Adjust acknowledgment documentation

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -40,8 +40,33 @@ To contribute, please follow these steps:
 - [ ] Watch for CI results on your PR and address any failures.
 - [ ] Please be patient and responsive to comments on your PR.
 
+## Current and Past Contributors
+
+Caffeine is an open-source project and welcomes community participation in the development process.
+Notable current and past contributors include:
+
+* [Dan Bonachea](https://go.lbl.gov/dan-bonachea)
+  [@bonachea](https://github.com/bonachea)
+  [![View ORCID record] 0000-0002-0724-9349](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0724-9349)
+
+* [Katherine Rasmussen](https://go.lbl.gov/katherine-rasmussen)
+  [@ktras](https://github.com/ktras)
+  [![View ORCID record] 0000-0001-7974-1853](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7974-1853)
+
+* [Brad Richardson](https://everythingfunctional.com/)
+  [@everythingfunctional](https://github.com/everythingfunctional)
+  [![View ORCID record] 0000-0002-3205-2169](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3205-2169)
+
+* [Damian Rouson](https://go.lbl.gov/damian-rouson) 
+  [@rouson](https://github.com/rouson)
+  [![View ORCID record] 0000-0002-2344-868X](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2344-868X)
+
+
+You can also browse the [full list of repository contributors](https://github.com/BerkeleyLab/caffeine/graphs/contributors).
+
 ---
 
 [Long or Frequently Used URLs]: #
+[View ORCID record]: https://github.com/BerkeleyLab/caffeine/wiki/img/ORCID-small.png
 [closed issues]: https://github.com/berkeleylab/caffeine/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
 [new issue]: https://github.com/berkeleylab/caffeine/issues/new

README.md

@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Technical Report (LBNL-2001636), Dec 2024.
 
 Funding
 -------
-The Computer Languages and Systems Software ([CLaSS]) Group at [Berkeley Lab] has developed Caffeine development on funding from the Exascale Computing Project ([ECP]) and the Stewardship for Programming Systems and Tools ([S4PST]) project. 
+The Computer Languages and Systems Software ([CLaSS]) Group at [Berkeley Lab] has developed Caffeine 
+on funding from the Exascale Computing Project ([ECP](https://www.exascaleproject.org)) 
+and the Stewardship for Programming Systems and Tools ([S4PST](https://ornl.github.io/events/s4pst2023/)) project,
+part of the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software ([CASS](https://cass.community/)).
 
 Support and Licensing
 ---------------------
@@ -148,11 +151,8 @@ See [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for usage terms and conditions.
 [GASNet-EX]: https://gasnet.lbl.gov
 [CLaSS]: https://go.lbl.gov/class
 [Berkeley Lab]: https://lbl.gov
-[ECP]: https://www.exascaleproject.org
 [MPI]: https://www.mpi-forum.org
-[S4PST]: https://ornl.github.io/events/s4pst2023/
 [Homebrew]: https://brew.sh
-[GASNet-EX]: https://gasnet.lbl.gov
 [Fortran package manager]: https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm
 [pkg-config]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 [realpath]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/realpath.3.html