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 |