Patrons

Achieving excellence in Canada is our mission. Are you interested in becoming one of the culturally engaged people who participates in The Excelsis Group’s enriching and informative programs?

Are you one of the optimistic Canadians who understand their support is crucial to endeavours like ours? Your support is what enables The Excelsis Group’s programs, public engagements and events, and community interactions – all of which sustains a forum for smart, thoughtful, intelligent conversation on vital cultural matters.

If you are a committed and forward-thinking individual, then please join us, and all the people who share our belief in the value of writers, artists, ideas, and new ways of thinking that are essential to a better understanding of our country and ourselves.

By donating, you will join our Membership Community. Become one of the Friends of Exile and participate in the future of The Excelsis Group for many years to come.

To make a one time, monthly, or multi-year donation, please click Donate

Become a supporter at a level comfortable for you:

$10 to $99 – Hug
$100 to $499 – Friend
$500 to $999 – Supporter
$1,000 to $2,499 – Associate
$2,500 to $4,999 – Sustaining
$5,000 to $9,999 – Leadership
$10,000 to $14,999 – Principal
$15,000 and up – Excelsior
(A charitable tax receipt will be provided at all levels of donation.)

Founding Patrons:

Atwood, Oates, Cronenberg, Michaels, Vanderbilt

Gloria Vanderbilt (artist, author, philanthropist)
Nona Macdonald Heaslip (philanthropist)
Gilles and Julia Ouellette (Ouellette Family Foundation)
Margaret Atwood (author)
Joyce Carol Oates (author)
David Cronenberg (auteur)
Mark and Andrea Daniels (Ignite the Spark Foundation)
David Lampe (poet, professor emeritus)
Anne Michaels (poet/novelist)
Anna Porter (former publisher and author)
Charles Pachter (painter and entrepreneur)
George Elliott Clarke (distinguished poet)
KOBO Canada (leader in digital technologies)
Peter Budd (entrepreneur)
Diane Keating (author)
Linwood Barclay (author)
Jack Diamond (architect)
David Staines (academic and editorial advisor)

Inaugural Patrons:

Michael and Anne Cramer
Stanley and Marisa Fefferman
Frank Westcott
Stephen Bulger
Darlene Madott
F.M. Morrison
Kathy Lee and Roman Doroniuk
John McKellar
Margaret Keating
Beverly McGhee
Earle Toppings
Ken Fried
Richard Murphy
Roger Greenwald
Wanda Nowakowska and Christopher Adamson
Robert McCallum
David Day
Martha Bátiz and Edgar Tovilla
MT Kelly
Natalka Hussar
Odida T. Quamina
Gertrude Stein
Katarina French

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