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Your donations provide essential support, without which we would not be able to:

Build lasting, life-changing relationships between volunteers and students like Brett and Peter.

Support refugee youth like Richard in beating the odds and doing the impossible.

Empower refugees to lead change in their own communities through our Refugee Community Navigator Intern Program.

Enable families like the Copes to feel the pride of becoming U.S. citizens.

Provide refugee youth with a multicultural camp experience, where they gain leadership skills and have a blast in San Francisco's Presidio Park.

Offer critical family support to our highest need clients--recently resettled refugees--like Lah Doh.

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OUR SUPPORTERS

Refugee Transitions shows heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to our various supporters who allow us to fulfill our mission to help the community and change the world. Undoubtedly, our supporters have shown their faith and trust in Refugee Transitions by giving back to the community through their generous contributions used to sponsor our various programs and services.  Below is a list of all our supporters, categorized by sector.

2012 DONORS

* denotes three-year donor

President - $15,000+
Anonymous

Provost - $10,000+
Wolf Charitable Fund

Dean - $5,000+
EMIKA Fund
Samira Rahmatullah & Munir Alam*
Stephen Roberts
Yaacov Silberman & Yenhoa Ching
Victor Smallberg 

Chair - $2500+
Barbara Malina & Scott Wachter
Nilima Patel
Kimberly Sambrook & David Fetterman

Professor - $1000+
Will Horn & Shiying Lee
Melissa & John Kreisa*
Philip Laird
Sharon Landwehr
Michael & Naomi Neruda
Rishi Sinha
Dominique Walterspiel

Teacher - $750+
Gabe Brosbe
Charles & Rebecca Conradi
Brian Hicks & Melanie Grace*
Ankit Jain*
Mari Loria & Alden Mudge
Srinivasan Mahadhanapuram
Amish Patel
Chris Upjohn 

Mentor - $500+
Anonymous (2)
Nabeel Ahmed
Paul & Deborah Baker
Lupita Beagle
Claire Mills & Tom Kenny*
David Nicoll
Mimi Nomura-Weingrow
Jane Pak & Lucian Beebe*
Emily Rains
Tarja & Kenneth Settles
David Strasburg

Counselor - $250+
Anonymous (2)
John & Stephanie Allen
Benjamin Cook & Diana Scearce
Shuli De La Fuente-Lau
Tuuyen Do
Marissa Escalante
Chrysty Esperanza & Scott Jones
Nikhil Gadia
Mary-Lynn Garrett
Julia and Kevin Hartz*
Clothilde Hewlett
Leonides Jong
David Kimport
Roslyn Kleinsinger
Martina & Michael Knee
Ron Lally & Lauren Houde
Ko Ko Lay
Merritt Maduke
Brandee Marckmann & William Mooney*
Meyers Charitable Family Fund
Sandy Naing
Reverend Irene Pak
Elizabeth Read
Kip Stringfellow & Claire Collins
Laura Vaudreuil & John Pedigo*
Laura Wallsten-Cook & David Cook

Coach - $100+
Anonymous (3)
Sonya Abrams
Kristin Belshaw 
Kim Bhesania
Debbie Brown
Laura Chicurel*
Kristin & Matthew Campbell 
Ronald Cantoni
Karen Sue Cotter*
Leslie Hernandez Dinneen
Sophie Froelich
Fonda Karelitz
Emma Kerr
Theresa Lamadine
Grace Lau*
Helena Leiner
Owen Lin
Richard Marliave*
Joseph McCrossen & Kristine Zeigler
Marija Micic*
Estella & Tim Nyunt
Yuliya Oryol 
Carl Joseph & Celia Yeh-Rulin Pascual
Vijendrakumar Patel
Pearl Than Pe*
Judith Pogue*
Tiffany Price*
Jean & Edward Ranck*
Aaron Rashba*
Elma & Nestor Rivera*
Deborah & Stephen Shefler*
Lisa Ginn Steel 
Nina & Gabriel Stricker* 
Vasan Sundar
Johanna & Ralph Tondre*
Jerry & Deborah Van Atta*
John & Vivian Vaudreuil
Joseph & Becky Vaudreuil
Bianca Walterspiel


Monthly Donors
Reverend Irene Pak

 

FOUNDATION GRANTS

Cal Humanities 
Commonweal Foundation
The Community Foundation for National Capital Region
Everett Family Fund
The Outdoor Foundation
The Rotary Club of San Jose
Silicon Valley Community Foundation (through partnership with Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County)
The Three Graces Foundation
Zellerbach Family Foundation (through partnership with Oakland International High School)

CORPORATE

Aetna Foundation 
Dow Jones
Orrick
Schwab Charitable Fund
Silicon Valley Bank Foundation

LOCAL BUSINESS

Flying Yoga
Paragon Real Estate Group 
Phil's Sliders

EMPLOYEE MATCHING

BD
Cisco 
The Clorox Company
Electronic Arts
Farella Braun & Martel LLP
Google 
Kaiser 
Mitchell Kapor 
Oracle Corporation

STATE AND FEDERAL

AmeriCorps VISTA
California Department of Education
County of Alameda
Oakland Fund for Children and Youth
Oakland Unified School District Refugee/Asylee Student Assistance Program
Office of Refugee Resettlement (through partnership with Lao Family Community Development)

FAITH COMMUNITY

St. Luke's Korean Presbyterian Church
Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church

COMMUNITY PARTNER

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
Oakland International High School
San Francisco International High School 

View our supporters from previous years:

Supporters: 2011
Supporters: 2010
Supporters: 2009