Modell
Robert Muffly and Carol Buckler
Joyce Murphy and Bill Melanson
Ellen and Jay Naparstek
Joseph and Margaret Newhouse
Britain W. Nicholson, MD, and Celeste Robb-Nicholson, MD
The Novack Family
James J. O’Connell, MD
Sarah Pasternack, PhD
Peter and Mary Pendergast
Mary and Gary Pforzheimer
Ruth Piken*
Lia and William Poorvu
Robert and Brenda Popeo
John and Laura Eby Regier
Marla and Cliff Robinson
Anne G. Romney and Timothy Hayes
Benjamin M. Romney, MD
Carla A. Romney, MD, and Stuart M. Beard
Jan and Stuart Rose
Larry G. Rosenberg, PhD
Margie Ross Decter and Adam Decter
Sue Rothenberg*
Debra and Eric Ruder
Carmen and Susan Russo
Dorothy Renaghan and Anthony Santangelo
Doris and Simon Scheff
Bobbi and Phil Schmidt
Rhoda Schneider and Michael Marshall
Eric and Kim Schultz
Judith and Fred Server
Fredi and Jack Shonkoff
Jill and Donald Shulman
Michael Schwartz and Pam Goodman
Jean Karpas Siegel Fund at The Boston Foundation
Steven and Karen Sisselman
Gabriela and Doug Smith, A Donor Advised Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust
Gail Smith
Kimberly A. Smith and William Charette
Alison Sneider
Norman Spector
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler
Sandy Starr and Raine Figueroa
Sherman H. Starr*
Tony and Kathy Starr
Henry A. Sullivan
The Boston Foundation/Judy Sawahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
Dr. Samuel and Paula Thier
Jeanie Ungerleider and William Stone, MD
Clare Villari and David Weinstein
Ralph and Martha Wales
Kate Walsh and Erik Garpestad, MD
Wendy Warring, JD and Troy Brennan, MD
Mel and Harriet Warshaw
Robert I. Cohen and Julie A. Watts
Donald G. Cornuet and Stephen M. Weiner
Susan Whitehead
Lynn Wiatrowski and Joren C. Madsen, MD
Martha and Jeff Winokur
Philip Witman and Bonnie Perlmutter, PhD
Dan Wofford and Sarah Peck
Roni and Lawrence Woods
Marilyn Yager
Ellen and Peter Zane
Norman and Adelle Zimbel
Ellen L. Ziskind

Compassionate Caregiver Honor Roll

Caregivers Honored January 1, 2022 – January 1, 2023

More than 2,500 compassionate caregivers have been recognized since 2008 for their everyday acts of compassion by grateful patients and families who make a donation to the Schwartz Center in their name.

Peter A. Banks, MD
Minde Kornfeld

Jason Barrera, MD, PhD
Krista and Ed Keohane

Mimi M. Bartholomay, RN, MSN
Lucy Bartholomay and Edward Reiss

William Bennett, MD
Larry Rosenberg, PhD

Eugene V. Beresin, MD
Diane and Marc Homer, MD

Jason P. Block, MD, MPH
Martha Takayama

Eugene Boss, MD
Blaire and William Bernard

Ghizlane Charki
Anonymous

Marcia Clevesy 
Andrea Kelly, RN, and Tom Kelly

Brian Cohen, MD
Robert Shapiro

Karen Doyle, DNP
Joy Goldman, RN, MS, CPDC, PCC

Mary Fabio, MD
Tisa Hughes

Susan Frawley, RN
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton

Donna Gaffney
Lisa Philip, LCSW, MPH

Katie Garrigan
Valerie and Doug Fleishman

Lawrence J. Greenberg, MD
Bonnie and Larry Greenberg, MD

Munther Homoud, MD
Robert Shapiro

Fedna Jacques
Carol and Dave Ryan, MD

Rachel Jimenez
Lindsay Carter, MD

Shalom Kalnicki, MD
Randi Kaplan, LMSW

Elizabeth Lipford
Wilson Hood

Mary K. Maloney, RN
Mary Maloney, RN and Tom Maloney, Esq.

Dr. Robert Peterfreund
Theresa Morris

Lisa Philip, LCSW, MPH
Alice Cooper

May Pian-Smith, MD, MS
Theresa Morris

David P. Ryan, MD
Mara Bloom

Polina Sadikov, MD
Jeffrey Froelich

Timothy Shea
Lauren Stanzler

Marta Silva
Becky and Riley Newman, PhD

Frank Twarog, MD
Marian Girouard-Spino, RN, MSN, and Gary Spino

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