The Cisco Foundation is proud to announce our Silicon Valley Impact Grant recipients for FY2008. Each grantee is awarded a set amount of $15,000.
K-12 Enrichment Programs
A Schmahl Science Workshop (San Jose)
Program: Reduced Fee Workshops for Underserved Students
Impact: Expanding science education to 3500 underserved students.
Aim High (East Palo Alto)
Program: Aim High
Impact: Offering academic enrichment to 105 low-income youth.
Alum Rock Counseling Center, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: ARCC Mentoring Services Program (MSP)
Impact: Providing 102 of East San Jose's most highest risk youth with adult role models in order to improve their academic performance and to help them make healthier choices for their physical, social, and emotional well-being.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area (San Francisco)
Program: Santa Clara County School-based Mentoring Program
Impact: Mentoring at-risk youth in Santa Clara County will result in an increase in healthy behaviors, improved academic performance, and improved relationships with parents, teachers, and other adults, of participating youth.
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (Menlo Park)
Program: Literacy, Engagement, and Achievement Right Now (LEARN) Initiative
Impact: Providing a multi-array of academic services to over 1,000 low income youth, ages 5-18 years old.
Bring Me a Book Foundation (Mountain View)
Program: San Jose's First Teachers 2008-2009
Impact: Training a team of 5 additional First Teachers facilitators from San Jose Unified School District that will provide 1,000 parents with workshops that empower parents to become their child's First Teacher and inspire them to read aloud daily.
California Dictionary Project (San Francisco)
Program: 2008-2009 Dictionary Day in Santa Clara County
Impact: Improving literacy by donating a dictionary to 8,300 third-grade public school students in Santa Clara County, California.
Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation (Oakland)
Program: Techbridge: Inspiring Girls in Technology, Science and Engineering
Impact: Inspiring girls in technology, science, and engineering, primarily from underserved communities.
City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley (San Jose)
Program: School Partnership Program
Impact: Improving the academic performance and enhancing the leadership skills of students in San Jose's most under-resourced schools.
College Track (Oakland)
Program: College Track Core Services
Impact: Prepararing under-resourced high school students for college.
Community Bridges (Aptos)
Program: The Readiness Project
Impact: Integrating cultural values, child development practices and experiential education for the academic and social growth of low-income children and their families.
Community Resources for Science (Berkeley)
Program: Community in the Classroom Science Role Model Volunteers
Impact: Expanding effective science role model volunteer program to meet demand in new school districts.
Family Service Agency of San Mateo County (San Mateo)
Program: Summer Science and Technology Explorations-Technology Curriculum Instructor
Impact: Providing vibrant and enriching learning opportunities for disadvantaged children, ensuring they can compete in the 21st century.
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (San Francisco)
Program: Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students (LiMPETS)
Impact: Inspiring youth to become ocean stewards and engaging them in marine sciences.
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County (San Leandro)
Program: Operation SMART (Science, Math, and Relevant Technology)
Impact: Providing hands-on math, science, and technology education for underserved girls in grades 3-7 in Alameda County.
Industry Initiatives for Science & Math Education (Santa Clara)
Program: Revitalizing and Retaining Teachers in Silicon Valley's High Need Schools
Impact: Providing K-12 teachers the skills and industry exposure they need to update their curriculum and motivate their students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM).
Juma Ventures (San Francisco)
Program: Pathways to College Program
Impact: Providing access to college through jobs, financial literacy education, asset building services, and college/career prep.
Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, Inc. (Santa Clara)
Program: Elementary School Economic Education and Career Education Programs
Impact: Teaching elementary school students through Junior Achievements volunteer led business, economic education and workforce readiness programs with priority on high need students.
Marine Science Institute (Redwood City)
Program: Discover Our Bay
Impact: Sparking an interest in science in underserved K-12 South and East Bay students.
Mission Science Workshop (San Francisco)
Program: Classroom Enrichment Program
Impact: Refining and improving the process of teaching science curriculums.
MK Level Playing Field Institute (San Francisco)
Program: Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH)
Impact: Increasing the number of talented underrepresented students of color seeking college degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math-related fields.
Morgan Autism Center (San Jose)
Program: Morgan Autism Center "Train The Trainers" Teachers Workshops
Impact: Offering school districts "train the trainer" workshop programs to train teachers on best practices including Morgan Autism Model to help the large influx of autistic children, teachers can train others and ultimately help thousands of children.
National Engineers Week Foundation (Martinez)
Program: Outreach Coordinator to underserved schools and Teacher Trainer
Impact: Helping to bridge the digital divide in economically challenged schools.
New Leaders, Inc. (Oakland)
Program: New Leaders for New Schools, Bay Area Program
Impact: Ensuring high levels of student achievement by attracting, preparing, and supporting the next generation of outstanding leaders for the Bay Area's urban public schools.
Omega Boys Club (San Francisco)
Program: Omega Leadership Academy
Impact: Developing academic, life and leadership skills of at-risk youth, including preparing for, entering and graduating from college.
O'Neill Sea Odyssey (Santa Cruz)
Program: San Jose Community Oceanography Program
Impact: Watershed-to-the-sea science and education for disadvantaged youth.
Refugee Transitions (Oakland)
Program: Bridge-2-Success Youth Development Program
Impact: Helping 80 refugee youth succeed academically and develop healthy relationships with adult role models.
Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project (SC/SVNTP) (Cupertino)
Program: Silicon Valley New Teacher Project Induction Program: Providing High Quality Mentor Processional Development Supported within a Collaborative Learning Environment and Aligned with District Initiatives.
Impact: Providing a high quality induction program to meet the unique needs of novice secondary teachers in partner districts and charter schools increasing teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
Save San Francisco Bay Association (Oakland)
Program: Save The Bay Watershed Education Program
Impact: Subsidizing 200 students' participation in Save The Bay's Watershed Education Program series, including an in-class session, on-the-water canoe trip, wetlands restoration activity, and teacher tools.
Silicon Valley Children's Fund (San Jose)
Program: Middle School Literacy Program
Impact: Raising foster youth reading and math literacy skills to grade level.
Summer Search (San Jose)
Program: Mentor Program
Impact: Mentoring for 90 low-income Silicon Valley youth, helping them gain self-awareness, take personal responsibility, and unlock their potential.
Teach For America - Bay Area (San Francisco)
Program: Support Teach For America's Growth in San Jose
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.
The Regents of the University of California (Santa Cruz)
Program: Girls in Engineering Program
Impact: Inspiring middle school girls to envision themselves as future engineers, a Cisco Silicon Valley Impact Grant will support the Girls in Engineering program at UCSC, expanding the STEM pipeline with underrepresented populations and encouraging young women.
The Role Model Program (San Jose)
Program: The Community Classroom Visit Program
Impact: Providing under-served youth with the role models, asset development and access to college information required to make college a reality.
Third Street Community Center (San Jose)
Program: Inspiring Young Minds And Families
Impact: Providing a comprehensive after school academic and enrichment program for 45 to 55 at-risk children, and providing adult education classes for their parents and/or other interested adults in San Jose.
YES Reading (Milpitas)
Program: Literacy Tutoring for Students Reading Below Grade Level in San Jose
Impact: Developing literacy skills of students from high-need San Jose elementary school.
Youth Community Service (Palo Alto)
Program: YCS Cesar Chavez After-school Service Clubs
Impact: Providing critical youth development, leadership and academic enrichment work with middle school age students at six weekly school-based YCS Service and Leadership Clubs in Ravenswood School District in East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park.
Arts in Education
American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: Writing a Musical
Impact: Enriching performing arts and language arts curriculum by empowering students to create their own musical play.
AXIS Dance Company (Oakland)
Program: Dance Access/KIDS!
Impact: Bringing creative dance to ALL kids with and without disabilities with the support of Cisco Systems.
Carnaval San Francisco -Mission Neighborhood Centers (San Francisco)
Program: Cultural Arts Education Program
Impact: Providing children and youth from San Francisco's poorest neighborhoods with access to well conceived and culturally relevant arts instruction.
Community School of Music and Arts (Mountain View)
Program: Arts-in-the-Schools Programs (Arts in Action & Music in Action)
Impact: Teaching 3,000 public elementary school students visual art and music with a weekly, sequential, standards-based curriculum.
Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco)
Program: Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools
Impact: Providing low-income and disenfranchised youth with media education and media literacy skills.
Mariposa's Art (Santa Cruz)
Program: San Jose Art and Leadership Development Programs
Impact: Providing after-school art and leadership development programs and mentor relationships to 125 at-risk youth.
Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: SPARK in Education (SPARKed)
Impact: Enhancing arts education programs at K-12 schools with educational resources and materials in conjunction with core curriculum, professional development trainings for educators, and visiting artists.
Oakland Asian Students Educational Services (OASES) (Oakland)
Program: OASES Empowerment Through Arts
Impact: Empowering low-income youth in Oakland through creative expression.
Performing Arts Workshop, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: Artists-in-Schools
Impact: Improving the overall academic performance and critical thinking skills of 'at-risk' youth through the arts.
San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild (San Jose)
Program: SJMAG Arts Education Program
Impact: Engaging young people in cultural diversity and the arts.
Tapestry Arts San Jose, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: World Moves
Impact: Providing elementary school children with multicultural arts education.
The Imagine Bus Project (San Francisco)
Program: ART BUS LITERACY ENRICHMENT (ABLE)
Impact: Incorporating art education into literacy programs for at-risk, low-income youth.
Zeum (San Francisco)
Program: Enriching K-12 Education Through Multimedia Arts and Technology Learning
Impact: Building technical, creative, and collaborative 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.
Adult Vocational Programs
Abilities United (Palo Alto)
Program: Adult Services-Employment/Independent Living
Impact: Empowering 180 adults with developmental disabilities to live independently and be financially self-sufficient through job coaching and placement, and living skill training.
Achievekids (Palo Alto)
Program: Vocational Program
Impact: Providing disabled students with the opportunity to develop job-skills, self-reliance, and independence.
Board of Trustees of the Glide Foundation (San Francisco)
Program: Glide YouthBuild
Impact: Supporting inner-city youth to transition from poverty to self-sufficiency through education, job training and placement in the union construction industry.
Community Gatepath (Burlingame)
Program: Community Employment Job Placement and Training
Impact: Employing individuals with disabilities at jobs of their choice in the community.
Community Housing Partnership (San Francisco)
Program: Employment and Training Programs
Impact: Providing vocational opportunities and on-the-job training to assist formerly homeless persons to re-enter the workforce and increase their economic self-sufficiency.
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco (San Francisco)
Program: ECS Skills Center
Impact: Helping homeless individuals with job skills/job counseling, and job training.
Imagine Supported Living Services (Capitola)
Program: Self Sufficiency through Supported Employment
Impact: Finding meaningful employment...one person at a time!
Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service (San Francisco)
Program: JobLink Employment Services for Adults with Disabilities
Impact: Providing job placement services to 85 adults with disabilities to successfully gain employment and move towards economic self-sufficiency.
Project HIRED (San Jose)
Program: HIRED Direct Job Search Training and Placement Program for Disabled Adults
Impact: Expanding online and classroom training opportunities for 250 or more disabled job seekers in the Bay Area.
The Family School (San Francisco)
Program: STRIVE Employment Program
Impact: Providing employment training and job placement services for low-income adults.
TransAccess (San Jose)
Program: Computer Access Technology Center
Impact: Providing computer assistive technology and training for persons with disabilities.
Upwardly Global (San Francisco)
Program: Upwardly Global Jobseeker Program
Impact: Enabling 180 professional immigrants to re-enter their careers in the US.
Youth UpRising (Oakland)
Program: Career and Education
Impact: Increasing young adults' ability to become competitive and effective leaders within their local community economies.
Health
Berkeley Food and Housing Project (Berkeley)
Program: Health services coordination
Impact: Providing access to Primary Care and Mental Health Services for the Homeless Program.
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Inc. (Oakland)
Program: CERI Cambodian Youth Services
Impact: Piloting a specialized counseling program with academic support services for at-risk Cambodian American youth in Oakland, in conjunction with family counseling and parent education for the parents/caregivers of participating youth and young adults.
Community Solutions for Children, Families & Individuals, Inc. (Morgan Hill)
Program: Sexual Assault Program (Santa Clara County)
Impact: Providing 24/7 crisis intervention, advocacy, and support for child victims of sexual assault and preventing future child abuse by educating children of methods that will contribute to keeping them safe.
Crisis Support Services of Alameda County (Oakland)
Program: "Teens fo Life" Suicide Education and Prevention Program
Impact: Teaching young people about depression and suicide prevention by giving them the information, skills and resources to access help when either they or a friend is feeling hopeless and at-risk for self destructive behavior.
Diabetes Society (San Jose)
Program: Bilingual/Bicultural Diabetes Educator Training
Impact: Training ten bilingual/bicultural Hispanic/Latino health care professionals as diabetes educators for the growing population of Hispanic/Latino individuals with, or at risk for diabetes.
Family Resources International (FRI) (Saratoga)
Program: Creation of a culturally and linguistically competent version of Celebrating Families! for Spanish speaking families in Santa Clara County (SCC).
Impact: Creating a culturally and linguistically competent version of Celebrating Families! for Spanish speaking families in Santa Clara County (SCC).
Huckleberry Youth Programs (San Francisco)
Program: San Francisco Health Education Program
Impact: Providing health prevention programs to San Francisco at-risk youth.
Kara, Inc. (Palo Alto)
Program: Youth and Family Services Program and Community Outreach and Education Program (CORE) in the schools
Impact: Supporting 20 families and 29 schools in the wake of a traumatic loss, reaching over 400 individuals with crisis intervention and grief support.
Northern California Presbyterian Homes & Services Foundation (San Francisco)
Program: WellElder
Impact: To provide hundreds of low-income seniors with access to community health and medical care, enabling them to remain independent for as long as possible.
Nurse Managed Centers c/o The Tower Foundation (San Jose)
Program: Automated Nursing Notes Patient Record-Keeping System, Nurse Managed Centers
Impact: Providing better continuity of care and care review to over 2500 patients annually in multiple settings.
Parents Helping Parents Inc. (Santa Clara)
Program: iTECH Center for Assistive Technology
Impact: Providing children with special needs access to educational opportunities using assistive technology designed to augment their functionality and remove the barriers to success caused by their special needs.
RotaCare Bay Area, Inc. (Gilroy)
Program: San Jose and Gilroy RotaCare Free Clinics
Impact: Supporting of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in direct patient care.
Santa Cruz Women's Health Center (Santa Cruz)
Program: Improving Preventive Healthcare for Low-Income Residents of Santa Cruz County
Impact: Improving the health status of low-income women and children by expanding our capacity to efficiently schedule regular medical appointments.
School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County (San Jose)
Program: Yerba Buena Neighborhood Health Clinic
Impact: Primary health care services will be provided to an increased number of low-income children of San Jose.
Shanti Project, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: Volunteer Caregivers Program
Impact: Training "ordinary" citizens to provide extraordinary support to people with life-threatening illnesses.
SJB Child Development Centers (San Jose)
Program: SJBCDC Preschool Health Services
Impact: Providing health screenings for a minimum of 500 underprivileged preschool age children. (dental, vision, weight and height).
South Bay Children's Medical Center (Los Gatos)
Program: Mobile Health Clinic
Impact: Providing access to free and low-cost health care for all children in Santa Clara County.
Teen Pregnancy Coalition of San Mateo County (REDWOOD CITY)
Program: Teen Talk
Impact: Educating high-risk youth about pregnancy and STD prevention.
The Art of Yoga Project (Palo Alto)
Program: Yoga and Creative Arts Curriculum
Impact: Providing yoga and art therapy training for 1000 girls at the MJK Camp for Girls at the San Mateo Juvenile Hall.
Women's HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
Program: SHE Link
Impact: Providing access to comprehensive female-focused care for newly diagnosed or out-of-care HIV+ women and thier families.
Youth and Family Enrichment Services (San Carlos)
Program: OnYourMind.net
Impact: Providing health resources, support, and information to San Mateo County youth in an innovative web-based format.
