For more information:
Wendy Walleigh
408-988-8915 x208
wwalleigh@jascc.org

Only with our more than 3,000 volunteers, 1,300 teachers, and 500 donors has Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay been able to serve 31,850 students—16.7% more students than the year before. But we are especially grateful to a key group of contributors who exceeded even their own previous efforts.

Top Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay Contributors:

Berg & Berg / Mission West Properties
City of San Jose
Comerica Bank
Household
Intel
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.

Top In-Kind Contributors:

KICU TV-36
The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

#1 Company Providing Volunteers

Applied Materials

#1 Volunteer Growth

PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.

Top Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay Volunteer Companies

Applied Materials
Bank of America
Household

Fastest Start—Volunteers & Funding

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

10 Year Plus Volunteers

Ken Caveney
Scott Clarke
Dan Duarte
Jack Gudgel
David Heiman
Alfred Mandel
Mark Molau
Patricia Raymond
Frank Rose
San Topham
Pete Trowbridge
Steve Troy
Jamie Van De Ven
Bob Swan

10 Year Plus Teachers

Greg Boyd
Margaret Cang
Liz Chew
Donna Dicker
Judy Downs
Frank Foehr
George Garcia
Leilani Jaffe
Stan Lorente
Kevin Marr
Sal Murietta
Patti Pasetta
Ron Quick
Rick Ragan
Patricia Randazzo
Harry Salgado
Carolyn Wahler
Debbie Whitson

New 5 Year Plus Volunteers

Marissa Bantolino-Schmidt
Joan Cotta
Kish Dill
Jack Moyer
Nicole Orta
Nicole Pelton

New 5 Year Plus Teachers

Doreen Fernandez
Evelyn Guess
Kim James
Gary Lima
Kirk Mansfield
Bonnie Merrick
Cindy Moore
Andrew Pappadakis
Gayle Perl
Bill Smiley
Neil Thomas
Jason Van Benthuysen
Marcia Yasukawa

Since Junior Achievement's local founding in 1953, outstanding teachers, volunteers and donors - corporate, community, and individual - like these have helped 360,000 Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay students become who they are today. As one recent graduate of Foothill High School in San Jose said to his JA volunteer, "I would like to thank you for everything you and Junior Achievement have done for me. JA has been incredibly important in my development into a better, more well rounded person. Without the many JA-sponsored activities, I wouldn't have been able to learn and grow as much as I had in these past few years." He is currently in college studying Computer Science and Technology. We thank each and every one of our contributors who have helped inspire students like him to reach for their dreams - and impact the future of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay.

Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay is the premier K - 12 economic education organization. Globally, Junior Achievement is the largest and fastest-growing nonprofit economic education organization, annually teaching 6 million elementary, middle school and high school students in over 110 countries.  Junior Achievement’s mission is to ensure that every child in America has a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system.  Since 1953, Junior Achievement has partnered with businesses, communities and schools from Silicon Valley to Monterey Bay to teach over 350,000 young people the principles of free enterprise so that they understand business and economics and are workforce-ready. Only Junior Achievement teaches K - 12^th grade students about the relevance of school to their future success by using community and business role models to bring our classroom programs to life.   In multiple classroom visits, these volunteers use their experience and knowledge to help students become workforce-ready by applying critical thinking and school skills to solving real-world problems.  As a result, over 31,000 children from this past year will impact Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay communities as successful individuals, workers and consumers. Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay:  Impacting local economic education one classroom at a time. For more information and to get involved, visit http://www.jascc.org or call 408-988-8915.