Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Catherine Tatge Joins Berkshire Taconic Board

June 8, 2010

GREAT BARRINGTON, MA—Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation announced today that Catherine Tatge of Cornwall Bridge, CT has joined its board of directors. Ms. Tatge joins 21 other community residents on Berkshire Taconic’s board.

Ms. Tatge is a producer and director of film and television and a partner in Tatge/Lasseur Productions and the not-for-profit, Global Village Media. For over 25 years, her work has encompassed many genres, from public affairs, performance and dance, to biographies and the world of ideas. Ms. Tatge was director and producer of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, for which she received an Emmy Award. She has directed and produced for national programs on PBS, among them for American Masters, Great Performances and series with Bill Moyers. She is currently producing and directing a documentary on John Muir which will be broadcast on American Masters in 2011. Her not-for-profit Global Village Media initiated the Civic Life Project, which uses documentary filmmaking to challenge high school and college students to investigate how the essentials of democracy play out in daily life ad how easily they can be compromised.

Says Tatge, “I am pleased to be joining the board of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and hope that I will be able to contribute to strengthening the wonderful programs and funds that serve our community.”

Ms. Tatge joins Ann Goodbody, Neil McCarthy, and David Rich as Berkshire Taconic board members from Northwest Litchfield County, CT. Berkshire Taconic board members also include Bill Dunlaevy, Edward Hoe, David McCarthy, Charles P. O’Brien, Tony Sheldon, Virginia Stanton Smith, and John Hoyt Stookey of Berkshire County, MA; Sally Berg, Carmi Rapport, Andrew Vickery and Vera Weintraub of Columbia County, NY; and Sia Arnason, Gloria Callen, Christopher Kennan, Holly Nelson, Sarah Stack and Nancy Stahl of northeast Dutchess County, NY.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation was founded in Salisbury, CT in 1987. Since that time, Berkshire Taconic has distributed over $10 million to benefit residents of the Northwest Corner of Connecticut through scholarships and grants for programs in the arts and education, health and human services, and environmental protection. Berkshire Taconic is the community foundation for Northwest Litchfield County, CT, Northeast Dutchess County and Columbia County, NY, and Berkshire County, MA, building stronger communities and improving the quality of life for everyone in its region. Berkshire Taconic is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization.