This month of Thanksgiving, we are thrilled to highlight our sponsor, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Headquartered in Redwood City, CZI was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges—from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of local communities. CZI’s mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and

This month, we’re highlighting Nintendo of America. Nintendo the first sponsor to commit for 2022, and we appreciate their continued support. In 2020, Nintendo sponsored a scholarship for Isabella Mattioli from Carlmont High School. Isabella has a long history of volunteerism starting before she entered high school. Since then, she has amassed several hours of

Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City is an accredited, not-for-profit community hospital providing innovative and exceptional health care for generations of Bay Area residents. Sequoia Hospital offers many services, including expert care for mothers and babies, heart and vascular care, advanced orthopedics, and comprehensive emergency care. It is consistently recognized as one of the

We’re pleased to announce that Tony Bullock was recently elected to the Sequoia Awards Board of Directors. And he’s put us in some fast company. Not only is Tony the president and co-owner of Black Mountain Properties, LLC, he also is an accomplished race car driver and veteran of the Cooper Tires Prototype Lite Series,

This month, we’re delighted to highlight our sponsor, BKF Engineers. For more than 106 years, BKF Engineers has served California, developing and rehabilitating public infrastructure including utility systems, streets, educational and healthcare facilities. They remain a privately held, locally-owned firm with a staff of over 450 engineers, surveyors, and planners. BKF serves the West Coast

This month, we are thrilled to highlight our sponsor, Oracle. For more than four decades, Oracle has delivered innovation upon which entire industries have been built. The company began as a startup in 1977 before going public in 1986 and continues to empower businesses of all sizes with enterprise cloud computing solutions worldwide. The company

Thanks to Climate Magazine for highlighting our 2021 Sequoia Awards winners in their June issue. We’re so fortunate to have a great local magazine committed to celebrating the best of Redwood City.  You can view the issue here: https://climaterwc.com/current-issue/

This month, we’d like to shine a spotlight on the Alice W. Coghlan R.N. Scholarship, sponsored by the Bizzarro and Howard families. Since 2018, Liza & Frank Bizzarro and Diane & Dr. Steven Howard have teamed up to fund this student scholarship as a way to promote volunteerism and the pursuit of medicine. The scholarship

Congrats to another member of the Sequoia Awards class of 2017. Ryan Traynor checked in to let us know he recently graduated from USC with a degree in Business of Cinematic Arts and already is working in his field. We are so proud of all our alumni!

Congratulations to our 2017 Outstanding Student of the Year Karolina Soto Villa on her graduation from UC Merced.  We are so proud of her, and we know she will put her BA in Public Health to good use helping others.  We love hearing from our Sequoia Awards alumni. Keep in touch and let us know