The Cisco Foundation awarded Silicon Valley Impact Grants in two annual cycles -- one in spring and one in fall -- in fiscal year 2004.
Fiscal Year 2004, Spring Cycle
Achievekids
Program Title / Location: Vocational Education Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing emotionally and developmentally disabled students with vocational training and job placement.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $16,000 / 85-90 students
AnewAmerica Community Corporation
Program Title / Location: Assets for New Americans: Virtual Business Incubator (Assets-VBI) / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Serving the low-income new American community with comprehensive programs that integrate asset building, business development, and socially responsible community activities.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 250
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 / 18 individuals
Ascent Employment Program
Program Title / Location: Ascent Employment Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Motivating clients with troubled and disadvantaged backgrounds to obtain meaningful employment that will serve our community in many ways -- to give them a hand up and not just a handout.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $8,050 / 500
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County
Program Title / Location: Mentoring Service Expansion / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Expanding mentoring services throughout Santa Cruz County to keep youth in school and out of the juvenile justice system.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 195
Building with Books
Program Title / Location: After School Clubs / Oakland, CA
Impact: Engaging teenagers in afterschool programs.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / approx. 270 teenagers
Cal Corps Public Service Center
Program Title / Location: Bears United in Literacy Development (BUILD) / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Providing quality literacy tutoring and college preparation mentoring to K-8 students in our community, while providing additional support to K-8 public school teachers.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100 students
Camp Kesem Project
Program Title / Location: The Camp Kesem Project / Stanford, CA
Impact: Providing a free, weeklong, sleepover summer camp for children who have a parent who has cancer, is in remission from cancer, or has died from cancer.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 90 children, 45 student volunteers, 100 parents
Career Resources Development Center
Program Title / Location: Excel Hospitality Services Training Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing hospitality service training and employment to 75 laid off or low income San Francisco residents.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 75 adults
Clara-Mateo Alliance, Inc.
Program Title / Location: CMA Food Program / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Providing 5,000 dinners to the homeless in our community.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approximately 150 individuals
Cleo Eulau Center
Program Title / Location: Resiliency Consultation Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Building the skills of teachers to foster resiliency in their high-risk students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $13,000 / Approximately 50-100 students
Community Association for Rehabilitation
Program Title / Location: Employment Services / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Building self-sufficiency through supported employment for adults with developmental disabilities.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 125
Community Resources for Science
Program Title / Location: Community in the Classroom / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Teaching at least 1,500 elementary students exciting hands-on science with role-model scientist volunteers.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1,500 students, 60 teachers, 30 volunteers
Creating Economic Opportunities for Women, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Venture Catalyst / Oakland, CA
Impact: Expanding the development of Venture Catalyst, a unique vocational English as a Second Language entrepreneurship curriculum project.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 51-100
Delta Research Educational Foundation
Program Title / Location: Images Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Mentoring at risk teen-age girls to become socially responsible citizens.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $3,000 / 60
Design Response, Inc
Program Title / Location: Nonprofit facility enhancement / Campbell, CA
Impact: Improving the physical environments of nonprofit agencies and schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 5,000 to 10,000
Diabetes Society of Santa Clara Valley
Program Title / Location: Educational Camps for Santa Clara Valley Children and Teens with Diabetes / San Jose, CA
Impact: Teaching Santa Clara Valley children and teens how to manage and control their diabetes successfully through participating in one of the Diabetes Society Educational Camps.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 100 from Santa Clara County
Dientes Community Dental Clinic
Program Title / Location: Children's Dental Outreach Program / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Providing dental health assessments, preventive education and dental treatment to low-income elementary students to ensure that the children are healthy, confident and ready to learn.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / Approximately 50 children
East Palo Alto Mural Art Project
Program Title / Location: Summer & Fall Teen Mural Programs / Stanford, CA
Impact: Promoting a range of positive developmental outcomes and risk reduction for teens.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 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, thereby bringing stability to their lives and assisting them in becoming self-sufficient.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / approx. 220 people
Emergency Housing Consortium
Program Title / Location: Our House Youth Shelter "Learning Succeeds" / San Jose, CA
Impact: Increasing the educational level of at least 100 homeless and runaway youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 200 homeless/runaway youth
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco
Program Title / Location: ECS Skills Center for Homeless Individuals and Families / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Enabling 1,020 homeless individuals to learn basic education, job, and computer skills.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1,020
Francisco Connection
Program Title / Location: Buddy Program / San Francisco , CA
Impact: Offering school-based mentoring for 45 underprivileged adolescents to ensure greater success in school and in life.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 45
Friends for Youth, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Academic Support Project / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Providing mentors and academic opportunities to 150 at-risk youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 150 at-risk youth/students
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: In-School Scouting Science Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Educating 4,000 low-income diverse students, in grades 2-6, to develop their knowledge and curiosity about science so they can pursue scientific endeavors in the future.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 4,000 students
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
Program Title / Location: Girls Inc. Eureka! Teen Achievement Program / San Leandro, CA
Impact: Preparing low-income girls for college through four years of educational enrichment opportunities in math, science, technology, and sports.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / Approximately 100 teen girls
Golden Gate Community Inc.
Program Title / Location: Employment Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing job experience, training, and mentoring for up to 40 at-risk youth.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 40 youth
Goodwill of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: SCHOOL-TO-CAREER PROGRAM / San Jose, CA
Impact: Empowering developmentally-disabled youth to make successful transitions from school to employment.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 40
Homeless Garden Project
Program Title / Location: Women's Organic Flower Enterprise / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Providing job training for homeless and low-income women.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 4 women
Huckleberry Youth Programs
Program Title / Location: VIP (Violence Is Preventable) Girls Project / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing violence prevention education, leadership development, case management, and referrals, the VIP Girls program is empowering high-risk young women to develop and maintain healthy relationships, as well as building on their talents and skills.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,000 / 100
Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Association
Program Title / Location: Art from the Heart / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Providing bilingual art therapy to children with cancer and their families.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 150
Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service
Program Title / Location: Information Technology Training Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Helping disadvantaged residents develop the skills and acquire certification necessary for career ladder jobs in IT.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $13,000 / 60 people
Jobs for Homeless Consortium
Program Title / Location: FastTrackClass / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing homeless individuals with workforce development training in a computer literacy setting.
Cisco Funding Area: Technology & Innovation in Nonprofits
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,900 / Approx. 300 homeless clients
Juma Ventures
Program Title / Location: Youth Employment, Training & Transition / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing low-income youth with employment opportunities, skills, experiences, and support to facilitate successful transitions from adolescence to adulthood.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 125 Low-Income Youth
Magic Theatre, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Young California Writers Project / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Improving literacy and fostering creativity for 9th grade students in inner city public schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 450 students
Meals On Wheels of San Francisco
Program Title / Location: New Mission District Route / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Creating a new route to serve home-delivered meals to homebound seniors in San Francisco's Mission District.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 15 homebound seniors
Mission Dignity/Dignity of Man Nonprofit Educational Corporation
Program Title / Location: Mission Dignity Youth-led Peer Education and College Resource Center / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Developing young multicultural community leaders who encourage higher education and leadership for all San Francisco youth and especially those most academically at risk.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 500 students/youth
National Engineers Week Foundation
Program Title / Location: San Francisco Future City Competition / San Jose, CA
Impact: Provide engineering education and teacher/student training at underserved middle schools to further interest in engineering and technology careers.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $8,000 / Up to 5000 people
Pacific Autism Center for Education
Program Title / Location: Vocational Training Program / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Providing one-to-one vocational instruction.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 40
Palo Alto Community Child Care
Program Title / Location: Child Development After-School Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing enriched after-school programs for children from low-income families.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 7-8 children + 7-10 parents = 14-18 individuals
Palo Alto Housing Corporation
Program Title / Location: SRO Resident Support Services and Analysis / Palo Alto, , CA
Impact: Analyzing and refining resident support services for SRO residents of Palo Alto Housing Corporation.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / 130 adults, many on disability
Peninsula Family Connections
Program Title / Location: Parent Leadership Project / San Carlos, CA
Impact: Strengthening parent leadership and advocacy skills.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 120
Peninsula Habitat for Humanity
Program Title / Location: AmeriCorps Team Leader Program / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Developing the leadership and training skills of AmeriCorps volunteers who work with thousands of done-in-a-day volunteers to build affordable houses and inspire those same volunteers to expand their community involvement.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $11,000 / 55 family members & 5000 volunteers
Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Artists-in-Schools Demonstration Project / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Improving the overall academic performance and critical thinking skills of youth at risk for academic failure.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 400 students and 16 classroom teachers
Positive Resource Center
Program Title / Location: Employment Services for People with HIV / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing employment services for 35 people with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / approximately 35 clients
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
Program Title / Location: Bridging the Digital Divide - Access to Small Business Technology and Training in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Bringing access to business technology and training, helping disadvantaged entrepreneurs and fostering a vibrant local economy of small businesses in Bayview Hunters Point.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / More than 100 clients
Resources for Community Development
Program Title / Location: Resident Services and Empowerment Program (RSEP) / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Providing supportive services for formerly homeless families and people with disabilities that enable them to retain their housing and become empowered.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / approx. 100 individuals
Rubicon Programs Inc.
Program Title / Location: Fragile Families Working Parents Program / Richmond, CA
Impact: Increasing the economic self-sufficiency of 150 very low income parents through job preparation and training with support services that address the family issues and child support barriers that keep parents apart and families fragmented.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $14,000 / 31 trainees
San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
Program Title / Location: Street Outreach Services (SOS) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing direct mobile medical care and referral services to homeless San Franciscans.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 75 clients would gain access to SOS services.
San Francisco Urban Service Project
Program Title / Location: Service Learning and Community Involvement Teams / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Increasing the academic engagement and community leadership of 4,000 low-income children and youth throughout San Francisco.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,500 / 2,000
Santa Cruz Women's Health Center
Program Title / Location: Chronic Care Expansion Project / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Improving medical care for chronically ill patients between the ages of 40-65.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 750-1000 patients
Services for Brain Injury
Program Title / Location: After School Children's Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing afterschool training and support wherin children work together toward common outcomes and parents have the opportunity to network, resource, and receive support.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approx. 100
Shelter Network of San Mateo County
Program Title / Location: Haven Family House Children's Program / Burlingame, CA
Impact: Providing educational support and meeting basic human needs for over 100 homeless children a year, thus enabling them to overcome the crisis of homelessness to achieve long-term success.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / approx. 120 children
Silicon Valley Children's Fund
Program Title / Location: Kids First. Art Education / San Jose, CA
Impact: Nurturing children's imaginations and artistic skills to help them lead more productive, engaged, and creative lives in the community.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2500
Silicon Valley Habitat for Humanity
Program Title / Location: Murphy Street Project / San Jose, CA
Impact: Making home ownership dreams come true, one family at a time.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / Approx. 12 adults 24 children
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Program Title / Location: Riley Center Children's Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing emergency shelter and transitional housing for battered women and their children to stop the intergenerational cycle of domestic abuse.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 300 families
Stanford Jazz Workshop
Program Title / Location: Jazz Camp Outreach / Stanford, CA
Impact: Providing access to the Stanford Jazz Workshop's Summer Jazz Program for 15 young musicians in San Jose.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 15 students
Support Network For Battered Women
Program Title / Location: STAR (Students Talking About Relationships) / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Educating more than 3,000 students about the warning signs of dating violence and the resources available to them, thereby providing them with the tools for self-sufficiency and healthy, violence-free relationships.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approx. 580
Teach For America - Bay Area
Program Title / Location: Recruit, Train and Support Two San Jose Corps Members / Emeryville, CA
Impact: Providing for the recruitment, training, professional development, and support of two Teach For America corps members placed in San Jose schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / Approximately 255 San Jose 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: $12,500 / Approximately 110-120 children and youth.
Upwardly Global
Program Title / Location: Job Seeker Services / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing tools and resources to underemployed immigrant and refugee professionals in order for them to rebuild their career in the U.S.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 20
Via Rehabilitation Services, Inc.
Program Title / Location: First Step Early Intervention Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing early intervention services to young children with autism to give them the best possible chance to succeed in school and in life.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,600 / 8 per year
YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula, East Palo Alto YMCA
Program Title / Location: East Palo Alto YMCA Youth & Government / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Building strong communities through youth engagement in citizenship and hands-on learning projects.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 15
Youth and Family Enrichment Services
Program Title / Location: Daybreak Shelter for Homeless Youth / San Carlos, CA
Impact: Providing independent living skills and training programs for homeless youth ages 16-19.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 400 youth
Youth Community Service
Program Title / Location: Community Service and Leadership Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Developing the ethics of service and civic responsibility in middle and high school youth on the Mid-Peninsula.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 130 students
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Fiscal Year 2004, Fall Cycle
AIDS Community Network
Program Title / Location: HIV/AIDS Day Center Services / Richmond, CA
Impact: Providing low-income residents of Contra Costa County living with HIV/AIDS a broad array of vital support services to enrich their health and lives, available in a home-like environment.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 300
American Red Cross Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Program Title / Location: Homeless Assistance and Prevention Program (HAPP) / San Jose, CA
Impact: Helping to prevent families from becoming homeless.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approx. 36 families
Asian Americans for Community Involvement's Domestic Violence Program
Program Title / Location: Vietnamese Domestic Violence Advocate / San Jose, CA
Impact: Serving underserved battered women and their children.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $13,350 / approx. 40
Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
Program Title / Location: Fostering best-practice knowledge communities to narrow the achievement gap in San Jose schools. / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Improving the academic achievement of students.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $20,000 / Approx. 500-700 students; approx. 24,000 students
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco & the Peninsula
Program Title / Location: Up2Us After School Mentoring Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing mentoring relationships to at-risk youth to keep them in school and ensure a positive future.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $14,500 / 160
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: School-Based Mentoring / San Jose, CA
Impact: Mentoring within schools to cultivate positive life choices and academic achievement.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approximately 20 students, their families and vols
Bill Wilson Center
Program Title / Location: Independent Living Skills Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Preventing youth from becoming homeless after they leave foster care by providing local youth with Independent Living Skills.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 250
The Bread Project
Program Title / Location: The Bread Project / Oakland, CA
Impact: Training disadvantaged people to become bakers.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 7 students in Berkeley campus
Bright Horizons Foundation for Children
Program Title / Location: San Jose Bright Spaces / San Jose, CA
Impact: Creating 3 Bright Spaces at InnVision will provide enriched early learning environments necessary for healthy development.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / Approx 2,000 children and their parents
The Center For AIDS Services
Program Title / Location: Meals Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Feeding clients who are dying and most in need.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $7,600 / approximately 400 clients
Community Breast Health Project
Program Title / Location: The Gabriella Patser Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Ensuring underserved women have access to high-quality breast cancer diagnostic services, working towards early detection, treatment, and survival.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / Approximately 21 underserved women would be served
Community Housing Partnership
Program Title / Location: Employment Training Programs / 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: $15,000 / 105
Community Solutions for Children, Families & Individuals
Program Title / Location: La Isla Pacifica Shelter for Battered Women & Children / Morgan Hill, CA
Impact: Sheltering and supporting battered women and their children so their lives can be free from violence.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $20,000 / approx. 150 battered women and children
Community Ventures, Inc.
Program Title / Location: ChildCare Ventures Technical Assistance Program / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Maintaining and increasing the region's child care capacity and quality by providing business skill training and pre-development technical assistance to child care developers and providers.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $20,000 / 9 child care developers; 20 providers
Concern for the Poor
Program Title / Location: Aftercare for Homeless Families with Children / San Jose, CA
Impact: Empowering formerly homeless families to retain housing.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100 homeless families
East Bay Counseling & Referral Agency for the Deaf, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Computer Training Program / San Leandro, CA
Impact: Increasing the opportunities for employment of deaf people.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / Approximately 100
Edgewood Center for Children and Families
Program Title / Location: Kinship Youth Education Project / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Linking kinship children to the tutoring and educational support they need to achieve their academic potential.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 87 kinship youth and 100 caregivers
El Camino Hospital Foundation
Program Title / Location: El Camino Hospital 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: $12,500 / 1296 at-risk, uninsured, adults
Eldergivers
Program Title / Location: Art With Elders / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Lessening the isolation of the elderly through high quality art programs.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,500 / 350 Elder Artists
EMQ Children & Family Services
Program Title / Location: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CRISIS PROGRAM (CACP) / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing 24/7 crisis intervention and assessment to 600 children and adolescents who are severely depressed, suicidal, in acute psychological crisis, or who are acting out dangerous behaviors toward themselves or others.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 150
Family & Children Services
Program Title / Location: FAST (Families and Schools Together) / San Jose, CA
Impact: Increasing after-school family support for at risk children.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / approximately 100
Family Service Agency of San Mateo County
Program Title / Location: Senior Connections / San Mateo, CA
Impact: Training senior job hunters in basic computer skills and office techniques to help them become job-ready.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100
The Health Trust
Program Title / Location: Meals On Wheels / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing daily nutritious meals, social contact and case management services to homebound adults in the community.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 10 individuals
InnVision, The Way Home
Program Title / Location: Family Place / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing childcare, education, and case management support services to families at or below the poverty level.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / approximately 220 women and children
Japanese Community Youth Council
Program Title / Location: Upward Bound / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing a summer residential experience on a college campus.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 50
Jewish Family and Children's Services
Program Title / Location: Peninsula On the Mark Tutor/Mentor Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Matching at-risk youth aged 8 to 18 with adult and older teen tutor/mentors for weekly one-to-one meetings providing educational enrichment and a mature role model.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 20
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: $14,500 / 440
LIFE ElderCare
Program Title / Location: The Meals for Non-Seniors Project / Fremont, CA
Impact: Providing 3,750 home delivered meals to homebound disabled persons under age 60.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $11,850 / approx 27 homebound clients
Life Lab Science Program
Program Title / Location: Science Education in the Life Lab Garden Classroom / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Life Lab will provide science educational programs in the Life Lab Garden Classroom.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 4,500 students
Little Jim Club
Program Title / Location: Autism Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Developing cognitive and language skills in moderately to several impaired autistic children and teaching parents and teachers specific skills to communicate with autistic children.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / potentially 20-30 individuals
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Program Title / Location: Hot Meal and Food Basket 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: $5,000 / 500 hungry people
Low Income Investment Fund
Program Title / Location: Affordable Housing / Oakland, CA
Impact: Helping individuals and families escape the cycle of poverty by providing affordable housing, child care and educational programs for low-income communities.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $12,000 / approx. 2,200 people
The Morgan Center
Program Title / Location: Adult Program / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing 33 adults the opportunity to be self-reliant individuals, to learn independent living skills, to contribute to the community by learning a vocation, and maximize their individual potential.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 33
New Horizons School
Program Title / Location: 2003-2004 Transitional Program for Homeless Children / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Preparing homeless children to break the cycle and build hope for a brighter future.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $20,000 / Approx 50-100 homeless children and family members
Pacifica School Volunteers
Program Title / Location: Helping Children Succeed in School / Pacifica, CA
Impact: Recruiting, training and placing volunteers in classrooms to help boost the academic performance of students performing below grade level.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 1070
Partners In School Innovation
Program Title / Location: Oak Grove School District Partnership / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Supporting the Oak Grove School District to closing the gap in achievement.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 200 students and teachers
Public Allies, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Public Allies Silicon Valley / San Jose, CA
Impact: Developing the Leadership Skills of young adults and community residents to sustain services that impact their lives and the lives of those around them.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / approximately 5000 individuals
Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley
Program Title / Location: Rebuilding Days 2004 / San Jose, CA
Impact: Repairing and rehabilitating the Women and Children's Center.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 50+
Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators
Program Title / Location: Expansion of RISE School Network in San Jose's Low-Income Communities / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Helping 10 high potential public schools serving San Jose's low income communities to find and support the quality teachers they need to reach their potential.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $13,300 / 10 schools, 80 Teachers, 1,680 Low Income Students
Richmond District Neighborhood Center
Program Title / Location: Richmond Village Beacon CTC TEA (Technology, Education and Arts) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Empowering 186 underserved youth and adults with free, after school and project-based learning at RVB-CTC's Media Arts Academy, open computer lab and evening adult computer classes.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 146
The Role Model Program
Program Title / Location: The Community Classroom Visit Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing mentors and skills development to allow underserved youth to achieve academically and socially and set college as a life goal.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1500
Sacred Heart Community Service
Program Title / Location: Housing Assistance Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing rent assistance to prevent homelessness.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 80-96
San Francisco Girls Chorus
Program Title / Location: SFGC Music Outreach Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Enriching lives through music.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 8,500
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Program Title / Location: Red Ladder Theatre Company / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing life-enhancing Red Ladder improvisational workshops to approximately 1,500 at-risk youth, including eight sessions with 10-15 students from the Morgan Center for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,800 / 1,500, including 10- 15 Morgan Center students
San Jose RotaCare Clinic
Program Title / Location: San Jose RotaCare Clinic / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing medical supplies, equipment and diagnostic testing.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $20,000 / 1500 individuals
School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Franklin McKinley School District Health Clinic / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing a full range of primary health care and prevention services to children in the Franklin McKinley School District.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $20,000 / approximately 350 students
Sensory Access Foundation
Program Title / Location: Employment Preparation, Job Development, and Placement (EPJDP) program. / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Assisting people who are blind or visually impaired in obtaining or retain competitive employment and maintain their independence.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / Approximately 33 individuals
Social Advocates for Youth
Program Title / Location: Education Mentor Program / Milpitas, CA
Impact: Helping 20 risk youth ages 14-21 stay in school or return to school.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 30 disadvantaged youth
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Emergency Services 2004 / San Jose, CA
Impact: Meeting emergency needs of low-income families and individuals.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1,000
Tapestry Arts San Jose, Inc.
Program Title / Location: World Moves / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing elementary school children with multicultural arts education.
Cisco Funding Area: Responsible Citizenship
Grant Amount / Number Served: $10,000 / 150 students
TransAccess
Program Title / Location: TransAccess School-to-Career Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Teaching and encouraging 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: $20,000 / 158
Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative
Program Title / Location: Treasure Island Food Pantry / Treasure Island, CA
Impact: Feeding the city's poor.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $8,000 / 200
Tri-City Homeless Coalition
Program Title / Location: Sunrise Village Case Management Program / Fremont, CA
Impact: Providing case management and case management supervision to adults in a permanent homeless shelter, Sunrise Village.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $18,000 / 100%
Triton Museum of Art
Program Title / Location: ArtReach Hospital Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing art education to critically ill and long-term hospitalized children.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $11,700 / 700
W.E.R.C.
Program Title / Location: Learn Something Wild! / Morgan Hill, CA
Impact: Providing educational outreach programs to students in underserved schools.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $14,350 / 3,815 students
Wardrobe for Opportunity
Program Title / Location: A Level Playing Field for Low-Income Job-Seekers / Walnut Creek, CA
Impact: Empowering 59 low-income job-seekers to find and keep gainful employment.
Cisco Funding Area: Basic Human Needs
Grant Amount / Number Served: $5,000 / 59 clients
YES Reading
Program Title / Location: YES Reading Tutoring Program / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Providing tutoring support to ensure academic gains for an underserved school district.
Cisco Funding Area: Access To Education
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / Between 15 and 25 students will be served.
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