Liberty and Justice for ALL
Est. 2010
The first 200 donations of $100 and above will have a specific flag designated as yours or to honor someone for the 2023 season.
Donors will receive a map with flag coordinates and a commemorative sticker.
For donations more than $100, be sure to comment who you intend to honor. This can be found on PayPal's payments section, under "personalized instructions". Please contact us with any questions!
Raise a Flag Bay City is a program of The Jefferson Project, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
Community has and will always be the heart of Raise a Flag Bay City
Individual donations have been the driving force of Raise a Flag Bay City since 2010. Golden Gallery has been organizing and maintaining Raise a Flag Bay City for 13 years, but this project wouldn't be what it is today without the continued love and support from our community. We thank you and our local businesses for continuing to support our on-going efforts and encourage you to keep an eye out for more placemaking programs from The Jefferson Project.
Our Story
In 2009, when Avram Golden's brother Ari Golden was being deployed to the Iraq War, his family planned a going away party. Traveling from Bay City - their childhood home and Avram's permanent residence - and arriving in the small town of Lainsburgh MI where his brother resided, the American Flags that lined the Lainsburgh streets made a visually profound impression on Avram and he immediately determined to organize a similar presence in our town inspired by this family visit. Bay City's Tallship Celebration and Fireworks Festival were coming that next summer which seemed the perfect time to initiate such a project. So he presented the idea to the Downtown Management Board and completed the approval process with the city of Bay City. In the project’s first year (2010), we proudly mounted 100 flags in historic downtown Bay City and have incrementally expanded the Raise A Flag presence each year.
Even though these high quality flags are carefully removed and stored each Fall, the life-cycle is only two years, so project funding remains ongoing.
If you see a damaged or missing flag, please contact us at TheJeffersonProject
Thank You for Supporting Raise a Flag
Our Top Donors Gave $100 or More in 2023
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Chris Chesny
Sandra Paulus
Elizabeth Wielinski
Dorothy K. McAllen
Eric Stasser
Jason Ballor
Wendy Mueller
Michael Chapman
Mohammad Islam
Shelley Niedzwiecki
Trisha Burns
Diane Fong
SHOSHAWNA DANIELS
Doug Wirt Stone Products, LLC
IN MEMORY OF TOM KOSTUS
DEDICATION BY BRIAN AND ANNE KOSTUS
IN HONOR OR TOM WIELINSKI
DEDICATION BY ELIZABETH WIELINSKI
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS H. LINDNER
DEDICATION BY MATT AND AMY HEWITT
IN HONOR OF DAVID E. GLAZA, NAVY OS2 BEACH JUMPER
DEDICATION BY JUSTINE MUNCH
IN MEMORY OF
JILL FRANCKE WORDEN, MY BELATED SISTER
DEDICATION BY BRUCE FRANCKE
IN MEMORY OF MY SON
USMC CPL JACOB H TURBETT
KIA AFGHANISTAN 02-13-2010
DEDICATION BY SHEILA TURBETT
IN HONOR OF
FRANK STARKWEATHER
DEDICATION BY STUART STARKWEATHER
IN HONOR OF
JACOB AND STEPH FONG
US Army
DEDICATION BY DIANE FONG
IN HONOR OF
TERRY SHEEHAN
US Army
DEDICATION BY
THE REINHARDT FAMILY
AND PATRICK SHEEHAN
BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION
DEDICATION BY MARY JO JAMROG
IN HONOR OF
Meade A. Gougeon, 1939 – 2017
Jan C. Gougeon, 1945 – 2012
DEDICATION BY
Gougeon Employees Foundation
IN HONOR OF
Larry "Pa" Jacobs and Glen Thomas
Dedication by
Judith Thomas
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Honoring and remembering your loved ones is important to us.
If you see and error in the tribute section, please contact us for correction!