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Heartland Working Group and Foundation Sponsors

Sponsors of the Heartland Project
The Heartland Network thanks the following foundations and institutions for funding the Heartland Project and 1999 Conference: Ford, Rockefeller, Charles Stewart Mott and McKay Foundations and the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, United Church of Christ and Senator Jay Costa and the SVA Regional Jobs Corporation. In addition, the Network thanks the United Steelworkers of America and numerous institutions and individuals who made significant in-kind contributions to the project.

Heartland Working Group
The Network also thanks its remarkable Working Groupand, especially, its’ Working Group Co-chairs, for coordinating and guiding the progress of the Heartland Project. Working together for almost five years, the Heartland Working Group was instrumental in moving the discussion of a labor capital strategy forward within national and regional labor bodies, among varied activist communities and non-labor interested constituencies.

Chairman
Leo W. Gerard
International Secretary-Treasurer, USWA AFL-CIO/CLC

Project Director
Tom Croft
Executive Director, SVA

CO-Chairs, Research/Policy Task Force
Tessa Hebb Consultant, Hebb and Associates

Joel Rogers
Center on Wisconsin Strategies

CO-Chairs, Regional Network
Rich Feldman Director, Workers Center of King County, AFL-CIO

Sherman Kreiner
President and CEO, Crocus Fund

CO-Chairs, Communications/Education Committee
Tom Schlesinger
Director, Southern Finance Project

Theresa Ghilarducci
Dept. of Economics, University of Notre Dame University

Additional Members

Dean Baker
Economic Policy Institute

Randy Barber
President, Center for Economic Organizing

Ron Bloom
Special Asst. to the Int. Pres., USWA

Ron Brown
Attorney, Lucchino Law Firm

Brad Burton
Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO

Ken Delaney
CEO, First Ontario Fund

Neil Gladstein
Economist, International Association of Machinists

Eugene Keilin
Keilin and Company

Catherine Baker Knoll
Former Treasurer, State of Pennsylvania

David Landenwitch
Chartered Financial Analyst
AFL-CIO Bldg. Investment Trust

Mark Levinson
Chief Economist, UNITE

Regina Markey
AFL-CIO Housing and Building Investment Trusts

Melissa Moye
Economist, AFSCME.

William Patterson
Director, Office of Investment, AFL-CIO

Kim Arthur Siegfried
Assistant to the International Secretary-Treasurer, USWA

The Network also thanks the many additional individuals who participated in this project as members of the Task Forces, colloquia, and 1999 conference. They included additional progressive business, academic, finance, labor, and religious leaders from the U.S., Canada and Europe.