The Cisco Systems Foundation awarded Silicon Valley Impact Grants in two annual cycles -- one in spring and one in fall -- in fiscal year 2005.

Fiscal Year 2005, Spring Cycle

AnewAmerica Community Corporation
Program Title / Location: Assets for New Americans: Virtual Business Incubator / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Serving low-income communities with anti-poverty strategies, asset-building, business development and socially responsible community activities.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 131 directly

Aphasia Center of California
Program Title / Location: Communication Treatment Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing speech-language treatment to uninsured and underinsured individuals with aphasia.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 20 individuals

Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
Program Title / Location: Leadership Networks / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Narrowing the achievement gap in under-performing schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 70,000 students

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Community-Based Mentoring Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing long-term mentoring for high-risk children and youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 240 youth

Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula
Program Title / Location: Learning Lab / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Developing literacy skills through technology classes for disadvantaged students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 11 students

Building with Books
Program Title / Location: After School Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Engaging teenagers in community service programs.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 300 students

Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
Program Title / Location: CEN Leaders Institute / Milpitas, CA
Impact: Strengthening and sustaining nonprofit leaders and enhancing the capacities of their organizations to more effectively serve their communities.
Cisco Funding Area: Technology & Innovation in Nonprofits
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 18 Executive Directors

Children's Empowerment, Inc.
Program Title / Location: School Homework Centers / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing tutoring support to students from underperforming secondary schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100 students

Cleo Eulau Center
Program Title / Location: Resiliency Consultation Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Training teachers to foster resiliency in at-risk students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $13,000 / 500 students & 25 teachers/staff

Community Health Awareness Council
Program Title / Location: Village Program / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Reducing high-risk behaviors in students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 255 students

Community Resources for Science
Program Title / Location: Community in the Classroom / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Providing trained volunteer science role models to elementary students and teachers in underserved schools in Alameda County.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 2,250 students, 90 teachers, 40 volunteers

Community School of Music and Arts
Program Title / Location: Music in Action with Artists-in-Residence / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Providing professional artists-in-residence to underserved schools to complement study of diverse musical cultures.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $6,000 / 5900 students

Compass Community Services
Program Title / Location: Clara House / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Educating homeless families to become economically self-sufficient.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 25 parents and 50 children

Continuum HIV Day Services
Program Title / Location: Tenderloin Care Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing nourish food to homeless and marginally housed people with HIV.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 200 homeless people with AIDS

East Palo Alto Mural Art Project
Program Title / Location: Teen Mural Program and History Through Hip Hop / Stanford, CA
Impact: Combining the study of history and art form to create murals in the community.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $3,500 / 50 students

Eden I&R, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Eden I&R's Alameda County Housing Program / Hayward, CA
Impact: Helping low-income families and individuals find safe and affordable housing and assisting them in becoming self-sufficient.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 220 people

EHC LifeBuilders
Program Title / Location: Educational EDGE (Encourage, Develop, Grow, Empower) Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Increasing the educational level obtained by homeless and runaway youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 250 youth

El Camino Youth Symphony Association
Program Title / Location: Music Education Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing programs that foster relationships between youth and musical artists through the interactive performance.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 420 students

El Centro de Libertad
Program Title / Location: Youth Intervention Program / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Providing drug and alcohol outpatient services and prevention education to youth in San Mateo County.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 800 students

Emergency Shelter Program, Inc
Program Title / Location: Children's Services Program Enhancements / Hayward, CA
Impact: Counseling for children of domestic violence victims.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 113 children

Family Service Agency of San Mateo County
Program Title / Location: Senior Nutrition Program at Fair Oaks Community Center / San Mateo, CA
Impact: Feeding low-income, frail elderly residents of the North Fair Oaks community of Redwood City.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 515 seniors

Francisco Connection
Program Title / Location: Student Success Program / San Francisco , CA
Impact: Providing adult mentoring to at risk youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 342 youths

Franklin McKinley Education Foundation
Program Title / Location: Mathematics Engineering Science Acadmeics / San Jose, CA
Impact: Improving academic levels of math success in inner city students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 175 Students

Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc. ("FLY")
Program Title / Location: Peer Leadership Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Increasing youth volunteerism and leadership skills while decreasing juvenile crime.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 100

Friends for Youth, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Academic Support Project / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Providing one-to-one mentoring and academic enrichment opportunities.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 125 at-risk students

Future Families, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Kids Coming Home / San Jose, CA
Impact: Placing abused children into safe and stable foster or adoptive homes.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 40 children

<Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: In-School Science Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing Educational enrichment science classes to low-income students in grades 2-6.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 4,000 students

Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
Program Title / Location: Eureka Teen Achievement Program / San Leandro, CA
Impact: Providing college-preparatory math, science, and technology skills to low-income girls.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100 teen girls

Golden Gate Community Inc.
Program Title / Location: Employment Sponsorship Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing job training, experience and mentoring for at-risk youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 55 youth

Happy Hollow Corporation
Program Title / Location: Happy Hollow Park & Zoo Education Program Scholarships / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing natural science education programs about wildlife, animal habitats and nature.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1,800 students

Homeless Garden Project
Program Title / Location: Women's Organic Flower Enterprise / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Training homeless and low-income women for re-entry into the mainstream workforce.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 4 female trainees

Homeless Prenatal Program
Program Title / Location: Community Health Worker Training Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Moving women from welfare to work through job training.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 16 women

Huckleberry Youth Programs
Program Title / Location: VIP (Violence Is Preventable) Girls Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Addressing the needs of at-risk young women in San Francisco.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 100 women

International Institute of San Francisco
Program Title / Location: Leadership Development Training / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Increasing the skills and leadership ability of community members, to increase civic participation and build healthier neighborhoods.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 15 participants

Japanese Community Youth Council
Program Title / Location: Upward Bound / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing comprehensive college preparation for under served high school students in San Francisco.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 76 students

Jeremiah's Promise, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Basic Human Needs, Case Management and Life Skills Development for Clients of Jeremiah's Promise / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Developing self-sufficiency and psychological healing in emancipated foster youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 10 youth

Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
Program Title / Location: Predatory Lending Education Project / San Jose, CA
Impact: Empowering minorities to prevent predatory lending practices.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 80 individuals

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Program Title / Location: School for the Arts / San Pablo, CA
Impact: Providing enrichment classes in schools highlighting Mexican art forms.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 107 students

Marine Science Institute
Program Title / Location: Exploring our Bay / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Providing hands-on science education programs in underserved schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1,330 students

Meals On Wheels of San Francisco
Program Title / Location: Mission District Route / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Serving home-delivered meals and social service to homebound seniors in San Francisco's diverse and underserved Mission District.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 15 seniors

Mission Dignity/San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds
Program Title / Location: Youth Leadership Training Employment Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Supporting access to educational resources to help underserved students graduate from high school and apply to college despite academic and life challenges.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1,500 students

Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Cultural Arts Education Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Introducing elementary and middle school students to multicultural music, dance, theatre, and visual arts.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 1,500

Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence
Program Title / Location: Youth and Children's Services / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing psychological assistance to abused children.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 75 children

Nuestra Casa
Program Title / Location: Nuestra Casa English as a Second Language Program / East Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Teaching participatory, context-based adult English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for East Palo Alto residents.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 200 students

Pacific Autism Center for Education
Program Title / Location: Vocational Training Program / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Providing one-to-one vocational instruction for Autistic students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 50 students

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Program Title / Location: 2005-2006 Cultural Kaleidoscope Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Using visual arts to build unity, understanding and positive relationships between divergent socio economic communities.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 1,300 individuals

Partners in School Innovation
Program Title / Location: Oak Grove School District Partnership / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Improving the literacy skills of low-performing elementary students in the Oak Grove School District of East San Jose.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2162 students

Peninsula Family Connections
Program Title / Location: Leadership Development through Volunteerism and Civic Engagement / San Carlos, CA
Impact: Training parent leaders to become lifelong advocates for their children.s education.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $9,000 / 350 individuals

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Program Title / Location: Sounds All Around/Young People's Concert / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Developing understanding of music and its origins in relationship to history, literature, art, math and science.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 2500 students

Public Allies, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Capacity Building for Non-Profit Partners / Milpitas, CA
Impact: Training non-profit organizations through outcome-based course programs.
Cisco Funding Area: Technology & Innovation in Nonprofits
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 25 Nonprofit Professionals

Resources for Community Development
Program Title / Location: Resident Services and Empowerment Program / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Providing supportive services for formerly homeless families and people with disabilities to enable them to retain their housing and stay independent.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 75 residents

Rubicon Programs Inc.
Program Title / Location: Fragile Families Working Parents Program / Richmond, CA
Impact: Increasing the economic self-sufficiency of very low income parents through job training and support services that address family issues and child support barriers that keep parents apart and families fragmented.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 31 families

Sacred Heart Community Service
Program Title / Location: Housing Assistance Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing rent and utility assistance to help families obtain or maintain stable housing.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 40-120 individuals

Santa Cruz Women's Health Center
Program Title / Location: Expanded Care for Chronically Ill, Uninsured Women Ages 40-64 / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Continuing expanded health care for chronically ill women.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1000

Southwest YMCA
Program Title / Location: Castro Middle School Afterschool Program / Saratoga, CA
Impact: Engaging students in hands-on learning and community service.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 60 students

Springboard Forward
Program Title / Location: Star Performers Volunteer Development / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Training volunteer job coaches for entry level workers.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approx. 20 individuals

St. Joseph's Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Program Title / Location: Deaf Families at Risk: Anger Management Program / Hayward, CA
Impact: Providing anger management education for deaf families experiencing domestic violence.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 60

St. Vincent de Paul Society
Program Title / Location: Rosalie House / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing emergency shelter and support services for battered women and their children.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 25 women/children

Sunset District Community Development
Program Title / Location: Expand Juvenile Justice Program to include youth employment component / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing job training, mentoring, and employment workshops for juvenile offenders.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 15 youth

Support Network For Battered Women
Program Title / Location: STAR (Students Talking About Relationships) / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Educating students about the warning signs of dating violence and offering assistance and resources if needed.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 480 students

Teach For America - Bay Area
Program Title / Location: Recruit, Train and Support San Jose Teachers / Emeryville, CA
Impact: Recruiting, training and professional development of two San Jose Teacher Corps Members.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 170 K-12 students

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association
Program Title / Location: After School Academy / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Engaging, challenging, motivating, and guiding children and youth in kindergarten through fifth grade toward academic and personal success.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 126 youth and their families

The Bread Project
Program Title / Location: The Bread Project / Oakland, CA
Impact: Training and placement assistant for disadvantaged adults for employed in the food industry.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 8 adults

The Peninsula Bridge Program
Program Title / Location: Year-Round Program and Parent Education / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Providing educational opportunities for underserved middle school students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 220 students

Upwardly Global
Program Title / Location: Job Seeker Education and Placement Services / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing education and resources to underemployed immigrant and refugee professionals in order for them to rebuild their career and become self sufficient.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 25 adults

Women's Audio Mission
Program Title / Location: Digital Media Skills for Women and Girls / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Narrowing the gender gap in media technology professions and increasing economic opportunity for women and girls through digital media and technology classes.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 280 students

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Fiscal Year 2005, Fall Cycle

(AIDS Alliance dba) The Center for AIDS Services
Program Title / Location: Food program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing meals to dying, impoverished people.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 400 individuals

African Immigrant & Refugee Resource Center
Program Title / Location: Computer Training Classes / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing work-readiness technical training programs.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $6,000 / 40 students

After-School All-Stars of Greater San Jose
Program Title / Location: Miracles / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing a comprehensive outcome based after-school program to teach children technology, educational, and life skills.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 57 students

At The Crossroads
Program Title / Location: Outreach Volunteer Coordinator / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Recruiting, training, and retaining skilled volunteers for street outreach to homeless youth in San Francisco.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 700 individuals

Bay Area Community Services
Program Title / Location: Meals on Wheels / Oakland, CA
Impact: Delivering meal services to more than 1,000 homebound seniors.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1000 seniors

Bill Wilson Center
Program Title / Location: Employment Education Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Assisting homeless youth find and retain employment, a first-step to self-sufficiency.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100 youth

Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland
Program Title / Location: Education and Career Development / Oakland, CA
Impact: Helping Oakland's young people to succeed in the workplace of the 21st Century.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 29 Students

California Academy of Sciences
Program Title / Location: Careers in Science / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing high school students from underserved communities with opportunities to learn core science concepts, explore potential science careers through a paid work environment, and create youth ambassadors for science and ecology.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 50 students

Catholic Charities CYO
Program Title / Location: Meals on Wheels / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Supporting and feeding homebound seniors and disabled adults.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 620 seniors and disabled adults

Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation
Program Title / Location: Student Programs / Oakland, CA
Impact: Enhancing the science education of Bay Area K-12 students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 4,000 students

Challenge Learning Center
Program Title / Location: Leading to Empowerment and Prevention (LEAP) / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Developing leadership skills of middle school students to be healthy, caring, successful and responsible role models in their school community.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 54 students

Community Breast Health Project
Program Title / Location: The Gabriella Patser Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing underserved men and women access to high-quality breast cancer diagnostic services to make a difference in their chances for early detection, treatment and survival.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 28 women/men could have diagnostic testing.

Community Housing Partnership
Program Title / Location: Employment Training / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing hands-on training to help formerly homeless adults re-enter the workforce.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $14,000 / 130 adults

Community Partners for Youth, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Step-Up to Brighter Futures / San Jose, CA
Impact: Expanding community involvement through partnerships that provide low-income, high risk, and under-performing youth in the Bay Area with skills and support services needed to achieve their potential.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 70 students, their parents, mentors & teachers

Crisis Support Services of Alameda County
Program Title / Location: Teens for Life / Oakland, CA
Impact: Educating to prevent teen suicide by teaching to recognize signs of suicidal behavior and to ask for help when feeling hopeless.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1,400 students

Day School Summerbridge
Program Title / Location: Reading/Writing Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing underserved children with equal access to educational opportunities through one-on-one instruction from graduate students enrolled in the University of San Francisco Masters in Teaching Reading Program.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 75 students and 50-60 tutors and teachers

Digital Clubhouse Network
Program Title / Location: Digitally Abled Producers Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Utilizing the power of digital technology to build a more tolerant, inclusive and compassionate community by helping to enrich public education, promote public health and encourage a greater appreciation of cultural diversity.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 200-250 youth and adults

Edgewood Center for Children and Families
Program Title / Location: Kinship Youth Services / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Helping children achieve their academic potential in math and literacy.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 75 youth

El Camino Hospital Foundation
Program Title / Location: Adult Immunization Project / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Providing immunizations to at-risk, uninsured, low-income, underserved adults in Northern Santa Clara County in order to prevent transmission of communicable diseases.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 1,661 adults

Eldergivers
Program Title / Location: Art With Elders / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Lessening the isolation of the elderly through art programs.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 40 to 50 elderly students

Foundation for a College Education
Program Title / Location: College Bound High School Program / East Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Supporting high school students and their families in their quest to enroll in and graduate from a four-year college or university.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 40 students

Girls For A Change
Program Title / Location: Girl Action Teams / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing tools and resources to empower girls to design, lead, fund and implement a social change project each year that moves them from spectators to leaders.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 50 girls

Hospice of the Valley
Program Title / Location: End-of-Life Services / San Jose, CA
Impact: Meeting end-of-life needs for low-income seniors.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 10 patient families

Industry Initiatives for Science & Math Education
Program Title / Location: Teacher retention in Silicon Valley Underperforming Schools / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Summer programs for science/math/technology teachers in low-performing schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 20 teachers, serving 2,500 students

InnVision the Way Home
Program Title / Location: InnVision Youth Development Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Promoting healthy development of homeless youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 270 youth

Institute on Aging
Program Title / Location: Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention Services / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Combating elder depression & suicide through a 24-hour toll-free hotline designed to meet the specific needs of at-risk older adults.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 10,001+ seniors

Jewish Family and Children's Services
Program Title / Location: Peninsula On the Mark Mentoring Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Matching at-risk youth aged 7 to 18 with adult and older teen mentors for weekly one-to-one meetings providing a stable adult advocate and role model.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 20 mentors

Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Middle and High School Workforce Readiness Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Preparing teens with the skills and knowledge to enter the workforce and/or seek higher education.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $14,000 / 425 teens

KIDPOWER*TEENPOWER*FULLPOWER International
Program Title / Location: Physical Safety Skill Training / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Training children to increase personal safety and self-esteem, while coaching parents and teachers how to teach these skills and incorporate into K-12 school curricula.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 280 (125 children,125 parents and 30 teachers)

La Clinica de La Raza - Fruitvale Health Project, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Proyecto Cambio (Project Change) / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing individuals and families with knowledge and skills to become more aware of, and deal effectively with, domestic violence issues.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 25 individuals

Larkin Street Youth Services
Program Title / Location: HIRE UP Education and Employment Initiative / San Francisco, CA
Impact: EEmpowering homeless and runaway youth in San Francisco to achieve long term self-sufficiency through education and employment services.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 50 homeless and runaway youth

Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Program Title / Location: Food Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing hot meals and food baskets to low-income people.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 500 people

Mercy Housing California
Program Title / Location: After School Enrichment Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Expanding the AHA! After school program to children ages 6 to 18 at Plaza Maria site project.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 76 children

National Kidney Foundation of Northern California
Program Title / Location: Healthy Kidneys for Life / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Educating at-risk children about kidney disease and screening for disease warning signs.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 540 children.

New Connections
Program Title / Location: HIV/AIDS Services / Concord, CA
Impact: Enabling low-income people living with HIV/AIDS to have healthier lives through better access to critical health and support services via managed care workers.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 300 clients

New Horizons School
Program Title / Location: Transitional Program for Homeless Children / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Addressing homeless issues of children.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 51-100 children

North Peninsula Neighborhood Services Center, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Safety Net - Moving Towards Self-Sufficiency / S San Francisco, CA
Impact: Assisting low-income families in San Mateo County to become self-sufficient though the use of low-cost financial tools and tax options available to them.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 8,600 individuals

OpNet Community Ventures, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Technology Training Courses / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Empowering independence in low-income youth through career track technology training.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 60 students

Pacifica School Volunteers
Program Title / Location: Helping Children Succeed in School / Pacifica, CA
Impact: Recruiting, training, and placement of volunteers in classrooms to help improve academic performance and self-esteem of students performing below grade level.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1200 students

Peninsula Stroke Association
Program Title / Location: Collateral Update / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing a free comprehensive resource directory for stroke survivors and their caregivers. Directory revised every 2 years.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 175-350 individuals

Project Cornerstone
Program Title / Location: "Creating Caring School Climates Together" / San Jose, CA
Impact: Promoting safe, caring school climates so that ALL students are accepted, respected, expected and supported to succeed in school and all areas of life.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1400 students

Project High Expectations Learning Program
Program Title / Location: Project H.E.L.P. / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Developing a local model for early academic interventions that can be rolled out nationally.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 150 students

Project Match Inc
Program Title / Location: Senior Group Residence Program / Milpitas, CA
Impact: Providing opportunity for longer, high quality lives of seniors with income less then $1,500 a month.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 37 low-income seniors

Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley
Program Title / Location: Rebuilding Days 2005 / San Jose, CA
Impact: Repairing and rehabilitating Child Development Center.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 250 individuals

Recording For The Blind & Dyslexic
Program Title / Location: Learning Through Listening Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Expanding digital audio textbook program into underserved schools in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 90 Students

Refugee Transitions
Program Title / Location: Bridge 2-Success / Oakland, CA
Impact: Developing the academic and career readiness skills of underprivileged refugee youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 25 youth and their parents

Resource Area For Teachers
Program Title / Location: Teacher Development / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing education programs professional training and hands-on materials for thousands of local teachers.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 6000 educators

Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators
Program Title / Location: Silicon Valley School Partnership Program / San Francisco, Ca, CA
Impact: Helping six high-potential public schools serving San Jose's low-income communities find and retain the quality teachers needed to be successful.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $14,000 / 6 schools, 72 Teachers, 1,720 Low Income Students

RotaCare Bay Area, Inc.
Program Title / Location: San Jose clinic / Gilroy, CA
Impact: Supporting of pharmaceuticals for use in direct patient care.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1500 patients

San Francisco Jazz Organization
Program Title / Location: Jazz in the Middle / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing low-income and underserved youth with the opportunity to develop literacy skills while working with world-class jazz musicians and poets.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $8,000 / 1000 students

San Jose Conservation Corps
Program Title / Location: YouthBuild San Jose / San Jose, CA
Impact: Training at-riskyoung people in construction trades
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 20 trainees

San Jose Museum of Art Association
Program Title / Location: Museum and the Schools / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing art education in conjunction with core curriculum.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2,200 students

NPO web siteSan Jose Repertory Theatre []
Program Title / Location: Red Ladder Theatre Company / San Jose, CA
Impact: Offering art performance workshops for at-risk youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1,600 students

Santa Clara Family Health Foundation
Program Title / Location: Healthy Kids / Campbell, CA
Impact: Providing comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for needy children in Santa Clara County.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 14 children

Save San Francisco Bay Association
Program Title / Location: Watershed Education and Volunteer Wetland Restoration Programs / Oakland, CA
Impact: Engaging local youth through hands-on projects to understand the ecology of San Francisco Bay and restore ecosystem and habitat for local wildlife through their volunteer efforts.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 240 students + teachers

School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Franklin-McKinley Health Clinic / San Jose, CA
Impact: Maintaining underserved school children's health.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 266 students

Second Harvest Food Bank Serving Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties
Program Title / Location: Food for Children / Watsonville, CA
Impact: Providing food to low-income families each month.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 44,000 under served children and family members

Sensory Access Foundation
Program Title / Location: Employment Program / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Assisting people who are blind or visually impaired to obtain or retain competitive employment in order to maintain their independence.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 33 adults

Shalom Bayit
Program Title / Location: Crisis Intervention / Oakland, CA
Impact: Expanding crisis intervention services for victims of domestic violence, including individual counseling and case management.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 75 clients and 300 community members

Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA
Program Title / Location: Tenderloin Youth Development Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Opening the doors to opportunity and success in education and life for the youth of the Tenderloin.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 200 youth

Society of Women Engineers, Santa Clara Valley Section
Program Title / Location: Get SET (Science, Engineering and Technology) / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Teaching girls the application of math and science concepts to real world situations and encouraging them to consider math, science, and engineering careers.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 20 girls

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Emergency Services / San Jose, CA
Impact: Meeting emergency needs of low-income families and individuals.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 1000 families

The Better Health Foundation
Program Title / Location: Cancer Support Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing social and emotional support for families with children who have cancer.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 25 families

The Imagine Bus Project
Program Title / Location: Art Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing kids from some of the Bay Area's poorest neighborhoods an innovative mobile after school art education program.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $9,500 / 120 students

The Morgan Center
Program Title / Location: Adult Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing opportunity for autistic adults to be self reliant individuals, and to contribute to the community by learning a vocational skills).
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 33 adults

The Unity Care Group
Program Title / Location: Transitional Housing / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing transitional housing for youth aging out of foster care.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 20 homeless young people

TransAccess
Program Title / Location: School-to-Career Internship / San Jose, CA
Impact: Partnering with school districts, parents and teachers to assist students with severe disabilities to continue their education and pursue a sustainable career of choice.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 325 students

NPO web siteTri-City Homeless Coalition []
Program Title / Location: Service Coordination / Fremont, CA
Impact: Serving disabled homeless families with in-home social services to help them break the cycle of homelessness and remain in housing.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 26 to 50 adults and children

University of California, Santa Cruz
Program Title / Location: COSMOS Internship Program / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Attracting, motivating and retaining 9th-12th grade students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and preparing them for academic and career success in these disciplines.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 16 students total, 4 students additional

NPO web siteWardrobe for Opportunity []
Program Title / Location: Tools to Succeed / Oakland, CA
Impact: Teaching low-income workers career advancement skills.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 40- 50 women

YES Reading
Program Title / Location: Belle Haven One-to-One Tutoring Program / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Improving literacy skills of 1st-8th grade students through one-on-one tutoring.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 20 students

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