Our Mission
Heyday Institute occupies a unique niche in the publishing world, specializing in books that foster an understanding of California history, literature, art, environment, social issues, and culture. Our commitment is to enhance California's rich cultural heritage by providing a platform for writers, poets, and other artists, scholars, and storytellers who help keep this diverse legacy alive. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving a wide range of people and audiences, with a commitment to providing a platform for those who help keep California's diverse literary legacy alive. Heyday publishes books of quality and distinction that promote the cultural and natural landscape of California, emphasizing voices of previously unheard authors and artists, as well as overlooked geographic regions, to more fully present the state's literary wealth.
We also sponsor over 250 events a year (including readings, panels, exhibitions, lectures, etc.) to promote our books and our authors, often in partnership with many other cultural and educational organizations. To find out more about our events, please visit our Events page.
History of Heyday Institute
Heyday Institute was founded by Malcolm Margolin in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed The East Bay Out, a quirky, personal, affectionate guide to the natural history of the hills and bayshore around Berkeley and Oakland. Out of this modest first effort a major California cultural enterprise has taken shape. Heyday Books publishes around twenty-five books a year, founded two successful magazines--News from Native California and Bay Nature--and has taken a lead role in dozens of prominent public education programs throughout the state.
Our thirtieth anniversary in 2004 marked a great change for Heyday Books: the independent publisher merged with its nonprofit wing, Clapperstick Institute, to become Heyday Institute, completing its transition to a full-fledged 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise. For a list of our funders and supporters, please see our donors.
If you would like to find out more about how you can support Heyday Institute--and receive lots of terrific benefits--please visit our Friends of Heyday page.
Our Partnerships
From the start, Heyday has worked in partnership with many of California's leading cultural organizations. We cofounded California Historical Society Press with the California Historical Society and together have published several distinguished books. Heyday also has produced books in conjunction with the California Council for the Humanities; the California State Library; the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley; the Oakland Museum of California; the Commonwealth Club of California; Santa Clara University; the California Academy of Sciences; the Japanese American National Museum; the Yosemite Association; and many others.
Working with the California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University, we produce our California Legacy series, which serves to preserve and promote our state's literary and cultural heritage. Our books on the Inland Empire focus on the inland region of southern California, and we recently formed a partnership with the Inlandia Institute at the Riverside Public Library. Our Great Valley Books imprint promotes wide appreciation of the diverse Central Valley. In 2008, we began publishing books on Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada for the Yosemite Association.
Heyday's Board of Directors
Michael McCone, Chairman
Barbara Boucke
Peter Dunckel
Karyn Y. Flynn
Theresa Harlan
Leanne Hinton
Nancy Hom
Susan Ives
Bruce Kelley
Marty Krasney
Guy Lampard
Katharine Livingston
R. Jeffrey Lustig
Lee Swenson
Jim Swinerton
Lisa Van Cleef
Lynne Withey
Thanks to Our Donors
We are grateful for the generous funding we've received for our publications and programs during the past year from foundations and individual donors. Major supporters include:
M. Kat Anderson; Anonymous; Sara Armstrong and Robert Burger; John F. Atwood; James and Rebecca Austin; Judith and Phillip Auth; Ed Bagley; Diana Meyers Bahr; Schuyler and Susie Bailey; Bob Baldock and Kathleen Weaver; Robert and Shirlaine Baldwin; Kristine Ball; Mary Beth Barber; Bettina T. Barrett; Alice Bartholomew; Christina N. Batt; Maurice Bazin; Stephen and Beverly Becker; Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz; Cindy Beeshligaii; Joan and Robert Benedetti; Robert and Susan Benedetti; Ralph Benson; Barbara and Fred Berensmeier; Judy Berg; Peter Berg; Richard Bermack; Joan Berman; Howard Bern; Seymour and Annette Bird; Jon and Zoe Borkowski; Lisa Bostwick and Susan Schippmann; Barbara Boucke; Philip and Jamie Bowles; Peter Boyer and Terry Gamble; Nicola Boynoff; Gray A. Brechin and Robert Chleowski; David Brown and Lowell Brook; Lois Brown; Joseph Bruchac; Christopher Buckley; Peter and Mimi Buckley; Thomas Buckley; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Butler; Lewis and Sheana Butler; Ernest Callenbach and Christine Leefeldt; Joanne Campbell; Robert and Gae Canfield; John and Mary Caris; Richard L. Carrico; John and Nancy Cassidy Family Foundation, through Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Jane Henning Childress; Edward Church; Pamela Clark; Pat Cody; Diana Cohn; Margaret Conkey; Deborah Cook; Raymond Cook; Lawrence Crooks; Kathleen Croughan; Claire Cummings; Anna Darden; William and Jeanette Davis; Shelly Davis-King; Donald Day; Barbara Dean; Elaine Dempsey; Reid and Peggy Dennis; Mollie Dent and George Pettit; Sandra Dijkstra; Barbara Dillow; Patricia A. Dixon; Robert Dodge; Mike Doherty; Daidie Donnelley; Marina Drummer; Peter and Jeanette Dunckel; Dolan Eargle; Michael Eaton; Robert and Julie Edwards; Ida Rae Egli; Donald and Janice Elliott, in honor of David Elliott, through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Ned Engle; Lisa Eriksen and John Davey; Deanna Espina; David A. Evans; Peter Everwine; Phyllis Faber; Justin F. Farmer; Carolyn and Tim Ferris; Mark and Tracy Ferron; Denise Ferry; Steve Fjeldsted; Wendel Robert Flint; Judith Anne Flynn; Karyn and Geoffrey Flynn; Lee Follett; Mark Forry and Frances Hatfield; Helena Foster; Jim Foster; Lorraine Frazier; Kathryn and Bill Freeman; George Gamble; Ledonna Garbani; Deborah Garcia; Christian Gerike and Suzanne Stewart; Jeanne M. Gloe; Betty Goerke; Karen Goldberg; Patrick Golden; Nicola W. Gordon; Donna Graves; Wanda Lee Graves and Stephen Duscha; John Gray; Karen Matsu Greenberg and Family; Pauline Grenbeaux; Melinda Ramirez Griesbach; Susan Griffin-Black; Judith and Richard Guggenhime; Marilyn R. Guida; David Guy; Nik and Jennifer Haas-Dehejia; Kenji Hakuta and Nancy Goodban; Jane Haladay; James and Coke Hallowell; Susan and Charles Halpern; Virginia Hammerness; Susan Hanks; Shigeyoshi Hara; Harold Harby; Theresa Harlan; Michael Harner; Jane and David Hartley; Elizabeth Hazard; Kevin and Elizabeth Hearle; Bill Helmer; Anne Helms; Hal Hershey; Karin Higa; Kat High; Bonnie Hill; Carla Hills and Frank LaPena; Gerald and Jennifer Hirsch, in honor of Claire Peeps; Richard Hitchcock; Sandra Hoben and Allan Goodman; Sandra and Chuck Hobson; Pat Holt; Jane Holzmann, in honor of Dorothy Martinez; Nancy Hom; Michael H. Horn; Carolyn Horsman; Sheila and Michael Humphreys; Chris Hunt; Susan Ives; Ira Stuart Jacknis; Elisabeth and Howard Jaffe; Anne Jennings; Tisa Jewell; Jerald Jay Johnson; Thomas Johnson; Joanne Kamiya; Richard Kampa; Maggie Kaplan; Matthew Kelleher; Bruce and Susan Kelley; Chris and Karla Kelly; W. Keluchie; Charles Kennard; Stephen Kessler; Clara Sue Kidwell; Destiny Kinal; Betty Kipp; Philip M. Klasky; Janice B. Klein; Henry and Karen Koerper; Prudy Kohler; Marty and Pamela Krasney; Paul Vincent Kroskrity; Robert and Karen Kustel, in honor of Bruce Kelley; Guy Lampard and Suzanne Badenhoop; David Larsen; Ibuki H. Lee; Bernard and Josie LeRoy; Leslie and Jacques Leslie; Stacey Lewis ; Kent Lightfoot and Roberta Jewett; John Littleton; Katharine Livingston; Pamela and W. James Lloyd; Frank Lobo; Susan Lobo; Tsianina Lomawaima, in memory of Hartman Lomawaima; Nora Lopez; Wendy Ruiz Wayland Lucas; Suzanne Lummis; R. Jeffrey Lustig; Steve and Linda Lustig; Nicholas Magalousis; Johnny Ngip Mah; Linda Maio; Stephanie Manning; Malcolm Margolin; Dorothy Martinez, in honor of Jane Holzmann; Hiroko and William Mattsson; John Mayberry and Francesca Kress; Libby Maynard; Michael McCone; Nini McCone; Peggy McCullough; Ray McDevitt; Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman; Craig and Janet McGarvey; Sylvia McKenzie; LeRoy R. McLaughlin; Sylvia C. McLaughlin; Thomas McLaughlin; John Mecklenberg; Marty Meeden, in memory of Carmen G. Jones; William Miesse; Frederic Millen; Adam David Miller; Jerry and Ellen Miller; Bill and Connie Milligan; Teresa Montgomery and David Kennedy; Winston W. Montgomery and Margaret D. Nelson; Ruth Moore; Michael J. Moratto, in memory of Margaret Molarsky; Anne Morgan; Mary and Joe Morganti; Barbara and Harold Morris; Margery Moseley and Al Huneke; Sigward Moser; Harriet Moss; Stephen Most; Ibrahim and Jane Muhawi; Cicely Muldoon; Peter Nabokov; Melissa Nelson; Sarah E. Newton; Steve Nielsen; Steven Nightingale and Lucy Blake; Stephen O'Neil; Emilie and Doug Ogden; Richard Orsi; Julie and Will Parish; Elizabeth Partridge; Rondal and Elizabeth Partridge; Robert and Rosemary Patton; Anissa Paulsen; Pease Family Fund, in honor of Bruce Kelley; Jeremy Peconom and Sage LaPena; Elizabeth Irwin Perry; Robyn G. Peterson; Ralph Petty; Lauris Phillips; Stephanie Pincetl and Jonathan Katz; Leonard Pitt; Norman Porter; Mary and Adrian Praetzellis; James and Caren Quay; Polly M. Quick; John and Frances Raeside; Carmen Ramirez; Shirley Ramirez; William H. Rathbun; James Rawls; RedBear; Charles and Roberta Reed; Donna Mae Rickard; Robin Ridder; Rhonda A. Rios Kravitz; Barbara Risling; Elizabeth River; Richard and Nancy Robbins; Lennie and Mike Roberts; Mark and Heather Roberts; David Robertson; Mary Jean Robertson; Rebecca L. Robles; Wendy Rockett; Alexandra Rome; Stephen and Emma Root, in honor of Elaina Celine's birth; Jeffrey L. Rose and Simona Dumitru-Rose; Ed Rosenthal; Michael Rosenthal and Marleen Roggow; Alan Rosenus; Peter Joseph Rosenwald; Sylvia Ross; Lester B. Rowntree; Frank Rubenfeld and Susan Meller; Alan Salazar; Deborah Sanchez; Georgiana Valoyce Sanchez; Samantha Sanderson and Charles Cammack; Mel and Susan Sandholm; Tom and Barbara Sargent; Ananda Modh Sattwa; Marianne Schonfisch; Peter Schrag; Frank and Paula Schultz; Melinda Seaman; Contee and Maggie Seely; Tom and Marjorie Sennett; Fred Setterberg and Ann Van Steenberg; Sandy Shapero; Daniel Sheehy; William Shipley; Donna Shoemaker; Diane and Roger Shott; Thomas and Suzanne Silk; Dan and Charlene Simmons; William Simmons; Jane and Tom Singer; Marlene Smith-Baranzini; Sherrie Ann and David Smith-Ferri; Chuck and Barbara Snell; Susan Snyder and Richard Neidhardt; Annie Somerville and Zach Stewart; Carla Soracco and Donna Fong; Barbara Jean Spear; Martha Stampfer; Robert Stebbins; Charles and Tracy Stephenson; Laurie Stoelting; Lee Swenson and Vijaya Nagarajan; Roselyne Chroman Swig; James B. Swinerton; Joe and Margie Talaugon; Mary and Tom Tanner; MaryLou Taylor; Nikola Tede and Joseph Ferraro; Gladys Thacher; Sylvia and Robert Thalman; Max Thelen Jr.; Lisa Van Cleef and Mark Gunson; Patricia Wakida; Cindy Wathen; Marion Weber; Albert and Susan Wells; Debra Wetherby Fund; David and Barbara Whitridge; Kathryn Wild; Mary Williams and Peter Elias; Jane Willsea; David S. Wilson; Christy Wise; Lynne Withey; Lisa Woodward; Robert Woolley and Tehan Carey; Susan Wyle; Stan Yogi and David Carroll; Erik and Jennifer Zaborsky; and Glenda Zanone-Burak.
