The Cisco Foundation is proud to announce our Silicon Valley Impact Grant recipients for FY2009. Each grantee is awarded a set amount of $15,000.
K-8 Programs (Access to Education)
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (Menlo Park)
Program: LEARN: Literacy, Engagement and Achievement Right Now
Impact: Serving 1,100 disadvanted, minority youth through after-school academic and enrichment programs.
Breakthrough Collaborative (Fiscal Agent) (San Jose)
Program: Breakthrough Anywhere
Impact: Providing computer access and training to low-income high achieving high school students in Silicon Valley.
California Alliance of African American Educators (San Jose)
Program: Dr. Frank S. Greene Scholars Program
Impact: Increasing the success rate of African American students pursuing careers related to math, science or technology.
Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation (Oakland)
Program: Techbridge: Inspiring Girls in Technology, Science, and Engineering
Impact: Inspiring underserved girls towards technology, science and engineering careers.
Citizen Schools (Redwood City)
Program: Support of Citizen Schools Programs in Silicon Valley
Impact: Providing access for more than 200 of Silicon Valley's low-income middle-school students to participate in after-school activities, including STEM apprenticeships, to improve their traditional and 21st Century skills.
Cleo Eulau Center (Mountain View)
Program: Resiliency Consultation Program
Impact: Building resiliency in teachers, students and school communities to support the social and emotional needs of youth and increase academic motivation and engagement.
Collective Roots (East Palo Alto)
Program: Garden Power! A garden based science, techonology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Program
Impact: Developing and implementing a garden based science program connecting sustainable food production with renewable energy sources to enrich core science programs for elementary school children in East Palo Alto.
Community Resources for Science (Berkeley)
Program: Community in the Classroom
Impact: Providing science curriculum and role model support for elementary public school classrooms in Alameda County.
Computer History Museum (Mountain View)
Program: Computer History Museum Education Program
Impact: Inspiring student interest in computing and technology as rewarding fields of study and future careers through a cultural enrichment program.
Easter Seals Society of the Bay Area (Oakland)
Program: The Autism Project Train the Trainer Program
Impact: Training teachers to build on the individual learning strengths of their students with autism and to use state-of-the-art, evidence-based methods, will help them help their students build meaningful skills across a variety of settings.
EdventureMore! (San Francisco)
Program: ICE: In-class Curriculum Enhancements
Impact: Supporting K-12 science education through exciting, hands-on presentations that inspire a love of science in children.
Environmental Volunteers (Palo Alto)
Program: Educating for Depth
Impact: Increasing science literacy in underserved communities.
Ethiopian Community Services, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: After-School Youth Program
Impact: Improving grades of 30 underpreivileged students.
Family Service Agency of San Mateo County (San Mateo)
Program: Club Leo J. Ryan School-Age Program-Technology Curriculum Instructor
Impact: Providing computer literacy for low-income disadvantaged school-aged children.
Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (Palo Alto)
Program: Internet Solutions to School Science Outreach
Impact: Using the Internet to strengthen museum-school partnerships and enrich science education in underserved communities.
Girl Scouts of Northern California (San Jose)
Program: In-School Science: Hands-on science for 2,400 low-income youth in San Jose schools
Impact: Developing science, teamwork and leadership skills while learning key science concepts and problem-solving methods so low-income youth, ages 7-12, can consider higher-level science courses and science/technology career options.
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County (San Leandro)
Program: The All STARS (Sports, Technology, Academics, Responsibility, and Sisterhood) Middle School Program
Impact: Sparking low income girls' interest in and aptitude for information technology and mathematics.
Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network (San Jose)
Program: Math Matters: JVSV's Alliance for Teachers, Middle School Math Teacher Professional Development Project
Impact: Developing teaching skills of middle school math teachers by increasing their understanding of math content and improving instruction through intensive Intel Math Institute and Professional Learning Communities in the lowest performing middle schools.
Marine Science Institute (Redwood City)
Program: Discover our Bay
Impact: Teaching 17,500 K-8 grade students science and math skills through hands-on experiences with the San Francisco Bay onboard a research ship, in a shoreside Discovery Lab, and with live animals in their classrooms.
Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club (San Mateo)
Program: Education & Technology
Impact: Developing self-esteem, improving academic performance, and enhancing overall mental and physical well-being among low-income, at-risk youth.
MIND Research Institute (Santa Ana)
Program: Silicon Valley Math Initiative
Impact: Helping teachers elevate student math achievement in Silicon Valley's lowest performing schools.
New Leaders, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: New Leaders for New Schools - Partners in School Innovation Data-Driven Instruction Collaboration
Impact: Training teachers and school leaders how to use data-driven instruction effectively in five Bay Area schools.
New Teacher Center (Santa Cruz)
Program: Enriching Pre-Algebra and Algebra Instruction for Beginning Teachers in Santa Clara County Through Online Resources for Strategic Math Mentoring
Impact: Strengthening the pre-algebra and algebra instructional strategies, induction assessment tools and resources available online for mentors to use in supporting new 4th-8th grade teachers in high need target area schools in SCC.
O'Neill Sea Odyssey (Santa Cruz)
Program: San Jose Community Oceanography Program
Impact: Making use of the ocean as a science classroom.
Pacifica School Volunteers (Pacifica)
Program: Volunteers in Math
Impact: Helping struggling students conquer math.
Partners in School Innovation (San Francisco)
Program: Continuous School Improvement
Impact: Accelerating learning for underserved Latino, African American and English Learner students and transforming low-income and low-performing schools into thriving learning environments to serve the downtown San Jose community.
Raphael House of San Francisco, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: Raphael House After-School Program
Impact: Providing academic support for children who have experienced homelessness.
Resource Area For Teachers (San Jose)
Program: Professional training classes and activity kits for hands-on learning in the classroom
Impact: Transforming the classroom experience by using hands-on activities to inspire teachers and students.
Sacred Heart Community Service (San Jose)
Program: Turn the Tide Youth Education Program
Impact: Increasing student performance in language and math and increasing parental involvement in children's education.
San Jose Grail Family Services (San Jose)
Program: Children's BEST for Achievement After School Literacy Program
Impact: Strengthening literacy skills and increasing parent involvement in chilren learning experiences.
Second Start Learning Disabilities Programs Inc. (San Jose)
Program: Collaborative with Franklin McKinley School District
Impact: Developing teacher training for Asperger students.
Silicon Valley Children's Fund (San Jose)
Program: Middle School Foster Youth Initiative
Impact: Raising foster youth reading and math literacy skills to grade level.
Super Stars Literacy, Inc. (Oakland)
Program: Super Stars Literacy, Restructuring of Program Evaluation System
Impact: Addressing the primary causes of school failure by developing fundamental literary skills and building cognitive competency and emotional resiliency.
The Regents of the University of California (Santa Cruz)
Program: 2009 Girls in Engineering Program
Impact: Inspiring middle school girls to envision themselves as future engineers or professionals in STEM fields.
Today's Youth Matter (Milpitas)
Program: Science Summer Camp and Follow-up
Impact: Exciting vulnerable children in the field of science by hands-on experiences in a week-long camp.
Trust for Hidden Villa (Los Altos Hills)
Program: Supporting Our Teachers
Impact: Assisting teachers with science engagement.
W.E.R.C. (Morgan Hill)
Program: Learn Something Wild!
Impact: Presenting educational outreach programs to area children and their educators.
Adult Vocational Programs (Individual Economic Empowerment)
AnewAmerica Community Corporation (San Jose)
Program: Anew E-Store
Impact: Empowering new American entrepreneurs to succeed online.
Ascent Employment Program (San Jose)
Program: Ascent Employment Program
Impact: Motivating clients with troubled and disadvantaged backgrounds to obtain meaningful employment.
C.E.O. Women (Oakland)
Program: C.E.O. Women's Starting a Small Business Training Program
Impact: Helping low-income immigrant and refugee women start or expand small businesses and improve their livelihoods.
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc. (Santa Cruz)
Program: Green Technologies Training and Employment Services (GreenTech)
Impact: Providing green technology training and employment services to educate and prepare low-income women to enter local jobs in green businesses and industries.
Community Housing Partnership (San Francisco)
Program: Employment and Training
Impact: Providing vocational opportunties and on-the-job training to assist formerly homeless persons to re-enter the workforce and increase their economic self-sufficiency.
Community Technology Alliance (San Jose)
Program: Employment Enhancements for Tools for Ending Chronic Homelessness in Santa Clara County (TechSCC)
Impact: Providing shared, web-based tools for connecting unemployed, unhoused Silicon Valley residents to opportunites for self-sufficiency.
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco (San Francisco)
Program: ECS Skills Center and CHEFS Culinary Training Program
Impact: helping homeless individuals with job skills, job counseling, and job training.
Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: ReCompute Expansion Project
Impact: Providing marginalized low-income individuals with industry recognized certified technical training that allows for sustainable and stable employment opportunities in the growing IT sales and service industry.
Imagine Supported Living Services (Capitola)
Program: A Path to Self Sufficiency and Financial Stability Through Supported Employment
Impact: Finding and sustaining employment...one person at a time!
Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service (San Francisco)
Program: Access to Employment
Impact: Helping jobseekers to secure employment by developing their work re-entry skills through group services, enhanced by innovative uses of internet technology.
Project HIRED (San Jose )
Program: Project HIRED Resource and Training Center
Impact: Expanding on-line training opportunities for 250 job seekers with disabilities in the Bay Area.
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (San Francisco)
Program: Development of an Interactive, On-line Self-Assessment Tool to Guide Lower Income Entrepreneurs into the Business Skills Classes and Workshops that are Most Appropriate for their Skills Level
Impact: Developing an on-line, interactive self-assessment tool to determine lower-income entrepreneurs' business skills level and guide them to the most appropriate training and services offered by Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center.
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center (San Jose)
Program: Employment Services for Persons with disabilities
Impact: Equipping individuals with disabilities with the tools to enter and compete within the marketplace, and offering an underlying support system that enables them to retain employment and achieve a lasting rather than a transitory change in their lives.
The Stride Center (San Pablo)
Program: Workforce Development Training for IT careers
Impact: Providing individuals and families the opportunty for self-sufficiency through training, certification and employment.
Upwardly Global (San Francisco)
Program: Jobseeker Services
Impact: Training and professional placement services for 208 refugees and immigrants.
Wardrobe for Opportunity (Oakland)
Program: Success Series for Men
Impact: Empowering 75 working men to retain employment, build successful careers and realize their dreams.
Women's Initiative for Self Employment (San Francisco)
Program: Economic Empowerment through Microenterprise
Impact: Providing low-income and minority women with the training, capital and resources they need, Women's Initiative helps them start their own businesses or re-enter the workforce and ultimately, support themselves and their families financially.
Health Programs (Basic Human Needs)
Adolescent Counseling Services (Palo Alto)
Program: On-Campus Counseling (OCC) Program
Impact: Providing at least 25 underserved, low-income middle and high school students in San Mateo County with mental health therapy, crisis intervention and support services, as well as one community/parent education presentation, annually.
Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance (Oakland)
Program: Alameda County Transition Age Youth LifePortal
Impact: Developing a youth-oriented, interactive online community to link transition-age youth in Alameda County with essential health and mental health information and services.
Ambulatory Surgery Access Coaltion DBA Operation Access (San Francisco)
Program: Bridging the healthcare gap: efficient patient care and network communications through web and IT solutions
Impact: Implementing web and IT systems to more efficiently bridge the healthcare gap.
Berkeley Food and Housing Project (Berkeley)
Program: Access to HealthCare for the Homeless
Impact: Accessing healthcare services for some of the most impoverished and disabled citizens of Alameda County.
Catalyst for Youth, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: Enhancing Web-Based Perinatal Substance Abuse Resources and Trainings for Health Care Professionals
Impact: Reducing the number of substance exposed infants by enhancing web-based resources and trainings for health care professionals.
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Inc. (Oakland)
Program: Reviving Our Youths' Aspirations (ROYA): A Mental Health Services Program for Cambodian American Teens and Young Adults and Their Families
Impact: Providing mental health counseling, case management, and support services for at-risk Cambodian American youth and young adults in Oakland, in conjunction with family counseling and parent education for the parents/caregivers of participating youth.
Community Gatepath (Burlingame)
Program: Early Intervention Services for Children with Special Needs
Impact: Fostering the healthy growth and development of children from birth to three years.
Community Health Awareness Council (Mountain View)
Program: Teen Talk!
Impact: Protecting 5th through 12th grade students from high risk health behaviors while building the personal assets that will support their future health and well being.
Familia Center (Santa Cruz)
Program: Health and Nutrition Education
Impact: Providing diabetes and nutrition education to uninsured and underserved Latinos in the city of Santa Cruz.
FamiliesFirst, Inc. (Campbell)
Program: Child and Adolescent Crisis Program (CACP)
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.
Family Resources International (FRI) (Saratoga)
Program: ¡Celebrando Familias!
Impact: Completing development of ¡Celebrando Familias! -- a culturally competent version of Celebrating Families! for monolingual Spanish speaking families affected by substance abuse.
Family Supportive Housing, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: CHILDREN FIRST Health Services Project
Impact: Maximizing the health and well-being of 400 homeless children and youth through education and health screenings.
Gardner Family Health Network (San Jose)
Program: Hispanic Children and Youth Obesity Education and Diabetes Prevention Program
Impact: Using early intervention and preventative health care to fight the diabetes epidemic in low-income Hispanic children.
InnVision the Way Home (San Jose)
Program: InnVision Georgia Travis Center Healthcare for the Homeless
Impact: Providing homeless and low-income families and individuals with free direct medical care and health education and resources.
Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services (San Francisco)
Program: Expanding Transgender Access to Health Care
Impact: Creating an online training program and consultation service to help clinics and individual health providers build medical and cultural competency to treat transgender patients, a profoundly medically underserved community.
Maitri (San Francisco)
Program: Enhancing End-of-Life Care for Persons Living with Late-Stage AIDS
Impact: Meeting the complex, multi-faceted needs of 48 people living with late-stage AIDS.
May Institute, Inc. (Randolph)
Program: Social Skills Training Groups for Children with ASD and Other Disabilities
Impact: Providing social skills training for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other disabilities from low income families.
Mayview Community Health Center, Inc (Palo Alto)
Program: Implementing a Chronic Disease Self-Management Patient Education Program at MayView Community Health Center
Impact: Promoting chronic disease self management to improve clinical outcomes of underserved patient populations.
Morgan Autism Center (San Jose)
Program: Improving Communication Skills for Non Verbal Autistic Children Changes their Lives Dramatically
Impact: Improving communication skills for non verbal autistic children, helping to create emotional stability.
RotaCare Bay Area, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: Provide free medical care to uninsured, low-come individuals.
Impact: Increasing patient access to pharmaceuticals, radiology, and medical supplies.
Santa Clara Family Health Foundation (Campbell)
Program: Healthy Kids Program
Impact: Providing one year of health coverage to 17 low-income children in Santa Clara County.
Santa Cruz Women's Health Center (Santa Cruz)
Program: Access to Healthcare for Senior & MediCare Patients
Impact: Increasing access to primary health care services and improving quality of care for a growing population of Medicare and senior patients.
School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County (San Jose)
Program: San Jose High Neighborhood Health Clinic
Impact: Providing quality health care to the low income children of San Jose.
Shanti Project, Inc. (San Francisco)
Program: Shanti's LifeLines Breast Cancer Program ( LifeLines)
Impact: Providing crucial practical and emotional support to at least 105 individuals with breast cancer from underserved, low income and immigrant populations -- some of San Francisco's most vulnerable communities.
STOP AIDS Project (San Francisco )
Program: Transform Positive Force website into an interactive resources, referalls and information website with social networking capacity for program participants.
Impact: Developing an online interactive education and support system for HIV positive men.
Teen and Family Counseling Center, Inc. (Campbell)
Program: Alcohol and Drug Awareness and Resiliency Program
Impact: Providing 246 Alcohol and Drug Counseling Service Sessions for 50 at-risk adolescents.
The Arc of San Francisco (San Francisco)
Program: Health Advocacy Services in San Mateo County for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Impact: Providing adults with developmental disabilities with access to health care.
Unity Care Group, Inc. (San Jose)
Program: Group Homes for At-Risk Foster Care Youth
Impact: Providing ongoing training and certification opportunities for staff serving the youth in the Group Homes for At-Risk Foster Care Youth Program.
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Palo Alto)
Program: Independent Living Medication Management Services
Impact: Training blind and visually impaired individuals to manage medications and monitor chronic conditions such as diabetes independently.
VMC Foundation (San Jose)
Program: Technology Access Program
Impact: Providing patients with disabilities and families with injured children access to the best and most appropriate technology in order to aid healing, promote family contact and provide access to health information in their native language.
