About Us

The Campaign to Save the Golden Gate Park Windmills is a public and private fundraising campaign spearheaded by a group of concerned citizens to restore the two windmills located at the western end of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and develop the area into a new San Francisco destination for education and recreation.

   
North Windmill Vanes. Image by Christopher Werby of Pipsqueak Productions, LLC The Executive Committee
  • Don Propstra, Committee Chair
  • Michael Ellzey, Vice Chair
  • Hendrika Neys, Vice Chair
  • Natasha Yankoffski, Secretary
  • Mariska Henneberque, Treasurer
Honorary Committee
  • Don Propstra, Chairman
  • Mayor Gavin Newsom
  • Brent Assink, Executive Director, San Francisco Symphony
  • Val Diamond, Actress & Singer
  • Douglas Engmann, Honorary Consul General, The Netherlands
  • Senator Dianne Feinstein
  • Robert Charles Friese, Esq., Community Volunteer
  • Stanlee Gatti
  • Yomi Agunbiade, Interim General Manager, Department of Recreation & Park
  • Assemblyman Mark Leno
  • Carole Migden, Chair, Board of Equalization
  • Gloria Bonilla, Head Commissioner, Department of Recreation & Park
  • Hendrika Neys, Frank Campini Foundation
  • Senator Jackie Speier
  • The Honorable Boudewijn van Eenennaam, Ambassador of the Netherlands
  • Lucas Verbij, Verbij Hoogmade BV - Windmill Restoration
  • Assemblyman Leland Yee
 

Project Partners

  • Bloemendal Construction Company
  • California Coastal Conservancy
  • Carey & Company
  • City & County of San Francisco,
  • Department of Recreation & Park and Department of Public Works
  • Exploratorium
  • Ex'pression Center for New Media
  • M D Fotheringham Landscape Architects
  • Landis Communications
  • Marchpartners, Planning & Fund Development
  • Museum Management Consultants
  • The Randall Museum
  • San Francisco Conservation Corps
  • SF Environment, City Department of the Environment
  • Sterry Architecture
  • Tennebaum-Manheim Engineers
  • Verbij Hoogmade BV

Major investors include:

  • City & County of San Francisco
  • California Coastal Conservancy
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • Lane-Propstra Family
  • Frank Campini Foundation
  • William Irwin Charity Fund
  • 1772 Foundation
  • Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Costello
  • Mr. Douglas Engmann
  • Elizabeth & Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
  • Mrs. Jeannik M. Littlefield
  • Pritzker Family Foundation
  • Koret Foundation
  • ABN AMRO Sage Corporation
  • Langendorf Foundation

Significant funders include:

  • Victorian Alliance
  • CAW Foundation
  • Mary A. Crocker Trust
  • ABN AMRO Bank
  • Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
  • ING
  • Robert Charles Friese, Esq.
  • San Francisco Beautiful
  • Peter and Rozelle Overmire
  • Diana Knowles
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Bechtel Corporation
  • Pope-Talbot Lumber Company
  • Keith Provo
  • LEF Foundation
  • ENECO

More than 176 individuals, foundations or corporations have joined the restoration effort.

 

 

Steering Committee

  • Don Propstra, Chairman
  • Cindy Sterry
  • Dianne Barkley, ABN AMRO
  • Donna Miller Casey, Community Volunteer
  • Joseph Costello, Community Volunteer
  • Mark de Jong, Bloemendal Construction Company
  • Ray Dracker, Bechtel Group & National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • Douglas Engmann, Honorary Consul General, The Netherlands
  • Robert Charles Friese, Community Volunteer
  • Garret Gerritsen, San Francisco Civic Symphony
  • Nancy Connor, President, San Francisco Parks Trust
  • Mariska Henneberque, Dutch Community Liaison
  • Adrienne Horn, Museum Management Consultants
  • Sheila Kolenc, San Francisco Beautiful
  • Clara I. McInerney, Community Volunteer
  • John Murray, Commissioner, Department of Recreation & Park
  • Hendrika Neys, Frank A. Campini Foundation
  • Patsy Pope, Sr., Community Volunteer
  • Gaby Jackson Renstrom, Esq., Community Volunteer
  • Peter Rosekrans, Landscape Architect
  • Sevag Sarkissian, Community Organizer & Representative for Assemblyman Leland Yee
  • Michael Spock, Museum Designer and Educator
  • Adrianna Pope Sullivan, Business Development Specialist
  • Sim Van der Ryn, Van der Ryn Architects
  • Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Publisher, Travel Writer
  • Natasha Yankoffski, Preferred Trade, Inc.

 

Guiding Principles
The Campaign leadership is committed to the following values in carrying out this campaign:

Quality - this will be a quality campaign and the restoration work to be carried out will meet the highest standards.

Efficiency - the campaign and restoration work will strive for efficiency in its use of time and resources.

Enjoyment - the campaign will engage people, initiate creative partnerships and foster community building in an atmosphere of fun and collegiality.

To learn how you can contribute to the campaign, please contact us.