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 |