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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
Barbara Malina and Scott Wachter 
Samira Rahmatullah and Munir Alam*
Stephen Roberts
Kimberly Sambrook
Yaacov Silberman and Yenhoa Ching  

Chair - $2500+
Nilima Patel

Professor - $1000+
Charles and Rebecca Conradi
Thomas Horn and Shiying Lee
Philip Laird
Sharon Landwehr
Michael and Naomi Neruda
Rishi Sinha
Victor Smallberg
Dominique Walterspiel

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

Mentor - $500+
Nabeel Ahmed
Lupita Beagle
Jean Gordon Kocienda
Claire Mills and Tom Kenny*
David Nicoll
Jane Pak and Lucian Beebe*
Emily Rains
Brooke Roundy
Tarja and Kenneth Settles
David Strasburg
Justin Tansuwan

Counselor - $250+
Shuli De La Fuente-Lau
Benjamin Cook and Diana Scearce
Tuuyen Do 
Chrysty Esperanza and Scott Jones
Jonathan Frankel
Nikhil Gadia
Mary-Lynn Garrett
Julia and Kevin Hartz*
Chloe Hewlett
Leonides Jong
Purushotham Kamath
David Kimport
Martina and Michael Knee
Ron Lally and Lauren Houde
Ko Ko Lay
Merritt Maduke
Brandee Marckmann and William Mooney*
Sandy Naing
Elizabeth Read
Kip Stringfellow and Claire Collins
Laura Vaudreuil and John Pedigo*
Laura Wallsten-Cook and David Cook*

Coach - $100+
Sonya Abrams
Kim Bhesania
Debbie Brown
Laura Chicurel*
Kristin and Matthew Campbell 
Ronald Cantoni
Karen Sue Cotter*
Leslie Hernandez Dinneen
Sophie Froelich
Nikhil Gadia
Brian Glynn
Veronica and Robert Harris 
Rhonda Clark Ilgunas
Purushotham Kamath
Fonda Karelitz
Emma Kerr
Theresa Lamadine
Grace Lau*
Helena Leiner
Mark Lynch
Richard Marliave*
Marija Micic*
Mimi Nguyen
Mimi Nomura-Weingrow
Estella and Tim Nyunt
Yuliya Oryol 
Carl Joseph and Celia Yeh-Rulin Pascual
Viju Patel
Divya Pathak
Pearl Than Pe*
Judith Pogue*
Tiffany Price*
Jean and Edward Ranck*
Aaron Rashba*
Elma and Nestor Rivera*
Gail Roberts
Alan Ryter
Deborah and Stephen Shefler*
Julia and Fred Shepardson
Lisa Ginn Steel 
Nina and Gabriel Stricker* 
Vasan Sundar
Johanna and Ralph Tondre*
Joseph and 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