The board and staff would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those supporters who have given generously and shared their time and talents in 2017. Special thanks go to:

• Ruth Munden, for her dedicated support in our office
• National Charity League, for their support throughout the year
• Our recipient partner organizations, who facilitate our distribution of food
• David Saleh, Nancy Heselton, and Kristin Moore, who tend to our bees
• David Outerbridge, who tirelessly maintains our property
• Our loyal donors
• Middlesex School Ceramics Club, for donating money from the Empty Bowls progra
• Debra’s Natural Gourmet, for hosting a give-back day in our honor
• Belmont Day School, Fenn School, Nashoba Brooks School, and Thoreau School, participants in       our Read for Seeds program

Thank you to the following foundations who supported Gaining Ground in 2017:

• The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust
• The Amelia Foundation
• Boston Foundation—Trefler Foundation
• Cedar Tree Foundation
• The Charles Engelhard Foundation
• Concord-Carlisle Community Chest
• The Crawford Idema Family Foundation
• Clif Bar Family Foundation
• The Doe Family Foundation
• Faith and William Pautler Family Foundation
• Foundation for MetroWest
• The Garden Club of Concord
• Green Leaf Foundation
• M and T Charitable Foundation
• Maynard Community Chest
• Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation
• Nash Family Foundation
• Project Bread
• The Sudbury Foundation
• Trinitarian Congregational Church