The Cisco Foundation is proud to announce our Silicon Valley Impact Grant recipients for FY2007.
K-12 Enrichment Programs
A Schmahl Science Workshop
Program Title / Location: Expanding Science Education for Underserved Children / San Jose, CA
Impact: Expanding science education to 2000 underserved students.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2000
Aim High
Program Title / Location: Aim High in East Palo Alto / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing free academic summer school for 90 low-income middle school youth in East Palo Alto.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 90
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County
Program Title / Location: Tutoring and Mentoring Service Expansion / Santa Cruz, CA
Impact: Expanding tutoring and mentoring services to serve 270 at-risk youth in Santa Cruz County.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 270
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
Program Title / Location: San Jose School-based Mentoring Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing 1:1 mentors to 80 at-risk children who attend Lynnhaven Elementary and Monroe Middle schools in San Jose.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 20
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula
Program Title / Location: L.E.A.R.N (Literacy, Engagement, and Achievement Right Now) Initiative / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Providing a multifaceted academic program to over 3,000 low income youth to improve their academic and life skills.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 800
Bring Me a Book Foundation
Program Title / Location: San Jose's First Teachers / Mountain View, CA
Impact: Developing parents and teachers to be skillful, confident, and successful "first teachers" of San Jose kindergarteners.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 600
California Academy of Sciences
Program Title / Location: Teacher Services Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing 500+ K-12 teachers with training that integrates state standards-based science content and process, classroom materials, and access to the Academy's unique resources.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 209
California Dictionary Project
Program Title / Location: 2007-2008 Dictionary Day in Santa Clara County / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Building literacy by giving 10,000 dictionaries to third-grade public school students in Santa Clara County.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 10000
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.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 400
Community Bridges
Program Title / Location: The Readiness Project / Aptos, CA
Impact: Enriching the academic and social experiences of low-income students in Watsonville who enter Kindergarten without pre-school preparation.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100
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 needed for learning and practicing making choices that will lead to achieve their potential.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 240
Community Resources for Science
Program Title / Location: Community in the Classroom / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Providing direct science curriculum and role model support for elementary public school classrooms in Alameda County.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 3500
Family Supportive Housing, Inc.
Program Title / Location: San Jose Family Shelter Children's Education Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Empowering 150 homeless school children to succeed in school.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 150
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
Program Title / Location: Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students (LiMPETS) program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Inspiring youth to become ocean stewards and engaging them in marine sciences.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 157
Francisco Connection
Program Title / Location: Student Success Program / San Francisco , CA
Impact: Mentoring and guiding at-risk youth.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 150
Future Families, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Education & Life Skills Training for Foster Care Youth / San Jose, CA
Impact: Improving education and life skills for at-risk foster care youth.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 10
Girl Scout Council Inc. Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: In-School Science / San Jose, CA
Impact: Developing science skills, knowledge and teamwork, while sparking interest and curiosity about science in diverse, low-income youth, ages 7-12, so they can pursue science and technology options in the future.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 3000
Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area
Program Title / Location: Launch into Technology: Girl Scouts Aeronautics & Robotics Institute / Oakland, CA
Impact: Enabling underrepresented girls to explore future career options in a noncompetitive, girl-only residential aeronautics/robotics institute at NASA Ames during summer 2007.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100
Industry Initiatives for Science & Math Education
Program Title / Location: Retaining and Revitalizing Silicon Valley Teachers Via Science Research Experiences / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Providing financial incentive to 15 science teachers to develop and implement high-quality, hands-on, standards-based lessons, based on their IISME summer research fellowships at Bay Area universities and research labs.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 15
Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, Inc.
Program Title / Location: JA Elementary School Economic Education and Career Education Programs / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Teaching the business of life to 660 elementary school students through Junior Achievement's volunteer led business, economic education and workforce readiness programs.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 660
Junior Achievement of the Bay Area, Inc.
Program Title / Location: East Bay Youth Empowerment Project / Walnut Creek, CA
Impact: Educating and inspiring 16,000 East Bay Youth to succeed in a global economy.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 652
JUST READ: Teaching High School Students to Read
Program Title / Location: Grassroots volunteer tutoring program in reading and writing for high school students / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Delivering tutoring services in reading and writing to about 80 underperforming teenagers from impoverished families, mostly immigrants.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 70
KIDPOWER*TEENPOWER*FULLPOWER International
Program Title / Location: Literacy and Health Curriculum Enrichment Program-- Success-based Positive Peer Interaction, Self-Advocacy and Emotional and Physical Safety Skill Building for Underserved K-12 Children and Teachers in Silicon Valley / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: Training 3,600 children to increase literacy and emotional and physical safety skills; educating 360 families to reinforce these skills; and coaching 180 teachers in how to teach these skills on their own and incorporate them into their curriculum.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 345
Mission Dignity/Community Initiative Funds of the San Francisco Foundation
Program Title / Location: Mission Dignity's High School Educational Empowerment and Success Outeach Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Supporting teachers and students with critical personalized resources to ensure high school success and the pursuit of higher education.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 300
MK Level Playing Field Institute
Program Title / Location: Summer Math & Science Honors Academy / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Increasing the number of talented underrepresented students of color seeking college degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 86
National Engineers Week Foundation
Program Title / Location: Outreach Coordination and Teacher Training / San Jose, CA
Impact: Bringing the proven Engineers week program to underprivilaged and economically challenged schools in San Jose and surrounding areas.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 250
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Program Title / Location: San Jose Schools Entrepreneurship Initiative-Year 3 / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Building sustainable partnerships with San Jose public schools to provide low-income, at-risk youth with entrepreneurship education focusing on math, reading, writing, critical thinking, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 120
New Leaders, Inc.
Program Title / Location: New Leaders, Bay Area Post-Resident/New Principal Support / Oakland, CA
Impact: Coaching and supporting New Leaders Post-Residents/new principals who are committed to driving academic achievement and closing the achievement gap in Bay Area public schools.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 24
Omega Boys Club
Program Title / Location: Omega Leadership Academy / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Developing academic, life and leadership skills of at-risk youth, including preparing for, entering and graduating from college.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 50
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 and self esteem of students performing below grade level.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1200
Partners in School Innovation
Program Title / Location: Continuous School Improvement System / San Francisco, CA
Impact: To acclerate learning for economically disadvantaged Latino and African American students attending low-income and low-performing schools in San Jose.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2100
Project High Expectations Learning Program
Program Title / Location: Project HE.L.P. "School-Based" Math Center - Bishop School - Expansion of Services / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Supporting the on-going development and expansion of services of the Bishop Math Center.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 50
Ravenswood Cities In Schools, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Ravenswood CIS program at SF 49ers Academy School / East Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Bringing services to the students most vulnerable to dropping out of school.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 120
Recording For The Blind & Dyslexic
Program Title / Location: Learning Through Listening / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Expanding digital audio textbook program into special needs communities in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, and providing continuing education to parents and professionals.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 5500
Resource Area For Teachers
Program Title / Location: Professional Development for Teachers / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing teachers with materials and skills in hands-on teaching techniques.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 177
San Francisco Center for the Book
Program Title / Location: SFCB's ABC Inititative:-Bookmaking Institute for K-5 Teachers / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Training teachers in bookmaking and follow up use of SFCB website as an innovative path to literacy & artistic expression.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 5000
Teach For America - Bay Area
Program Title / Location: Support San Jose Teach For America Corps Members and Alumni / Emeryville, CA
Impact: Providing San Jose's most underserved students with excellent teachers while developing Teach For America's force of alumni leaders who are working to reform education.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 3910
The Peninsula Bridge Program
Program Title / Location: Peninsula Bridge Summer Program / Menlo Park, CA
Impact: Preparing middle school students from under-resourced neighborhoods for high school, college and beyond.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 230
The Role Model Program
Program Title / Location: The Community Classroom Visit Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing culturally diverse, adult role models and asset development to enable underserved elementary and middle school youth to prepare for college education and positive life outcomes.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1000
Third Street Community Center
Program Title / Location: Inspiring Young Minds And Families / San Jose, CA
Impact: Delivering an after school academic enrichment program for at-risk children and adult education classes for parents and other interested adults in San Jose.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 110
YES Reading
Program Title / Location: Literacy Tutoring for At-Risk Students in San Jose / Milpitas, CA
Impact: Opening the doors of literacy for 60 struggling children in San Jose's underserved communities.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 60
Arts in Education Programs
Asian Art Museum
Program Title / Location: K-12 Education Programs at the Asian Art Museum / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Teaching courses and programs on Asian art, culture, and history to 15,000 K-12 Bay Area students a year.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 15000
AXIS Dance Company
Program Title / Location: Dance Access/KIDS! / Oakland, CA
Impact: Bringing creative dance to ALL kids with and without disabilities with the support of Cisco Systems.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2100
Carnaval San Francisco - Mission Neighborhood Centers
Program Title / Location: Cultural Arts Education Program (CAEP) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing children and youth from San Francisco's poorest neighborhoods with access to well conceived and culturally relevant arts instruction.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1000
Film Arts Foundation
Program Title / Location: TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Teaching students digital technology and critical media literacy skills.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 50
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.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 2500
Northern California Public Broadcasting, 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.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 114
Oakland Asian Students Educational Services (OASES)
Program Title / Location: OASES LEAP & RISE Enrichment and Arts Programs / Oakland, CA
Impact: To provide 255 low-income, immigrant youth in1st-8th grade with enrichment, arts, computer, individualized tutoring and literacy programs that leverage California State curricular standards.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 255
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Program Title / Location: 2007-2008 Cultural Kaleidoscope Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Using the visual arts to build bridges between communities.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1500
Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Artists-in-Schools / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Improving the overall academic performance and critical thinking skills of 'at-risk' youth through the arts.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 160
San Francisco Jazz Organization
Program Title / Location: Jazz in the Middle / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Integrating jazz into the academic curriculum to build literacy skills in under performing middle schools.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 750
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Program Title / Location: Red Ladder Theatre Company / San Jose, CA
Impact: Empowering at-risk youth with creative problem-solving skills through performing arts.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 600
Tapestry Arts San Jose, Inc.
Program Title / Location: World Moves / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing elementary school children with multicultural arts education.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 180
Z Space Studio
Program Title / Location: Youth Arts: an arts education program of the Z Space Studio / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Reaching struggling readers with an innovative combination of theatre and literature.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1200
Zeum
Program Title / Location: Enriching K-12 Education Through Multimedia Arts and Technology Learning / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Building technical, critical thinking, problem-solving, and positive social skills through multimedia arts- and technology-based field trips to help 600 Bay Area youth to succeed in the classroom and the media-driven workforce.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 600
Adult Vocational Programs
Achievekids
Program Title / Location: Vocational Education / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing disabled students with the skills necessary to achieve self-reliance and independence.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 70
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 hand-out.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 500
Clausen House
Program Title / Location: Supported Employment / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing job training and employment to adults with developmental disabilities.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 35
Community Association for Rehabilitation
Program Title / Location: Employment Services / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Empowering 150 adults with developmental disabilities to be financially self-sufficient through job coaching and placement.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 150
Homeless Prenatal Program
Program Title / Location: Community Health Worker Training Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing CHW training to a poor, unemployed and formerly homeless woman enables her to achieve self-sufficiency for her and her family and become a role model for her children, greatly improving their chances for a better life.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 13
Narika
Program Title / Location: South Asian Economic Empowerment and Development / Berkeley, CA
Impact: Teaching South Asian new immigrant women ESL, computer literacy, financial planning and self confidence building.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 12
Pacific Autism Center
Program Title / Location: Vocational Training Program / Sunnyvale
Impact: Providing one-to-one vocational instruction to adolescents with autism.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 50
Sensory Access Foundation
Program Title / Location: SAF Employment Services Program Community Outreach / Sunnyvale, CA
Impact: Providing Employment Services to 250 individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 250
Services for Brain Injury
Program Title / Location: Return to Work Vocational Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Employing people with traumatic, acquired or blast brain injuries.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 45
Springboard Forward
Program Title / Location: Expanding and Scaling Springboard's Work / Belmont, CA
Impact: Expanding Springboard's existing Cisco-based programs and scaling the organization's impact beyond the region.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 75
Street Tech
Program Title / Location: Information Technology Career Training and Placement / San Pablo, CA
Impact: Training men and women for economic self-sufficiency through careers in information technology.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 120
The Family School
Program Title / Location: STRIVE Employment Training Program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing employment training and job placement services for low-income adults.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 20
Women's Audio Mission
Program Title / Location: WAM Corps: Training, Job Placement and Entrepreneur Incubator for Women / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing job placement and career/educational counseling services to 75 low-income, young women and helping 5 women develop thriving freelance media businesses.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 200
Youth UpRising
Program Title / Location: Career and Education / Oakland, CA
Impact: Increasing young adults' ability to become competitive and effective leaders in the marketplace.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 500
Health Programs
Aphasia Center of California
Program Title / Location: Communication Treatment Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: Providing speech-language treatment to uninsured and underinsured individuals with aphasia.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 25
Blind Babies Foundation
Program Title / Location: Off to a Good Start / Oakland, CA
Impact: Optimizing the success of blind and visually impaired children in the school system and the community.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 40
Caduceus Outreach Services
Program Title / Location: Psychiatric Treatment for Homeless Youth and Adults / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Providing psychiatric treatment and comprehensive social services to 100 homeless youth and adults in San Francisco.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 100
Coastside Family Medical Clinic
Program Title / Location: Pescadero Family Health Program / Half Moon Bay, CA
Impact: Providing medical and educational services to the un-insured and under-insured residents in the South Coast region of San Mateo County.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 400
Community Breast Health Project
Program Title / Location: Gabriella Patser Program / Palo Alto, CA
Impact: Providing screening and diagnostics services well as navigation and interpreting to low income, uninsured, women under 40.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 25
Crisis Support Services of Alameda County
Program Title / Location: 'Teens for Life' Suicide Education and Prevention Program / Oakland, CA
Impact: The 'Teens for Life' suicide education and prevention program is interactive, designed to prevent suicide in young people by teaching them to be able to ask for help when feeling hopeless.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1500
Eastfield Ming Quong, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Child and Adolescent Mobile Crisis Program (CACP) / Campbell, CA
Impact: Providing 24/7 crisis intervention and assessment to help stabilize over 900 children and adolescents who are severely depressed, suicidal, in acute psychological crisis, or who are acting out dangerous behaviors toward themselves or others.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 75
Friends for Youth, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Mentoring Services Wellness Project / Redwood City, CA
Impact: Providing opportunities for physical activities and encouraging healthy life choices through workshops, outings, and resources for economically disadvantaged mentees.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 125
Hospice of the Valley
Program Title / Location: Transitions / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing case management and support services for 100 individuals facing life-limiting diagnoses who are not eligible or appropriate for hospice care, and educating them and their families about their care options.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 40
Huckleberry Youth Programs
Program Title / Location: San Francisco Health Education program / San Francisco, CA
Impact: providing health prevention programs to San Francisco at-risk youth.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 200
InnVision the Way Home
Program Title / Location: Georgia Travis Center - Health Care for the Homeless Program / San Jose, CA
Impact: Providing access to critical healthcare for 350 homeless individuals.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 350
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.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 10000
LIFE ElderCare, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Falls Prevention Program / Fremont, CA
Impact: Helping seniors retain their independence to live in their own homes for as long as safely possible.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 80
National Alliance on Mental Illness - Santa Clara County
Program Title / Location: Substantial Increase in the Number of Clients Served by the Peer-to-Peer Course / Campbell, CA
Impact: Improving the ability of those with a severe mental illness to cope with their disease and thereby lead a more fulfilling life and possibly return to being productive members of society.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 80
National Kidney Foundation of Northern California, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Healthy Kidneys for Life / San Francisco, CA
Impact: Educating at-risk children about kidney disease and screening for its warning signs.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1000
Parents Helping Parents, Inc.
Program Title / Location: PHP's iTECH Assistive Technology Center / Santa Clara, CA
Impact: providing children with special needs with access to educational opportunities using assistive technology designed to augment their functionality and remove the barriers to success caused by their special needs.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 300
RotaCare Bay Area, Inc.
Program Title / Location: Pharmaceutical and Operational support for the San Jose RotaCare clinic / Gilroy, CA
Impact: Providing support for clinic and adminstrative staff, and pharmaceuticals and diagnostic care for use in direct patient care.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1000
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.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 17
South Bay Children's Medical Center
Program Title / Location: SBCMC Mobile Clinic / Los Gatos, CA
Impact: Providing access to health care, including physical exams, health screenings, follow-up visits and referrals for 250 children in Santa Clara County.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 200
St. Joseph's Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Program Title / Location: Deaf Families at Risk: Counseling and Family Education Program / Hayward, CA
Impact: Providing Counseling and Family Education for underserved deafened people.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 60
Sunday Friends Foundation
Program Title / Location: Healthy Living for At-Risk Children and their Families / San Jose, CA
Impact: Teaching healthy lifestyles, developmental assets and nutritious eating to at-risk youth while involving their parents.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 1000
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Program Title / Location: Expanded Back to School Program. Helping underserved pediatric cancer patients in the Silicon Valley succeed in school despite intensive medical treatment and educational barriers. / San Jose, CA
Impact: Training educators/school personnel, health professionals, and parents to help underserved pediatric cancer patients in the Silicon Valley succeed in school despite intensive medical treatment and educational barriers.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 250
Youth and Family Enrichment Services
Program Title / Location: OnYourMind.net website and chatroom / San Carlos, CA
Impact: Providing online peer counseling, health resources, support and information to troubled youth.
Grant Amount / Number Served: $15,000 / 9000
