Organizations Filed Purposes:
Upward Scholars empowers low-income adults, mostly immigrants, by providing them financial, academic, and community support so they can continue their education, get better jobs, and serve as role models and advocates for their children.
Program #2: Student Support Upward Scholars has always helped students overcome barriers to an education that fits into their lives and goals. The Student Support program was expanded in 2020 to include Hardship Assistance to address the immediate need of food insecurity within our student population as coronavirus pandemic took hold. We sent hundreds of grocery store gift cards directly to students and provided stipends for internet service. The Move Up Initiative, begun in 2019, continues to provide career training with our NannyUp and Habla Más! programs. NannyUp gives talented, nurturing childcare providers the opportunity to advance in their careers as nannies. Habla Más!, provides Upward Scholars students the opportunity to make a steady source of income as Spanish language coaches. The initiative now includes another new program - BusinessUp. In partnership with Centro Community Partners, BusinessUp offers bootcamp workshops to provide students the skills they need to begin their own businesses.
Program #1: Scholarships Scholarships are provided to underserved students who have attended adult schools and community-based organizations in San Mateo county so they can continue their education in community college. Upward Scholars provides scholarships for laptop computers, textbooks, transportation parking and food vouchers for use in campus dining facilities.
Program #3: Student Safety Net In 2020 we added a new program to better meet the needs of the people we serve today and meet the future challenges of our changing economic landscape, especially given the pandemic's direct impact on our students. We launched our first ever student Safety Net Fund (SNF) to support students hardest hit by the pandemic. Students applied to receive support from the SNF to help them cover expenses related to rent, medical care, childcare, utilities, or food, so although they lost jobs and wages, they could continue with their college courses.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Linda Prieto | Executive Director | 40 | $131,498 |
| Matheus Riolfi | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Marilyn Ezrin | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Angie Elizondo-Bryant | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Amado Flores | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Moises Bautista | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Stef Jacobson-Willis | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Anuj Gaggar | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
| Manny Amo | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Erika Pretell | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Weal | Director | 10 | $0 |
| Susan Miller Hornbeek | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kara Rosenberg | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Wendy Keuhnl-Ortiz | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Ryan Schwartz | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Julie Hartstein | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Irma Zoepf | President | 1.25 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
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