Help us support the schools with a grant of $548,000

With the end of the school year less than two months away, we’ve raised just over $450,000, on our way to funding $548,000 worth of programs and essential tools that enrich our students’ education: 

  • Art classes for all kindergarten through fourth grade students
  • Music classes for kindergarten to third grade students and recorder classes for fourth graders
  • Band, orchestra or art classes for fifth grade students
  • An honor choir open to fifth graders from every elementary school
  • Maintenance for District’s musical instruments available for fifth graders and middle-schoolers
  • Training for recess and PE staff in the Playworks approach to a healthy, inclusive playground culture
  • Junior coach training for fourth and fifth graders to hone their skills in conflict resolution and leadership
  • Resupply of consumables in the FOSS kits that provide hands-on science for kindergarten through fifth graders
  • Extended-day middle school electives like jazz band, Destination Imagination, media arts, and more
  • Referees and transportation for middle school sports teams
  • Laptop carts to facilitate science, technology, engineering and math education 

MVEF relies on current year donations, so please give now for this school year’s programs.

MVEF-supported programs touch every child in the Mountain View Whisman School District.  Whether a child is learning about trees in science, reproducing Van Gogh’s Starry Night, operating a television camera for CMS TV, or scoring a goal for the soccer team, he or she has access to these programs because of donations from parents, community members, local businesses and community groups.

Gala and Auction Raise More Than $85,000

Thank you to all our Gala sponsors, donors, participating restaurants, volunteers, and attendees.  With your help, the 2013 MVEF Gala and Auction brought in more than $85,000. Reaching this milestone depends on the support of sponsors, including Google, Synopysys, Sodexo, Keygent, Greystone West, MRC, Artik Art & Architecture, Crittenden PTA, Employee Benefits Services, GCA Law Partners, Sonitrol, Burns Loew, Jack Schreder & Associates, Recology, Helmings Auto Repair and Rouleau Orthdontics.

The Taste of Mountain View theme was very successful and we look forward to producing a similar event next year. The eight excellent restaurants that participated this year set a very high bar & we thank them for their generosity:  Agave, Cascal, Cucina Venti, Milk Pail, Morocco's, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Sakoon & Scott's Seafood.  

 

Since 1984, Mountain View Educational Foundation (MVEF) has worked in partnership with parents, the Mountain View Whisman School District, the community and businesses to raise money for essential K-8 programs no longer funded by the state and to provide a high-quality and well-rounded education for all our students.