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Distinguished Donors
In the realm of education, nothing represents excellence quite like a gold star. Any RAFT investor of $25,000 or more receives special "gold stars" and their name printed in foot high letters on our recognition wall - visible to over 10,000 people each year
The following list represents cumulative giving by RAFT's donors since the organization's inception and was last updated May, 2010.
Benefactor ($1,000,000 and above)
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation*
Sobrato Development Companies - 5 million dollar donation of RAFT's Sunnyvale Warehouse (Sobrato Center)
TOSA Foundation*
Pacesetter ($500,000 to $999,999)
Cadence Design Systems
Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Hewlett Packard
The Kresge Foundation
Morgan Family Foundation*
National Semiconductor Corp.
City of San Jose
Philanthropist ($250,000 to $499,000)
Agilent Technologies Foundation
Applied Materials
Cisco Systems
Intel
Mericos Foundation
Oracle*
Sand Hill Foundation
U.S. Dept. of Education
Valley Foundation
Investor ($100,000 to $249,999)
Adobe
Alameda County Recycling Board
Laura & Jesse Ambrose
AMD
S.H. Cowell Foundation
Mary A. Crocker Trust*
Nan & Chuck Geschke
The Mark and Carolyn Guidry Foundation
Joan & Michael Hackworth
IBM
Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
John and James Knight Foundation
NetApp
Rambus Community Fund
Reddere Foundation
Gordon Russell (Sequoia Capital)
SanDisk
San Jose Mercury News
SGI
Silicon Valley Charity Ball Foundation
The Sobrato Family Foundation
Wayne & Jean Suzuki
Symantec
Whitney Education Foundation
The Hans and Elizabeth Wolf Foundation
Yahoo Employee Foundation
Leader ($50,000 - $99,999)
Fatima D. AbuZayyad
Aspect Communications
Robert Brownlee Foundation
eBay Foundation
GM Nameplate
David Hale & Laura Torres
Handel Sunrise Foundation
Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation*
Estate of Burrel Leonard
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space
Microsoft
Moore Family Foundation
The Noyce Foundation
Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme
Peninsula Community Foundation
PG&E
Roche Bioscience
Rossi Family Foundation
Cynthia & Allen Ruby
Seven Springs Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Colleen & Geoff Tate
The Varian Foundation
Wells Fargo
Xilinx
Partner ($25,000 - $49,999)
Affymetrix
Agilent Technologies
ALZA Corporation
Asyst Technologies
Atkinson Foundation*
Ann & Alden Danner
Ned & Jimi Barnholt
BEA Foundation
Boston Scientific Foundation
John & Elaine Chambers
The Chew Crew
Civic Ventures
Comerica Bank
Compton Foundation
Corrigan-Walla Foundation
The County of San Mateo RecycleWorks*
Ecolab Foundation
E*Trade Financial
Glenn & Bobbe George
Howard Graham Family
Stella B. Gross Charitable Trust
Guidant Foundation
Luke B. Hancock Foundation
Kathryn & Kirk Hanson
Heaven's Helping Hand Foundation
Hitz Foundation
Homestead Technologies
The James Irvine Foundation
KPMG
LifeScan
Life Technologies Foundation
Timothy & Anne-Marie Lohse
Mayfield Fund
Chris & Webb McKinney
Lynn and Susan Packard Orr
Reve Foundation
SAP
Siemens Building Technologies, Inc.
Mary & Ed Simon
The Skoll Fund
Synopsys
Zane Taylor
Donna Whitney & Uwe Kladde
Builder ($10,000 - $24,999)
Abbott Laboratories Fund
Albert Acevedo
Amgen
Louis Bellardo
Theodore M. Bowen Foundation
California Casualty Group
California Integrated Waste Management Board
Calpine Foundation
Chambers Family Foundation
Diane & Stan Chinchen
Peter Cross
Allison & John Danner
Yvette Del Prado
J. Philip and Jennifer DiNapoli Foundation
John & Deanne Ebner
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Flextronics Foundation
Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation
Genencor, A Danisco Division
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
Greater Bay Bancorp Foundation
Amy Greenfield & Mike Santullo
Bob & Marion Grimm
Jean Halloran
Anna Harris
Judy Heyboer
Hitachi High Technologies
IDEO
Integrated Device Technology
Renee & Paul Jacobs
Cynthia D. Johnson
Junior League of San Jose
Juniper Networks
Kieve Foundation
The Mary Lemmon Fund
Sayang & Stan Lim
Bob & Janice Lisbonne
Meredith McClintock & Steve Humphreys
Dean O. Morton
NEC Electronics America, Inc.
Northrop Grumman
NVIDIA
Palm, Inc.
Palo Alto Community Fund
Peery Foundation
Randy Pond
QUALCOMM
Quantum Corporation
Trudy & Terry Rose
San Francisco Forty Niner Foundation
Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union
Seagate Technology, Inc.
Sharks Foundation
Stopwaste.org
Levi Strauss & Co.
Morris Stulsaft Foundation
TRW Electromagnetic Systems Division
Western Digital Foundation
Wheatley Foundation
Douglas White
Hans and Elizabeth Wolf Foundation
Mentor ($5,000 - $9,999)
Adaptec, Inc.
Altera Corporation
Anonymous
Ray Bingham
Channels Fund
William H. Cilker Family Foundation
Ann & David Crockett
Deloitte
Drapkin California Charitable Foundation
David Falkenburg & Michele Hemeryck
First 5 Santa Clara County
Bill Fletcher
Peter & Patty Fletcher
Flextronics Foundation
General Electric Company
Give Something Back
Jan Half *
Brian & Carolyn Halla
Gail & Jim Hallenbeck
Harari Family Charitable Fund
Christine Harris Fund
Patty Quillin Hastings
Darlene Imazeki
Kinetics Group
Barbara & Michael Klausner
Colleen Lukoff
Nancy Mueller
Anne & Ron Murphy
Gib and Susan Myers Fund
Novell, Inc.
Jin & C.S. Park
Hugh M. and Julie J. Pearce Foundation
RMC Water and Environment
Santa Clara County Office of Education
SBC
SEGA
Spansion
Star One Credit Union
City of Sunnyvale
Nancy Thomas
Toole Family Trust
Trimble Navigation
Rebecca Wolf
Mark Zamudio
*Also a member of the RAFT Redwood City Founders' Circle
