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 2021-22.
Thank you, donors!
Through the generosity of our donors, we funded 133 scholarships, 14 honorariums and 10 internships/supplemental scholarships in 2022-2023, distributing over $530,000 in scholarships.
Anonymous | Tom Chavez |
Gail and Bruce Chizen | Esther and Aart De Geus |
Carol and Burton Goldfield | Google, Inc |
Marguerite and Karl Hansen | Chris and Greg Hoberg |
Intrepid Family Foundation (recommended by Steve Hope) | Cathy and Dick Lampman |
Wallace Mersereau | |
Ron and Cindy Olander | Jim Pollart |
Liz and Dave Rome | Loren and Robyn Shalinsky |
Leo M. Shortino Foundation | Tom Shou |
Jackie and Ben Sigua | Jim Strand |
Susan and Jim Strawbridge | Ginny and Rich Strock |
Pamela and Edward Taft | Betsy Templeton |
Stephanie and Andrew Towell | Town Crier Holiday Fund |
Kitty Uhlir |
Anonymous | Risa and Mike Biggar |
Diane and Jim Bordoni | Sandra Lee and John Changni |
Holly and Andy Cohen | Zoe Conroy |
Dee Gibson | Margaret and Ben Gong |
Sue and Ken Greathouse | Caitlin and Timothy Hannon |
Dede and Michael Huffman | Jay Kidd |
Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation | Candace and Douglas Lublin |
Shiva and Arman Maghbouleh | Liz and Jim Ostrowski |
Janet Tornow and Tom Rogers | Julia and Simon Roy |
Scott and Allison Tilley |
Anonymous (4) | Cindy and Paul Anderson |
Tim Ayres | Deborah and Paul Baker |
Rachel and Bryon Botsford | Ryan and Julie Broms |
Anjana and Vikas Butaney | Carrie and Peter Castro |
Viviane and Daniel Cohen | Carole Flores |
Kathy and Raleigh Frates | Nan Geschke |
Gita and Prabandham Gopal | Julie and Barry Groves |
Kammy and Kowsik Guruswamy | Judy Hannemann |
Lynne Heinrich | Lalia and Hamilton Helmer |
Nancy and Jerre Hitz | Sara and Ricardo Jenez |
Andrea and Michael Kanda | Becky and Jude Kirik |
Jill and Richard Klein | Judd and Amy Klement |
Therese and Torben Kristensen | Cindy Labuda |
John Lehner | Joanne and Neil Lehrer |
Sharon and Seth Leslie | Geri and Scott Macomber |
Amy and Rick Magnuson | Bill Mason |
Nancy Mason | Steffen and Katie Mattice |
Janet and Geoff McCavitt | Cindy and Milton McColl |
D’Anne and Bruce McFarlane | Linda and Mike McTeigue |
Anne and Michael Milliken | Kris and Ken Moore |
Kathleen and Leslie Murdock | Stephanie and Louis Pare |
Gail and Scott Pinkner | Valerie and John Poggi |
Galen Rosenberg | Rotary Club of Los Altos |
Sue and Dave Russell | Ellyn and Tom Sartor |
Julie and Douglass Scott | Manisha and Rupesh Shah |
Leonard and Jessica Speiser | Mike Stanley |
Nancy and Tom Stevens | Debra and Seth Strichartz |
Garret Swart | Valerie and Steven Taglio |
Norelle Tavrow | Elene Terry |
Dale and Charlie Tritschler | Pam and Greg Unangst |
Reynette and Jeanine Valadez | Krishna and JoAnne Vedati |
Cathy and Gary Walz | Catherine and Gary Winiger |
Ann and Neil Wolff |
Robin and Mike Abrams | Bullis Charter School |
Keren Dawson-Bowman | Tamara and Stuart Fagin |
Sheila and Philip Faillace | Jennifer and Adam Feder |
Jan Foo | Suzanne and Scott Graeser |
Sarah and Jerry Hsia | Samina and Asif Iqbal |
Susi and Karl Kaiser | Elizabeth and Alan Keefer |
Mary and Karl Kramer | Vicki and Peter LaBoskey |
Ilona and Chuck Lindauer | Petrita and David Lipkin |
Mithran and Anita Mathew | Tom Moran |
Renuka and Kanu Patel | Sonoko and Albert Rooney |
Elena and Tom Shea | Kim and John Sheehan |
Christine and Timothy Taich | Janet Vassar |
Laura and Mark Abore | Anonymous (8) |
Sherry Auerbach | Kristine and Erik Bardman |
Jeanne and Allen Bates | Patricia and Christopher Beaulieu |
Ann Benett | Ann and Peter Bjorklund |
Ron and Katie Bodkin | Doug and Sarah Bond |
Sonia Brunner | Suzanne and Eric Butler |
Kathy and Mark Camin | Brian and Jennifer Carlstrom |
Maria Carrig | Laura Casas |
Cathy Cheng | Barbara Clapp |
Ellen and Bill Clark | Vivien and Stephen D’Andrea |
Ann Darby | Claudia and Stanley Doty |
Natalie Elefant | Lisa Estrada |
Vivian and Bruce Euzent | Teri and Joe Eyre |
Sheri and Rich Fischer | Virginia Fontana |
Karen Fox | Nancy and Steve Gill |
Andrea and Richard Gorman | Susan and Kim Graham |
Marci Hanson | Pat and Gary Hedden |
Susan Imai | Denise Lee Janjigian |
Lucy Janjigian | Tory Johnson |
Laura and Bob Jones | Karen and David Keefer |
Carol and Howard Koransky | Donna Lee |
Ann and George Limbach | Patricia and Pete Manoukian |
Sally and Ian Massey | Maddy and John McBirney |
Trish and Stuart Mitchell | Karen and Peter Moulds |
Alice and Clifford Pence | Steve Peters |
Kitty and Gary Petersmeyer | Ellen Petrill |
Daniel Rich | Duane and Anne Roberts |
Roberta and Frank Robertson | Lorelei and Larry Russell |
Sanjay Sarathy | Sherry and Phil Shemanski |
Caroline and James Small | Robin and Mike Teng |
Emy Thurber | Marty Varon |
Meghana Vishvanath | Marcia and Randy White |
Ed Yu |
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 140+ 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 | Barry Albrecht | Amy Allebest |
Cindy Anderson | Paul Anderson | Susan Arrillaga |
Claudia Baroni | Jill Bertrand | Risa Biggar |
Jon Bingham | Rachel Botsford | Gabriella Bradley |
Kristen Bragg | Morgan Bricca | Betty Burchard |
Lindsay Carpenter | Barbara Carrol | Sarah Chang |
Jessica Chang | Peter Chow | Andy Cohen |
Dan Cohen | Holly Cohen | Jim Colton |
Zoe Conroy | Maribeth Coyne | Isaiah Dolce |
Stephanie Downey | Sarah Eltzman | Lisa Estrada |
Claire Evangelista | Miluna Fausch | Carole Flores |
Teresa Flory | Brett Ford | Peggy Franczyk |
Malar Ganapathiappan | Craig Garber | Dee Gibson |
Janet Gilmore | Carol Goldfield | Margaret Gong |
Sarah Good | Barbara Goodrich | Andrea Gorman |
Scott Graeser | Kathy Hamilton | Marci Hanson |
Wanny/Mason Hersey | Mason Hersey | Jennie Ho |
Steve Hope | Dede Huffman | Olivia Iancelli |
Laurel Iverson | Valerie Izaguirre | Anagha Jain |
Sara Jenez | Gulnar Kawas | Barb Keyser |
Salman Khan | Jay Kidd | Hilary King |
Elisa Kneip | Therese Kristensen | Sharon Lam |
Jennifer Lamerdin | Carolyn LeBaron | Anna Lee |
Sandra Lee | Gayle Levin | Sara Levine |
Chuck Lindauer | Michael Liu | Rebecca Lowell |
Candace Lublin | Doug Lublin | Daphne Luong |
Jim Malone | Joanne Marent | Eric Mark |
Victor Martindale | Megan Marwede | Anita Mathew |
Gary Maxey | Cindy McColl | Bruce McFarlane |
Mike McTeigue | Susi Merhar | Leslie Micetich |
Mike Millikan | Kathie Montgomery | Stephanie Moore |
Junne Moy | Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney | Nanami Narusawa |
Sheryl Paltin | Jennifer Pence | Karla Peralta |
Steve Peters | Ellen Petrill | Jenn Piercey |
John Poggi | Liz Price | Nikhila Rao |
Jeannie Richter | Liz Rome | Julia Roy |
Diana Ruiz | Sue Russell | Montserrat Sanchez |
Kanthi Sarkar | John Schiffhauer | Melissa Schill |
Julie Scott | Manisha Shah | Suresh Shanmugham |
Kim Sheehan | Tom Shou | Caroline Small |
Stephanie Spaid | Tucker Stanwood | Valori Stitt |
Debra Stout | Susan Strawbridge | Rich Strock |
Rich Strock | Sundar Subbarayan | Tim Taich |
Alison Takata | Norelle Tavrow | Monica Teicher |
Laura Teksler | Gina Thelen | Trevor John Thompson |
William Tinajero-Noriega | Janet Tornow | Andrew Towell |
Charlie Tritschler | Dale Tritschler | Kitty Uhlir |
Holly Van Hart | Janet Vassar | JoAnne Vedati |
JoAnne Chung Vedati | Beth Vidakovits | Meghana Vishwanath |
Robin Vroom | Jennifer Walsh | Cathy Walz |
Ann Wolff | Neil Wolff | Burak Yenier |
Tracey Young |