Oviedo Community News is free to read because we believe that local information is a right, not a privilege. But it’s not free to produce.
Professional journalists, copy editors and fact checkers, designers and more create this product that tens of thousands of Greater Oviedo and Winter Springs residents have come to rely on.
The folks below believe in our mission and have made generous donations to fund this initiative. Consider joining this growing group and support local news!
Thank you to OCN’s major donors
Stephen McKenney Steck Legacy League
($6,000 annually or $500/month)
Desta Horner
Master Crowing Club
($3,000 annually or more)
Megan Stokes
Golden Rooster Society
($1,200 annually or $100/month)
Jenny and Isaac Babcock
Annie J. Gavin
Thank you to OCN’s grantors
Oviedo Community News has received monetary grants of $5,000 or less from:
- The Google News Initiative
- The Miami Foundation’s Fund for Nonprofit News (NewsMatch)
- The Institute for Nonprofit News
- Indigraf
OCN received grants exceeding $5,000 from:
- Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers: $6,000
- The Miami Foundation’s Fund for Nonprofit News (NewsMatch): $13,553
Thank you to our founding members!
Oviedo Community News has received contributions of $5,000 or less from nearly 180 individual Founding Members.
Asterisk: Sustainer (monthly donor)
Bold: Gave $5,000 or more
- Megan Stokes*
- Jenny and Isaac Babcock*
- Jonathan Gallagher
- Jeannine Cline
- Neil Atkinson
- David Shine*
- Bob Miller
- MaryAnn Andreasson*
- Megan Sladek
- Dorian Beaupierre
- Robert King
- Natalie Teuchert*
- Bob Putnam
- Fran Mullin
- Jennifer Ferrell
- Julia Willcoxon
- Michelle Rubiera-Perez
- Rebekah Robson
- Tavo Mendez*
- Bert Miller*
- Bettie Miller*
- John Thomas
- Lori Knowles
- Judith Minter
- Nicole Moberg
- Dennis Andreasson
- Richard Sloane
- Caroline Andreasson
- Marlene Haegele
- Kerry McRae
- Marilyn Willmino
- Carl Knickerbocker
- Dennis Dulniak
- Christa lira
- Kim Botner
- Ken Crossland
- Chris Jepson
- Kevin Cannon
- Alex Babcoc
- Oviedo Historical Society*
- Paul and Vonessa Wenzel
- Thomas and Lynn Holstein
- Cathy Mannion
- Laura Leigh Wood
- David Maze
- Autumn Garick
- Gerald Holst
- Maria Siracuse*
- Richard Baringer*
- Helen Clarke*
- Desta Horner
- Joe Thoma
- Mary Cibulsky
- Elite Boxing Youth Champs, INC
- Ryan Sanderson
- James Labarge
- Stacey Schaitz
- John Thomas
- Dawn Jensen
- Mirtha Molinet
- Randall Johnson
- Lynell Pacey
- Adam Hensley*
- Corey Ward
- Christine Schneider
- Cindy Streeter
- Anthony Ludwig
- William Myers
- Kathleen Carmichael
- Adam Branvold
- Martha Damiani
- Your Brand Voice
- Dennis Dulniak
- Martha McKey
- Robert Maret
- Louis Atti
- Gerald Holst
- Alice Raibourn
- Marlene Haegele
- Patricia Leal
- Sandra Nation
- Jamie Hayne
- Paul Finnegan
- Tammy Komoff
- Karen McClellan
- David Odahowski
- Ida Boston
- David Darling
- David J. Enright
- David Williamson*
- Jennifer Durham
- Rick Barringer*
- Helen Clarke*
- The Black Baud Giving Fund
- Bryan Thomas
- Steve Harper
- Gene Rodriguez*
- Louis Nimkoff
- Carmen Mijangos
- Christa Lira
- Marcie Gumieny
- Thomas Nixon
- Qian Wang
- George Harris
- Joel Engelhardt
- Marianna Stronko
- Felix Ayala
- Brenda Raza
- Barbara Phares
- Thomas Nixon
- Karen Harris*
- Chris Myers
- Adam Collins
- Katlyn Segreto
- Dennis Dulniak
- Patricia Grant
- Dorothy Wittenberg
- Nicole Moberg
- Juanita Blumberg
- Tom Indrunas
- Renata Hill
- Kathleen Densberger
- Shirley Schlinger
- Michael Cohen
- M.J. Cordier
- Elaine Diaz
- Phyllis Milmore
- Melissa Haynie
- Karen Guin
- Michael Lupton
- Michael Banigan
- Scott Sargent
- Stephanie Kyle
- Paul Sladek
- Colette Cadwell
- Laura Capp
- Michael and Tracy Kochmann
- Shannon Skinn
- Ted Johnson
- Art Gallo
- Yolanda Rivera
- John Pachler
- Richard Lee
- Stilyana Salakova
- Jennifer Cheshire
- Jessica Malchow
- Wendy Acha
- Janet Klein*
- Abigail Dolbear*
- Lynne Smith*
- Arthur Davis*
- Jean Green*
- Katrina Scales*
- Naseem Miller*
- Liz Leatherwood*
- Nancy Borck
- Jovanna Nelson
- Marilyn Wolf*
- Barbara Nixon*
- Janet Klein
- Alice Bamberger
- Lisa McCoy
- Deborah McLaughlin
- Steve Larew
- Sibyl Morgan
- Bonnie Harrison
- Donald Cross (Don)
- Darlene Smellie
- Jim Yde
- Katrina Scales
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- Leigh Tepper
- James McCullough
- Gretchen Hyde
- Paul and Dorothy Wittenberg
- Marsha Bullinger
- Alice Raibourn