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 2019-20.
Thank you, donors!
Through the generosity of our donors, we funded 148 scholarships, 17 honorariums and 36 internships in 2019-2020, distributing over $500,000 in scholarships.
Anonymous | Wallace Mersereau |
Gail and Bruce Chizen | Susie and Neal Mielke |
Google LLC | Cindy and Ron Olander |
Dawn and Gary Guthart | Liz and Dave Rome |
Marguerite and Karl Hansen | Jackie and Ben Sigua |
Heising-Simons Foundation | Shortino Foundation |
Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation (recommended by Steve Hope) | Jim Strand |
Cathy and Dick Lampman | Ginny and Rich Strock |
LinkedIn Corporation | Betsy Templeton |
Paul Marcos and Barry Albrecht | Los Altos United Methodist Church |
Risa and Mike Biggar | Geri and Scott Macomber |
Sandra Lee and John Chang | Liz Price |
Holly and Andy Cohen | Janet Tornow and Tom Rogers |
Dee Gibson | Julia and Simon Roy |
Sue and Ken Greathouse | Susan and Jim Strawbridge |
Dede and Michael Huffman | Pamela and Edward Taft |
Kim and Brian Jones | Stephanie and Andrew Towell |
Los Altos Community Foundation |
Cindy and Paul Anderson | Janet Gilmore and Geoff McCavitt |
Anonymous | Cindy and Milton McColl |
Lisa and David Auerbach | D’Anne and Bruce McFarlane |
Tim Ayres | Linda and Mike McTeigue |
Deborah and Paul Baker | Anne and Michael Milliken |
Carrie and Peter Castro | Kris and Ken Moore |
Viviane Wildmann and Daniel Cohen | Kathleen Hall and Leslie Murdock |
Elayne and Philip Dauber | Quyen Nguyen |
Sue Epstein | Manisha and Rupesh Patel Shah |
Tamara and Stuart Fagin | Valerie and John Poggi |
Kathy Frates | Kathy and John Radford |
Margaret and Ben Gong | Galen Rosenberg |
Gita and Prabandham Gopal | Sue and Dave Russell |
Julie and Barry Groves | Santa Cruz County Community Foundation |
Judy Hannemann | Ellyn Corey and Tom Sartor |
Jennifer Hawks | Vish Shastry |
Lalia and Hamilton Helmer | Mike Stanley |
Nancy and Jerre Hitz | Valori and Gordon Stitt |
Grace and Alex Hui | Harvard Sung |
Asif Iqbal | Garret Swart |
Andrea and Michael Kanda | Valerie and Steven Taglio |
Becky Bacon and Jude Kirik | Norelle Tavrow |
Jill and Richard Klein | Elene Terry |
Therese and Torben Kristensen | Dale and Charlie Tritschler |
Barbara and Edmond Kyser | Pam Baird and Greg Unangst |
Cindy Labuda | Reynette Au and Jeanine Valadez |
Timothy Landhuis | Cathy and Gary Walz |
Candace and Douglas Lublin | Dennis Young |
Bill Mason |
Jeanne and Allen Bates | Chris and Webb McKinney |
Sheila and Philip Faillace | Jeannie and Wells Richter |
Betsy and John Fitch | Diane Schmitz |
Suzanne and Scott Graeser | Lo Siumui |
Sung Choi and Erik Hendriks | Debra and Seth Strichartz |
Laura Roberts and Bob Jones | Robin and Mike Teng |
Mary Takahashi and Karl Kramer | Catherine Vonnegut and Gary Winiger |
Ana Levan |
Amy Allebest | Joanne Tornow and Neil Lehrer |
Anonymous | Ann and George Limbach |
Patricia and Christopher Beaulieu | Ilona and Chuck Lindauer |
Ann and Peter Bjorklund | Petrita and David Lipkin |
Books Inc. | Rui Lu |
Heather Anne Boyle | Elizabeth and Mike Maciag |
Peggy Forbes Bremond and Harry Bremond | Nanette Malgesini |
Betty Burchard | Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian and Pete Manoukian |
Suzanne and Eric Butler | Joanne Marent |
Kathy and Mark Camin | Renee and Robert Marshalla |
Kristine Carter | William McClintock |
Laura Casas | Betsy and David Mease |
Ellen and Bill Clark | Joanne and Derek Miyahara |
Vivien and Stephen D’Andrea | Tom Moran |
Jean and Andy Danver | Ann Nguyen |
George Dies | Lisa and Brent Paine |
Claudia Hevel and Stanley Doty | Alice and Clifford Pence |
Frances and Bruce Dougherty | Steve Peters |
Greg Doyas | Alison and Steven Rempel |
Patricia and Robert Falconer | Daniel Rich |
Nancy Federman | Megan Marwede and David Rich |
Sheri and Rich Fischer | Carson Rietveld |
Carole Flores | Lorelei and Larry Russell |
Karen Fox | Julie and Douglass Scott |
Teri Fraught | Syd Sharples |
Nancy and Steve Gill | Elena and Tom Shea |
Marci Hanson | Caroline and James Small |
Kirsten and Kevin Hayes | Marilyn and Al Stratz |
Pat and Gary Hedden | Kathy Sulaver |
Paulette and Dick Henning | Michael Trainor |
Wanny and Mason Hersey | Adrienne and Neil Tuch |
Sarah Chang and Jerry Hsia | Robin Vroom |
Susan Imai | Fiona and Todd Walter |
Joan and David Karlin | Marcia and Randy White |
Carol Koransky | Paula White-Reddy |
Vicki and Peter LaBoskey | Peggy Franczyk and Thomas Wilson |
Pam and Chris Lehner | Martha Yacoe Daly and Marshall Yacoe |
Thank you, corporations and foundations!
Interested in providing a grant?
Contact Sung-Eun Choi, Grants Manager
Thank you, volunteers!
MVLA Scholars is a 100% volunteer-run organization. Our 150+ 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 | Rachel Hastings | Gail Pinkner |
Barry Albrecht | Mason Hersey | John Poggi |
Amy Allebest | Wanny Hersey | Liz Price |
Cindy Anderson | Jennie Ho | Sonal Puri Singh |
Paul Anderson | Steve Hope | Nikhila Rao |
Susan Arrillaga | Dede Huffman | Paul Reinhart |
Claudia Baroni | Linda Hung | Jeannie Richter |
Karen Becker | Olivia Iancelli | Liz Rome |
Jill Bertrand | Laurel Iverson | Galen Rosenberg |
Jon Bingham | Anagha Jain | Julia Roy |
Rachel Botsford | Sara Jenez | Sue Russell |
Kristen Bragg | Jennifer Jones | Maria Monica Santi |
Trang Bui | Barb Keyser | Kanthi Sarkar |
Betty Burchard | Karl Kramer | Julie Scott |
Liliana Cabral | Therese Kristensen | Manisha Shah |
Kathy Camin | Jennifer Lamerdin Dormady | Kim Sheehan |
Lindsay Carpenter | Sandra Lee | Tom Shou |
Barbara Carroll | Sara Levine | Julia Singer |
Jessica Chang | Chuck Lindauer | Caroline Small |
Sarah Chang | Lynette Liu | Stephanie Spaid |
Sung-Eun Choi | Kammy Lo | Lekha Srinivasan |
Peter Chow | Candace Lublin | Mike Stanley |
John Cognetta | Doug Lublin | Tucker Stanwood |
Andy Cohen | Daphne Luong | Valori Stitt |
Dan Cohen | Chris Luu | Debra Stout |
Holly Cohen | Alyxia Ma | Susan Strawbridge |
Jim Colton | Jim Malone | Ginny Strock |
Zoe Conroy | Joanne Marent | Rich Strock |
Ellyn Corey | Eric Mark | Nancy Strom |
Maribeth Coyne | Victor Martindale | Sundar Subbarayan |
Diyamanthi Dahanayaka | Megan Marwede | Tim Taich |
Stephanie Downey | Bill Mason | Alison Takata |
Lisa Estrada | Gary Maxey | Norelle Tavrow |
Betsy Fitch | Cindy McColl | Mike Teng |
Carole Flores | Bruce McFarlane | Robin Teng |
Peggy Forbes | Mike McTeigue | Trevor Thompson |
Brett Ford | Betsy Mease | Janet Tornow |
Peggy Franczyk | Susi Merhar | Andrew Towell |
Malar Ganapathiappan | Neal Mielke | Charlie Tritschler |
Craig Garber | Susie Mielke | Dale Tritschler |
Pilar Garcia | Stuart Mitchell | Janet Vassar |
Dee Gibson | Denise Montgomery | Beth Vidakovits |
Janet Gilmore | Stephanie Moore | Robin Vroom |
Margaret Gong | Junne Moy | Jenn Walsh |
Sarah Good | Junne Moy | Cathy Walz |
Gital Gopal | Nancy NeSmith | Paula White Reddy |
Andrea Gorman | Kari Niehaus | Ann Wolff |
Scott Graesser | Daniel Pare | Beth Wolff |
Barry Groves | Chris Parry | Neil Wolff |
Judy Hanneman | Jennifer Pence | Marissa Ynez |
Marci Hanson | Steve Peters | Tracey Young |
Tabitha Hanson | Ellen Petrill |