Sabre Foundation

Sabre Foundation, "founded in 1969, works to build free institutions and to examine the ideals that sustain them." According to their website:

"Its largest project makes millions of dollars’ worth of donated books available to needy individuals in developing and transitional societies worldwide through non-governmental partner organizations, libraries, universities, schools, research organizations and other similar institutions." [1]

In 2005, the Dinner Committee for their 35th Anniversary was chaired by John C. Whitehead. Pdf

• Tania Vitvitsky - Executive Director in 2005 at least

Funding (1994)

According to their 1994 Annual Report they received major funding from the following groups:

$100,000 and over

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• United States Information Agency

$25,000 and over

• Anonymous (1)
• William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.
• Eurasia Foundation (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• National Endowment for Democracy
• Alfred Strouts
• U.S. Agency for International Development (Ocean Freight Reimbursement)

Funding (2002)

According to their 2002 Annual Report they received major funding from the following groups:

$100,000 and over

• Books For Africa, MN
• Peace Corps, DC
• United States Department of State
• USAID Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program

$50,000 and over

• Ghana Book Trust, Ghana

$20,000 and over

• Anonymous
• B. Reuben Auspitz, NY
• Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
• William H. Donner Foundation, NY
• C. Boyden Gray, DC (1)
• Indiana University, IN

$10,000 and over

• Achelis Foundation, NY
• Asia Foundation, CA
• Kenneth G. Bartels, CT
• Center for Democracy & Free Enterprise, Czech Republic
• University of Michigan, MI
• Fred C. Robey Family Fund, GA
• Tanzania Book Support Trust, Tanzania
• Terre Sans Frontieres, Canada
• World Foundation of Ukrainian Medical Associations, MI

Directors

• Kenneth G. Bartels - President And Director, President, Paxton Properties Incorporated, New York, New York
• Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld - Vice President And Director, Managing Partner, Cabot Properties, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
• Thomas P. Conroy - Treasurer And Director, Vice President Of Sales, Marsh, Inc, Boston, Massachusetts
• Martin F. Oppenheimer - Assistant Treasurer And Director , Managing Director, Montgomery Investment Management, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland
• Charles Getchell - Secretary, Attorney At Law, Ipswich, Massachusetts
• John L. G. Archibald - Foreign Service Officer (Ret.), Boston, Massachusetts
• Leonard J. Baldyga - Director, Senior Consultant, International Research & Exchanges Board, Washington, D.C.
• Peter Baugher - Director, Partner, Schopf And Weiss, Chicago, Illinois
• Christopher T. Bayley - Director, Chairman, Stewardship Partners, Seattle, Washington
• Lee W. Huebner - Director, Director, School Of Media And Public Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• Jennifer Leaning - Director, Professor, School Of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• J. Eugene Marans - Director, Of Counsel, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Llp, Washington, D.C.
• Bruce Rabb - Director, Counsel, Kramer Levin Naftalis And Frankel Llp, New York, New York
• Stanley W. Stillman - Director , Access Publishing Company, Richmond, Virginia
• Susan Winthrop - Director, Instructor, Montserrat College Of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts

• Former Presidents: Thomas E. Petri, Michael F. Brewer, Burton C. Gray, J. Eugene Marans, Anne D. Neal
• Former Directors: K. Anthony Appiah, Josiah Lee Auspitz, Bruce K. Chapman, Michael W. Christian, William Clinger, T. J. Coolidge, Arthur M. Dubow, C. Boyden Gray, Anne Marie Marans, Anne D. Neal, Robert A. G. Monks, John Price, Peter J. Wallison, J. Jackson Walter.

Source

Advisory Committee (2005)

• Robert Amoako - Executive Director, Ghana Book Trust, Accra, Ghana
• Kwame Anthony Appiah - Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• Anthea Christian - Wellington, Florida
• Fred Coffey - Foreign Service Officer USIA (ret.), McLean, Virginia
• Christopher Crockett - Seacoast Capital Partners, Boston, Massachusetts
• Ellen Elliott - Former Board Member, National Peace Corps Association, San Francisco, California
• James Fabiani - Fabiani & Company, Washington, D.C.
• Elizabeth Falsey - Reader Services Librarian, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Theodore W. Friend III - Former President, Swarthmore College, President Emeritus, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc., Board of Advisors, U.S.-Indonesia Society, Villanova, Pennsylvania
• Kathleen F. Hempstone - Program Officer, U.S.-South Africa Leadership Development Program, Washington, D.C.
• Smith Hempstone - Retired Journalist, Former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Washington, D.C.
• Michael Hornblow - Foreign Service Officer (ret.), Washington, D.C.
• Robert Kowalczyk - Former Executive Director, Books for Africa, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• William A. Lindsay - Assistant Director and Chief Financial Officer, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Martin Linsky - Lecturer in Public Policy, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Alan L. Lucas - Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York
• Jay K. Lucker - Library Consultant, Former Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts
• Anne H. Margulies - Executive Director, OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Robert A. G. Monks - Chairman, The LENS Fund, Portland, Maine
• James F. Munsell - Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, New York
• Roman Procyk - Director, Ukrainian Studies Fund, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Charles Reafsnyder - Director, Center for International Education and Development Assistance, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• Andras Riedlmayer - Bibliographer, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• William B. Robertson - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Tampa, Florida
• Sandra Robinson - Former Africa Director, Peace Corps, Executive Director, Bureau of Rehabilitation, Inc., Lanham, Maryland
• Robert I. Rotberg - President, World Peace Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Mark Sidel - Professor of Law, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• Stanley Silverman - Former Comptroller, USIA, Arlington, Virginia
• Jeff Spurr - Curator, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Publications

• 1993 Annual Report

Contact

872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1 Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A.

Web: http://www.sabre.org