American Library Association
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Beat Within
Nell Bernstein
Mark Bowden
California Shakespeare Theatre
Children’s Book Project
Chronicle Books
Cody’s Books
J. California Cooper
Daina Dickman
Richard Dry
Michael Eric Dyson
Stephen Elliot
Nikki Giovanni
Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers
Mike and Silvia Hughes
Steven Anthony Jones
Girls’ Justice Initiative
John Hubner
Ricky Jacobs
Niambi Jaha
Keith Knight
Laurel Books
Dr. Joseph Marshall/Street Soldiers
Terry McMillan
Dan Millman
Mary Monroe
Melissa Mytinger
Sister Helen Prejean
Amy Wilson
Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Tobias Wolff
Ernesto Quinonez
Luis Rodriguez
Susan L. Taylor
Ten Speed Press
Nichelle Tramble
Youth Speaks
Youth Uprising
Ayelet Waldman
Writer’s Corp
Zlata Filipovic

Alameda County Department of Probation
Alameda County Office of Education
Bonners Americorp Program
Children’s Support League of the East Bay
East Bay Community Fund
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Charitable Fund
Northern California Children’s Bookseller’s Association
Philanthropic Ventures
Poets & Writers
President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities
Reading Is Fundamental
San Francisco Foundation
Target Corporation

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