Serving children from the New Haven, CT community on the campus of The Foote School

Laura Altshul Joy of Learning Fund

Laura Altshul was a lifelong educator and advocate for educational equity. For 20 years, she brought excitement and creativity to the lives of countless kindergartners at the Foote School, helping them discover a love of reading and a thirst to learn. Laura walked the walk; she felt strongly that that love should be shared with students throughout New Haven, no matter their circumstances. In 1996, together with her colleague, Saylor Heidmann, she co-founded FooteBridge, the literacy program that would become Horizons at Foote in 2014. As our founding Board Chair, Laura led Horizons with grace, strength, and an aspiration to give back to her community.

Many of Laura’s friends, family, neighbors, students, colleagues and allies have chosen to honor her legacy by supporting Horizons at Foote. These gifts, and those given in her honor to Raise Every Voice in 2022, establish this multi-year restricted fund.

If you would like to make a gift to the Laura Altshul Joy of Learning Fund, click here or mail a check made out to "Horizons at the Foote School" to Horizons at Foote ATTN: Christina MacLean, 50 Loomis Place, New Haven CT 06511, including the name of the fund in your letter or check memo.

Donors to the Laura Altshul Joy of Learning Fund

Jody Abzug and Jim Irzyk
Ben Allison
Mary Alsop
Charlotte Anastasio
Kimberley Anderson
Stephen L. Altshul Foundation*
Bethany [Schowalter] Appleby and Nicholas Appleby
Diane Ariker
Evelyn Atreya
Rosemary Balsam and Paul Schwaber
Patricia and Andrew Balter
Megan Belt
Alice Bers and John Baick
Susan and Victor Bers
Judy Brennan
Mary Jo Brownell
Linda Burt
Jeannette Byers
MaryBeth and Andrew Calderoni
Amy Caplan
Francine Caplan
Windy Chen
Karen Ciosek
Annie Clark
Cecie Clement
Connecticut Poetry Society
Dody Osborne Cox and Jay Cox
Peter and Lucy Cox
Bobby Alter and Lisa de Lima
Bill and Jane Dennett
Elaine Dove
Jackie Downing
Ray Fair
Dawn Farricielli
Lynn and Rich Gabbard
Jack and Harriet Fast
Edith Flagg
Terry S. Flagg
William and Deborah Friedman
Patricia and Anthony Fusco
Lynn and Rich Gabbard
Frank and Mary Gerlach
Charles and Maria Granquist
Bill Graustein
Daniel Leventhal and Lindsey Grieve
Saylor Heidmann
Ann Coleen Hellerman
Cathryn Hendon
Ruth Hoberman
Ali Hokin and Glenn Levin
Francie Irvine and Andrew McLaren
Susan Kerley

Camille Brown Koff and Jon Koff
David Linhart and Yaminette Diaz Linhart
Cathy Moon Holinger
Nick and Jean Lamont
Patty Langdon
John Leventhal and Beverly Hodgson
Richard and Jane Levin
Yaminette Diaz Linhart and David Linhart
Ellen Liquindoli
Christine Lovejoy
Christina and Kenneth MacLean
Hugh and Nancy Manke
Marc and Margaret Mann
Nancy and David Manning
Wendy Marans
Kathleen McIntosh and James Curry
Hank and Sally Mixsell
Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation*
Araceli Moreno
Nancy Moss-Racusin
Cheryl and Geoff Nadzam
Sara Ohly
Anne Olcott
Gregory Pepe and Ann Baker Pepe
Carol and Wesley Poling
Carolyn Post
Paula and Richard Resch
Barry and Joan Richter*
Helen Riviere
RJ Julia Booksellers
The Sassafras Foundation*
Catherine and Robert Sbriglio
Schleifer Family Foundation
The Seedlings Foundation*
Jimmy and Barbara Segaloff
Sue Shaw
Betsy Sledge
Harold Spitzer
Ginger Stevens May
David and Lisa Totman
Peter Ulisse and Sheila Anderson
Erika Villa
Charles and Dinny Wakerley
Bonnie Welch
Talbot Welles
Betty and Jim Whitney
Annie Woodhull
Nancy Worms
Kiran Zaman and Sabooh Mubbashar
Marc and Jan Zuckerman
Yale Medicine

*These partners established the original Laura Altshul Raise Every Voice Fund in her honor by sponsoring our first Raise Every Voice event in Laura's honor in April 2022.