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Campaigns

Campaign donor circles and history-support gifts helped the Academy carry long-form codification work forward.

Giving Circles

Campaigns, individual contributors, and history support

The Simillimum Campaign and the Hippocrates Circle name two circles of support that helped sustain the Academy’s work. Alongside them are history-directed gifts that helped preserve the profession’s historical record.

Together they show how scholarship, memory, and long-range professional work have been carried not only by ideas, but by people willing to stand behind them.

Second and Third Tiers

Campaigns, individual contributors, and history support

This section brings together named campaign circles, individual contributors, history-directed gifts, and in-kind support.

Simillimum Campaign

Individual contributors and campaign friends

  • Robert & Pauline Baumann, ND
  • Jane Birchard, ND
  • Cynthia Bye, ND
  • Beebe Derrick Trina Doerfler, DC, ND
  • Julianne Forbes, ND
  • Amber Golshani, ND
  • Lucy Gonda
  • Rachelle Herdman, ND, MD
  • Verna Hunt, BSc, DO, ND
  • William J. Keppler, PhD
  • Thomas & Christine R. Grontkowski, PhD
  • Pacific BioLogic (Kurt Jacquot, ND)
  • Stephen King, ND & Cheryl Kipnis, ND
  • Thomas Kruzel, ND
  • Glenda Laxton, ND
  • Kristina Lewis, ND and Eric Lewis, ND
  • Natural Health Clinic
  • Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examination
  • Roger Newman Turner, ND, DO, BAc
  • North West Naturopathic Physicians Convention (Todd Farnsworth, ND)
  • Joseph E. Pizzorno, ND
  • Kenny Rifkin, ND
  • John Robinson, ND
  • Cristina Romero-Bosch, ND
  • David Schleich, PhD
  • Laura Shelton, ND
  • Mitch Stargrove, ND, LAc & Lori Stargrove, ND
  • Don Warren, ND
  • Bradley West, ND
  • Connie G. Zarndt, ND
  • Jared Zeff, ND, LAc

Hippocrates Circle

Individual contributors with gifts of $5,000 or more

  • Lynn Voortman, ND
  • David Tallman, DC, NMD
  • Gerald Farnsworth, ND
  • Jim Massey, ND & Karen Massey
  • The Mitchell Family
  • Turner’s Naturopathic Dispensary
  • Winnipeg Naturopathic Clinic

History Grants

Directed historical support

  • Modern Naturopathic History Research — Gift: Anonymous Friend

In-Kind Gifts

In-kind support

In-kind gifts belong to the Academy’s wider support story alongside campaign donors, history gifts, and named circles of contribution.

Support as Relationship

Gifts that help scholarship become durable

There is something quietly moving here. It is not trying to impress. It is simply naming the people and institutions who stood behind a demanding body of work.

Together with the grants and partners pages, it reveals another form of support that helped the work endure.

Where To Next

Support, partners, and people

Campaigns are only one part of the Academy’s support story. Friends, foundations, fellowships, partners, and contributors all help explain how the work has endured.