As of 2006, the Cisco Systems Foundation awards Silicon Valley Impact Grants once per fiscal year. In FY2006, we awarded 89 San Jose Impact Grants, each in the amount of $15,000.
A Schmahl Science Workshop
Program Title / Location: Science Education / San Jose, CA
Impact: Expanding science education for 1600 underserved students
Number Served: 1600 students and 80 teachers
Achievekids
Program Title / Location: Vocational Education Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Teaching self sufficiency vocational skills to disabled young adults.
Number Served: 90 students
After-School All-Stars of Greater San Jose
Program Title / Location: Miracles Education Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Expanding technology instruction underserved students and families.
Number Served: 120 students and 40 adults
Aim High
Program Title / Location: Aim High / East Palo Alto / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Free academic summer school for 60 low-income middle school youth in East Palo Alto.
Number Served: 60
Alum Rock Counseling Center, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Mobile Crisis Response and Counseling (MCRC) Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Offers self-sufficiency through mental health services to low income adults.
Number Served: 45 students
Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition
Program Title / Location: Medical assistance / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Donated surgery to uninsured in the local community through a volunteer network of medical professionals, hospitals, and community clinics.
Number Served: 12 uninsured people needing surgery
AXIS Dance Company
Program Title / Location: Dance Access/KIDS! / Oakland, CA
Impact: Arts education dance program for children with disabilities.
Number Served: 15,000
Bay Area Legal Aid
Program Title / Location: Community Health Advocacy Project / Oakland, CA
Impact: Direct health care legal assistance to low-income San Francisco and Alameda County individuals and families.
Number Served: Minimum 500 individuals
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County
Program Title / Location: Mentoring Program / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Mentoring services throughout Santa Cruz County to keep youth in school and out of the criminal justice system.
Number Served: Approximately 205 children.
Bill Wilson Center
Program Title / Location: YouthWorks- Employment Education Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Training underserved young adults employment skills necessary to secure and retain a job, the first step to self-sufficiency.
Number Served: 100 (youth ages 18-23)
Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center
Program Title / Location: Internet-based HIV/STD prevention program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Reducing rates of HIV/STD disease through Internet-based HIV prevention outreach.
Number Served: 300
California Tomorrow
Program Title / Location: Bridging Multiple Worlds / Oakland, CA
Impact: Educational arts program.
Number Served: 354
Caminos/Pathways Learning Center
Program Title / Location: Caminos Computer Education Services / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing technology education and services.
Number Served: 40 students
Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation
Program Title / Location: Galaxy Explorers / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing 100 Oakland and East Bay teens with enrichment, service learning, and academic/career exploration in science and technology.
Number Served: approx. 500 individuals
Challenge Learning Center
Program Title / Location: Leading to Empowerment and Prevention (LEAP) / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Developing the leadership skills of diverse middle school students so they can be healthy, caring, successful and responsible members of their school community.
Number Served: 82
Child Advocates of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
Program Title / Location: Education Advocacy for Foster Youth in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties / Milpitas, CA
Impact: Helping foster youth attain positive outcomes in their education by providing them with Education Advocates.
Number Served: 100 students
City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley
Program Title / Location: School Partnership Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Improving the academic performance and enhancing the leadership skills of students in San Jose's most under-resourced schools.
Number Served: 400
Community Association for Rehabilitation
Program Title / Location: Employment Services/Independent Living Skills / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing job coaching and placement for over 125 developmentally disabled adults so they can achieve financial self-sufficiency.
Number Served: 135-150 adults
Community Breast Health Project
Program Title / Location: The Gabriella Patser Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Ensuring that underserved women have access to high quality breast cancer diagnostic services.
Number Served: 67.5 women/men could have diagnostic testing
Community Bridges
Program Title / Location: LMCR Chilcare- Readiness Project / Aptos, CA
Impact: Creating a supportive learning family for the under served children of Watsonville.
Number Served: 50
Community Gatepath
Program Title / Location: PigMillion Possibilities / Burlingame, CA
Impact: Teaching Bay Area youth about disabilities and responsible citizenship.
Number Served: 210 students
Community Health Awareness Council
Program Title / Location: Village Program / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Protecting elementary school students from high-risk behaviors while building the personal assets that support their success in school.
Number Served: 350
Community Housing Partnership
Program Title / Location: Employment and Training Programs / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing vocational and on-the-job training to assist formerly homeless persons re-enter the workforce.
Number Served: 150
Community Partners for Youth, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Step-Up for Brighter Futures / San Jose, CA
Impact: Expanding community involvement through leveraging partnerships providing low-income, high risk, and under-performing youth with skills and support services.
Number Served: 70 students, their parents, mentors and teachers
Community Services Agency
Program Title / Location: Senior Services / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Incorporating technology into case management programs.
Number Served: approx. 200+
Community Solutions for Children, Families & Individuals
Program Title / Location: El Toro Youth Centers / Morgan Hill, CA
Impact: Improving the academic success and higher educational goals of 180 low-income youth.
Number Served: approximately 240
Diabetes Society of Santa Clara Valley
Program Title / Location: 2006 Diabetes Educational Camps / San Jose, CA
Impact: Assisting Santa Clara Valley children and teens to learn how to effectively self-manage their diabetes.
Number Served: 76 from Santa Clara County
Eastfield Ming Quong, Inc.
Program Title / Location: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CRISIS PROGRAM (CACP) / Campbell, CA
Impact: Providing 24/7 crisis intervention and assessment to children and adolescents who are severely depressed, suicidal, in acute psychological crisis, or who are acting out dangerous behaviors toward themselves or others.
Number Served: 75 children and family members
El Camino Hospital Foundation
Program Title / Location: Adult Immunization Program / 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.
Number Served: 1,745
Episcopal Community Services
Program Title / Location: ECS Skills Center / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing homeless individuals with access to skills-building computer labs, adult education, job counseling, vocational training and placement.
Number Served: 400
Exploratorium
Program Title / Location: Teacher Institute - Classic Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing life-long learning and professional development for middle and high school science and mathematics teachers.
Number Served: 185 teachers reaching 27,750 students
Film Arts Foundation
Program Title / Location: TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Teaching students digital technology and critical media literacy skills.
Number Served: 50
Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area
Program Title / Location: Launch into Summer / Oakland, CA
Impact: Exploring future career options, in a non-competitive, girl-only aviation/robotics program at NASA Ames.
Number Served: 100
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: In-School Science / San Jose, CA
Impact: Educating low-income students, in grades 2-6, to develop science skills and knowledge for scientific endeavors in the future.
Number Served: 3,200
Hospice of the Valley
Program Title / Location: Children's Bereavement Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing individual and group counseling support to 180 grieving children.
Number Served: 66 Grieving Children
Industry Initiatives for Science & Math Education
Program Title / Location: IISME Fellowships / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Increasing the educational impact of industry- and research-based IISME Summer Fellowships.
Number Served: 500+ teachers and 62,000 students
InnVision the Way Home
Program Title / Location: Georgia Travis Center Health Care for the Homeless / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing free direct medical care and health education to homeless women and children.
Number Served: 600
Institute on Aging
Program Title / Location: Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief Related Services / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Combating elder depression and suicide in the Bay Area through a 24-hour toll-free hotline and services designed to meet the specific needs of at-risk older adults.
Number Served: 10,000+ seniors
Jamestown Community Center
Program Title / Location: Educational Enrichment and Academic Tutoring Programs / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing youth in underprivileged neighborhoods with access to educational enrichment and academic support programs.
Number Served: Aprox. 7 youth (four days per week for a year)
KQED, Inc.
Program Title / Location: SPARK in Education (SPARKed) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing resources, materials, professional development, and visiting artists to schools in conjunction with core curriculum and enhanced arts education programs.
Number Served: 180 educators, youth, and communtiy members
Larkin Street Youth Services
Program Title / Location: HIRE UP: Workforce Development for Homeless Youth / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Training homeless youth for the workforce.
Number Served: 50
Learning & Loving Education Center
Program Title / Location: Health Education / Morgan Hill, CA
Impact: Providing health education, resources and outreach to 150 local immigrant families who have been limited by poverty, illiteracy, and a lack of access to health services.
Number Served: 120
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Program Title / Location: Cultures of Mexico in California / San Pablo, CA
Impact: Increasing students' interest and engagement in learning and promoting cross-cultural understanding.
Number Served: 5,000 students
Low-Income Families' Empowerment through Education
Program Title / Location: Peer Empowerment and Education Retention (PEER) Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Increasing access to adult education and vocational training programs for welfare and other low-income parents.
Number Served: 2,000
Maranatha Outreach Center
Program Title / Location: BOOK Academy and Computer Advancement Center / San Jose, CA
Impact: Improving literacy in reading and technology.
Number Served: approx 100 individuals
Marine Science Institute
Program Title / Location: Discovering our Bay / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Providing hands-on science education to 1,575 students.
Number Served: 1,575 students
MK Level Playing Field Institute
Program Title / Location: Summer Math & Science Honors Academy (SMASH) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Increasing the number of underrepresented minorities seeking college degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields.
Number Served: 70
Montalvo Arts Center
Program Title / Location: Education and Outreach: Master Class Series / Saratoga, CA
Impact: Providing 120 underserved students with school-based arts education experiences through the Master Class Series.
Number Served: 120 students
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence
Program Title / Location: Next Door's Children & Youth Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Cultivating the educational, developmental and emotional assets of child and youth victims of domestic violence, Next Door gives at- risk children and teens a chance to become productive and healthy members of society.
Number Served: 300
O'Neill Sea Odyssey
Program Title / Location: San Jose Oceanography Program / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Providing an environmental, hands-on program for students.
Number Served: 300
Omega Boys Club
Program Title / Location: Omega Leadership Academy / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Developing academic and life skills of at-risk youth, including preparing for, entering and graduating from college.
Number Served: 80
Opera San Jose
Program Title / Location: Let's make An Opera! Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Increasing over 200 K-12 students' interpersonal skills, creativity and ability to work in a teaming environment while enhancing their appreciation for opera.
Number Served: Approx 200 students
Pacific Autism Center for Education
Program Title / Location: Vocational Training Program / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Providing one-to-one vocational instruction to children with autism.
Number Served: 26-50
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Program Title / Location: 2006-2007 Cultural Kaleidoscope Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Using the visual arts to build bridges between communities.
Number Served: approx. 1,500 individuals
Parents Helping Parents Inc.
Program Title / Location: PHP"s iTECH Assistive Technology Center / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing underserved children having disabilities with access to educational opportunities through assistive technology designed to augment their functionality and remove barriers to success caused by their special needs.
Number Served: approximately 150 families, 200 educators
Partners in School Innovation
Program Title / Location: Continuous School Improvement System / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Accelerating learning for students of color in San Jose Unified School District's low-income, low-performing elementary schools.
Number Served: over 3,900 students
Project High Expectations Learning Program
Program Title / Location: Project HE.L.P. Math Center - Bishop School / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Project H.E.L.P. Math Center- Eliminating the "Achievement Gap" in mathematics for all students.
Number Served: Approximately 75 students.
Raphael House of San Francisco, Inc.
Program Title / Location: After-School Program of Raphael House of San Francisco, Inc. / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing children academic support as they emerge from homelessness.
Number Served: approx. 30 children
Recording For The Blind & Dyslexic
Program Title / Location: Learning Through Listening / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Expanding digital audio textbook program into underserved schools and communities in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
Number Served: Approx. 80 students, 100 parents and 60 educators
Refugee Transitions
Program Title / Location: Newcomers Technology Empowerment Project / Oakland, CA
Impact: Helping low-income refugees and immigrants develop the language and computer skills needed to access employment opportunities and succeed in a competitive job market.
Number Served: 20
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
Program Title / Location: Bridging the Entrepreneur Digital Divide / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Creating financial self-sufficiency by providing access to technology for sustainable small business development.
Number Served: 75
Resource Area For Teachers
Program Title / Location: Professional Development for Teachers / San Jose, CA
Impact: Developing teacher's skills to provide hands-on teaching.
Number Served: 8,000 educators
Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators
Program Title / Location: Silicon Valley Partnership Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Supporting eight underserved schools and 100 teachers who will positively impact 2,150 low income and minority students in the Silicon Valley.
Number Served: 8 schools, 100 teachers
San Francisco Jazz Organization
Program Title / Location: Jazz in the Middle / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Building students' literacy skills while introducing them to the American born art form of jazz.
Number Served: 1000
San Jose ACORN
Program Title / Location: Healthcare Access / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing access to affordable health care for underserved communities.
Number Served: approx. 500
San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild
Program Title / Location: San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild Arts Education Programs / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing grassroots arts education programs in the neighborhoods of East San Jose and throughout the Silicon Valley.
Number Served: Approx 800 students
San Jose Museum of Art Association
Program Title / Location: Multi-Part Arts' Voices in Visual Arts Literacy Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Promoting literacy through the Visual Arts.
Number Served: approx. 200-300 students
Santa Clara Family Health Foundation
Program Title / Location: Healthy Kids / Campbell, CA
Impact: Providing one year of affordable health insurance to 17 low-income children.
Number Served: 17
Santa Cruz Women's Health Center
Program Title / Location: Improving Health Access for Children in Low-Income Families / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Expanding access to health care for children in low-income families through health insurance enrollment and providing a medical home.
Number Served: 205 children
School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Franklin-McKinley Neighborhood Health Clinic / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing primary medical care to low-income children in San Jose.
Number Served: 200
Sensory Access Foundation
Program Title / Location: SAF Employment Services Program (Community Outreach) / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Providing employment services to 225 individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
Number Served: 225
Street Tech
Program Title / Location: Get Employed Today in IT (GET IT) / San Pablo, CA
Impact: Training underserved men and women for well paying careers in information technology.
Number Served: 100
Sunset District Community Development
Program Title / Location: Literacy Enrichment and Campus Support / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing educational services for at-risk youth.
Number Served: up to 50 students
Teach For America - Bay Area
Program Title / Location: Recruitment, Training and Support of San Jose Teachers / Emeryville, CA
Impact: Providing resources for recruitment, selection, training, support and professional development of approximately 53 Teach For America corps members working in San Jose's most underserved schools.
Number Served: Approximately 4500 students
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Program Title / Location: Case Management for the Homeless and Marginally Housed Living with HIV/AIDS / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Linking the Tenderloin's dual and triple diagnosed homeless and marginally housed living with HIV/AIDS to health care and social services.
Number Served: 711 HIV positive individuals
The Imagine Bus Project
Program Title / Location: Art Bus Literacy Enrichment Project / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Incorporating art education into literacy programs for at-risk, low-income youth.
Number Served: 500
The Morgan Center
Program Title / Location: The Morgan Center Adult Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing 31 adults the opportunity to be self reliant individuals, to learn independent skills, to contribute to the community by learning a vocation, and maximize their individual potential, whatever that may be.
Number Served: 100%
The Peninsula Bridge Program
Program Title / Location: Peninsula Bridge Summer Program / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Preparing under served middle school students for high school, college and beyond.
Number Served: 225 students
The Role Model Program
Program Title / Location: The Community Classroom Visit Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Preparing underserved and minority youth for post-secondary education.
Number Served: 1500
TheatreWorks
Program Title / Location: TheatreWorks for Schools / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing arts-in-education programs to over 12,000 local students.
Number Served: 500
TransAccess
Program Title / Location: School-to-Career Program for Students with Disabilities / San Jose, CA
Impact: Working in partnership with high school districts, parents and teachers to teach and encourage over 900 students with severe disabilities to continue their education and pursue a sustainable career of choice.
Number Served: 411
Triton Museum of Art
Program Title / Location: ArtReach Program at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing art education to critically ill and long-term hospitalized children.
Number Served: 700
W.E.R.C.
Program Title / Location: Learn Something Wild! / Morgan Hill, CA
Impact: Presenting educational outreach programs to area children and their educators.
Number Served: 3,815 students and teachers
Women's Initiative for Self Employment
Program Title / Location: Technology Integration for Microenterprise Development / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Expanding technology access and economic opportunity for low-income women entrepreneurs through the integration of ICT into micro enterprise development training and the provision of online educational resources and business support services.
Number Served: Approximately 200
YES Reading
Program Title / Location: One-to-One Tutoring & Literacy Support Program / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Providing underserved students with high-quality literacy support in order to level the academic playing field for all children.
Number Served: 75 students
YMCA of San Francisco
Program Title / Location: Tenderloin Youth Development Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Developing computer skills in 300 at-risk youth.
Number Served: 300 youth
Youth and Family Enrichment Services
Program Title / Location: OnYourMind.net Web site and Chat Room Project / San Carlos, CA
Impact: Providing health resources, support, and information to San Mateo County youth in an innovative web-based format.
Number Served: approx 3,658 youth
YWCA of Silicon Valley
Program Title / Location: New Options - Healthy Lifestyles for Youth / San Jose, CA
Impact: Empowering low-income Latino youth to develop healthy lifestyle and food choices.
Number Served: 25
Z Space Studio
Program Title / Location: Youth Arts / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Reaching Bay Area students with innovative arts education programming.
Number Served: approx. 2000 students
