Our Supporters
We are so grateful for the strong support we get from our community. The following donors, corporations, foundations and volunteers were incredibly generous with their time and/or money in 2020-21.
Thank you, donors!
Through the generosity of our donors, we funded 140 scholarships, 8 honorariums and 37 internships/supplemental scholarships in 2020-2021, distributing over $500,000 in scholarships.
Anonymous (2) | Liz and Dave Rome |
Shortino Foundation | Tom Shou |
Gail and Bruce Chizen | Jackie and Ben Sigua |
Jim Strand | |
Marguerite and Karl Hansen | Susan and Jim Strawbridge |
Intrepid Family Foundation (recommended by Steve Hope) | Ginny and Rich Strock |
Cathy and Dick Lampman | Pamela and Edward Taft |
Wallace Mersereau | Stephanie and Andrew Towell |
Cindy and Ron Olander | Town Crier Holiday Fund |
Anonymous | Russ and Debbie Hall |
Paul Marcos and Barry Albrecht | Skoll Foundation (recommended by Kirk Hanson) |
Tim Ayres | Dede and Michael Huffman |
Risa and Mike Biggar | Los Altos Community Foundation |
Diane and Jim Bordoni | Candace and Douglas Lublin |
Susan and David Burwen | Shiva and Arman Maghbouleh |
Sandra Lee and John Chang | Jim Pollart |
Holly and Andy Cohen | Janet Tornow and Tom Rogers |
Dee Gibson | Sue and Dave Russell |
Burton and Carol Goldfield | Kathleen and Mark Santora |
Sue and Ken Greathouse |
Anonymous | Janet Gilmore and Geoff McCavitt |
Amy and Erik Allebest | Cindy and Milton McColl |
Cindy and Paul Anderson | D’Anne and Bruce McFarlane |
Deborah and Paul Baker | Bart Miaullis |
Nikki and Rich Beyer | Anne and Michael Milliken |
Rachel and Bryon Botsford | Kris and Ken Moore |
Ryan and Julie Broms | Kathleen Hall and Leslie Murdock |
Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney and Vikas Butaney | Manisha and Rupesh Patel Shah |
Carrie and Peter Castro | Sindhu and Sangeeth Peruri |
Carla and Peter Chow | Valerie and John Poggi |
Viviane Wildmann and Daniel Cohen | Liz Price |
Meri-Beth Bird and Mark Dzwonczyk | Jeannie and Wells Richter |
Jennifer Pence and Adam Feder | Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation (recommended by Kim Rogers) |
Kathy Frates | Galen Rosenberg |
Nan Geschke | Rotary Club of Los Altos |
Margaret and Ben Gong | Rotary Club of Mountain View |
Gita and Prabandham Gopal | Julia and Simon Roy |
Julie and Barry Groves | Kanthi Sarkar |
Kammy Lo and Kowsik Guruswamy | Ellyn Corey and Tom Sartor |
Judy Hannemann | Deborah Settle |
Caitlin and Timothy Hannon | Leonard and Jessica Speiser |
Lynne Heinrich | Mike Stanley |
Lalia and Hamilton Helmer | Nancy and Tom Stevens |
Sung Choi and Erik Hendriks | Garret Swart |
Nancy and Jerre Hitz | Valerie and Steven Taglio |
Sara Jenez and Ricardo Jenez | Christine and Timothy Taich |
Kim and Brian Jones | Norelle Tavrow |
Andrea and Michael Kanda | Robin and Mike Teng |
Becky Bacon and Jude Kirik | Elene Terry |
Jill and Richard Klein | Scott and Allison Tilley |
Therese and Torben Kristensen | Dale and Charlie Tritschler |
Cindy Labuda | Pam Baird and Greg Unangst |
Timothy Landhuis | Reynette Au and Jeanine Valadez |
John Lehner | Cathy and Gary Walz |
Amy and Rick Magnuson | Catherine Vonnegut and Gary Winiger |
Bill Mason | Ann and Neil Wolff |
Vimai Chudasama | Vicki and Peter LaBoskey |
Keren Dawson-Bowman | Joanne Tornow and Neil Lehrer |
Tamara and Stuart Fagin | Linda and Mike McTeigue |
Sheila and Philip Faillace | Vicki Moore |
Carole Flores | Katherine and Kyle Morgenroth |
Pilar Garcia | Renuka and Kanu Patel |
Nancy and Steve Gill | Gail Pinkner |
Suzanne and Scott Graeser | Rosita Neighborhood Coalition |
Mavi Gurbinder | Mona and Vish Shastry |
Krysten Hommel | Kim and John Sheehan |
Sarah Chang and Jerry Hsia | Laura Smoliar |
Solveig Kjartansdottir | Debra and Seth Strichartz |
Todd and Anna Kjos | Janet and Richard Vassar |
Mary Takahashi and Karl Kramer | Marcia and Randy White |
Anonymous (4) | Carol and Howard Koransky |
Matt Abrahams | Kai Kristensen |
Maryann and Bob Alloo | Jennifer Lamerdin |
Suzanne Amato | Donna Lee |
Kristine and Erik Bardman | Pam and Chris Lehner |
Jeanne and Allen Bates | Sara Levine |
Patricia and Christopher Beaulieu | Ann and George Limbach |
Ann Benett | Ilona and Chuck Lindauer |
Joanna and Roman Beyer | Mary Fran Miller and Fred Linker |
Ann and Peter Bjorklund | Petrita and David Lipkin |
Brian and Jennifer Blatnick | Matthew and Rebecca Lowell |
Ron and Katie Bodkin | Joan and Wally MacDonald |
Doug and Sarah Bond | Elizabeth and Mike Maciag |
David and Amanda Boschken | Aila Malik |
Peggy Forbes Bremond and Harry Bremond | Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian and Pete Manoukian |
Sonia Brunner | Joanne Marent |
Suzanne and Eric Butler | Didier and Eliane Margairaz |
Kathy and Mark Camin | Sally Meadows and Ian Massey |
Brian and Jennifer Carlstrom | Steffen Low and Katie Mattice |
Elizabeth Carr | Maddy and John McBirney |
Maria Carrig | Katy and Steve McCormick |
Goria Carrig | Joanne and Derek Miyahara |
Carrie Chatterjee | Tom Moran |
Cathy Cheng | Karen Myers |
Barbara Clapp | Elaine Nelson |
Ellen and Bill Clark | Allison Okamura |
Vivien and Stephen D’Andrea | Ashish Patel |
Jean and Andy Danver | Alice and Clifford Pence |
Ann Darby | Steve Peters |
Shernaz Daver | Ellen Petrill |
George Dies | Judy Atterholt and Christopher Petti |
Claudia Hevel and Stanley Doty | Patricia Plumer |
Frances and Bruce Dougherty | Margreta Purcell |
Devorah Duncan | Megan Marwede and David Rich |
Natalie Elefant | Daniel Rich |
Shari and Frank Elmer | Duane and Anne Roberts |
Vivian and Bruce Euzent | Aumi Rohm-Wesley |
Teri and Joe Eyre | Ross Stores |
Sheri and Rich Fischer | Lorelei and Larry Russell |
Betsy and John Fitch | Joan Ryan |
Jean Fong | Sherry and Phil Shemanski |
Jan Foo | Julia Singer |
Carol and David Francisco | Kim and Larry Soule |
Andrea and Richard Gorman | Caitlin Stanley |
Susan and Kim Graham | Elliot Stein |
Marci Hanson | Marilyn and Al Stratz |
Amanda Hashfield | Kathy Sulaver |
David Haskell | Leigh Sullivan |
Pat and Gary Hedden | Allison Suzy |
Paulette and Dick Henning | Alison and Greg Takata |
Dalila Hernandez | Christine Talbott |
Susan Imai | Carolyn Pierce-Whang and Trevor Thompson |
Laurel and Bob Iverson | Roz Tornow |
Sonny Jandial | Nomi and Fritz Trapnell |
Melissa Jankowski | Beth Vidakovits |
Michael Jimenez | Peggy Franczyk and Thomas Wilson |
Tory Johnson | Adrienne Wong |
Laura Roberts and Bob Jones | Sandy Woodruff |
Ellen Kamei | Martha Yacoe Daly and Marshall Yacoe |
Karen and David Keefer | Ed Yu |
Adele Kellman |
Thank you, corporations and foundations!
Interested in providing a grant?
Contact Norelle Tavrow, Grants Manager
Thank you, volunteers!
MVLA Scholars is a 100% volunteer-run organization. Our 160+ volunteers:
- mentor Scholars and AVID high school students
- provide career guidance through the Career Launch team
- select our Scholars
- produce our website
- train Scholars and mentors
- serve on our Board
Gerri Acers | Andrea Gorman | John Poggi |
Barry Albrecht | Scott Graeser | Liz Price |
Harvey Alcabes | Sue Greathouse | Sonal Puri Singh |
Amy Allebest | Marci Hanson | Nikhila Rao |
Debbie Amorese | Rachel Hastings | Jeannie Richter |
Cindy Anderson | Mason Hersey | Julia Roy |
Paul Anderson | Wanny Hersey | Ceanne Ruehle |
Susan Arrillaga | Jennie Ho | Susan Russell |
Claudia Baroni | Krysten Hommel | Kanthi Sarkar |
Karen Becker | Steve Hope | Colton Saylor |
Jill Bertrand | Dede Huffman | Julie Scott |
Risa Biggar | Olivia Iancelli | Manisha Shah |
Jon Bingham | Laurel Iverson | Kim Sheehan |
Rachel Botsford | Anagha Jain | Tom Shou |
Kristen Bragg | Sara Jenez | Julia Singer |
Laura Brennan | Barb Keyser | Caroline Small |
Betty Burchard | Therese Kristensen | Stephanie Spaid |
Liliana Cabral | Sharon Lam | Tucker Stanwood |
Kathy Camin | Jennifer Lamerdin | Valori Stitt |
Lindsay Carpenter | Sandra Lee | Debra Stout |
Barbara Carroll | Sara Levine | Susan Strawbridge |
Jessica Chang | Chuck Lindauer | Ginny Strock |
Sarah Chang | Lynette Liu | Rich Strock |
Peter Chow | Candace Lublin | Sundar Subbarayan |
Andy Cohen | Doug Lublin | Tim Taich |
Dan Cohen | Daphne Luong | Alison Takata |
Holly Cohen | Jim Malone | Norelle Tavrow |
Jim Colton | Joanne Marent | Laura Teksler |
Zoe Conroy | Eric Mark | Mike Teng |
Ellyn Corey | Victor Martindale | Robin Teng |
Maribeth Coyne | Megan Marwede | Trevor Thompson |
Stephanie Downey | Bill Mason | Janet Tornow |
Sarah Eitzman | Gary Maxey | Andrew Towell |
Lisa Estrada | Cindy McColl | Charlie Tritschler |
Miluna Fausch | Bruce McFarlane | Dale Tritschler |
Betsy Fitch | Mike McTeigue | Holly Van Hart |
Carole Flores | Susi Merhar | Janet Vassar |
Brett Ford | Stuart Mitchell | Beth Vidakovits |
Peggy Franczyk | Stephanie Moore | Robin Vroom |
Malar Ganapathiappan | Junne Moy | Jennifer Walsh |
Craig Garber | Daniel Pare | Cathy Walz |
Dee Gibson | Jennifer Pence | Ann Wolfe |
Janet Gilmore | Steve Peters | Beth Wolff |
Margaret Gong | Ellen Petrill | Neil Wolff |
Sarah Good | Jen Piercey | Marissa Ynez |
Barbara Goodrich | Gail Pinkner | Tracey Young |
Gital Gopal |