LinkedIn for Good Nonprofit Idea Grant Recipients - Round 2, 2015

1. NONPROFIT IDEA GRANTS
Round 2, 2015

2. Today, we're excited to announce
the 25 recipients and their
employee champions.

3. Nonprofit Idea Grants enable
employees to make an impact in
a way that inspires them, by
supporting the charities and
nonprofits they care about.

4. World Access for the Blind
aims to democratize the
process of learning to move
and navigate the world for the
blind. WAFT will use the grant
to create a multimedia
instructional course for blind
people, their families, and
professionals that presents
information and strategies for
self-guided learning of
Perceptual-Navigation
(moving purposefully,
efficiently, and safely through
any environment).
Faith Brill
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
World Access for the Blind

5. Camp Reel Stories will use
the grant to expand its innovative
media camp for girls
to a second location in Los Angeles.
Building on the success
of its Oakland
program, Camp Reel Stories will
begin weekend workshops in Los
Angeles for 13-18
year old girls this fall.
Camp Reel Stories believes that
when women and girls are better
represented
behind the scenes they will be
better reflected on the screen.
Camp Reel Stories is a
non-profit that empowers young
women with the skills to create
their own media, to view current
media critically and thoughtfully,
and to aspire to leadership
positions.
Bryan Mascioli
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Campus Reel Stories

6. Northwest Youth Corps will help
establish its new Idaho Conservation
Corps program, to offer diverse Idaho
youth and young adults an opportunity
to earn money as they benefit Idaho’s
public lands and waters and receive
meaningful job-training.
Participants will decrease the threat of
catastrophic wildfire through thinning;
help to maintain or build needed
recreational trails; and have an
opportunity to earn at least one
industry-recognized credential needed
for the workforce.
As it starts its 33rd year of improving
the lives of thousands of youth and
young adults, Northwest Youth Corps
thanks you for being an important part
of this journey!
Lucas Deming
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Northwest Youth Corps

7. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Move This World (MTW) will
implement trainings and daily
Virtual Tools for Emotional
Wellbeing to over 7,500 students
and teachers in partner schools
across New York City so that
ritualized social and emotional
wellbeing are an integrated part of
teaching and learning.
By collaborating with MTW,
schools will decrease suspensions,
incident reports, chronic
absenteeism, teacher attrition and
other barriers to teaching and
learning while improving educator
morale and organizational health.
Jason Abrams
Move This World, Inc

8. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
St. Francis Secondary School is a boarding
school in Lower Subukia, Kenya that
provides secondary education for
local children. By educating girls from
high-poverty, rural areas, the school has
made a significant progress in gender
parity in secondary education. The school
also provides education and care of
children with disabilities.
The grant will be used to build new school
facilities and to provide children
with better living and studying
conditions during their schooling.
Marijana Novakovic
St Francis Secondary School ­ Subukia

9. Suicide or Survive offers Wellness Recovery Action Planning
(WRAP) programs in the community to help people monitor and
manage their own mental wellness, identify triggers and signs
that their wellness is being challenged and develop plans for
what they will do to manage their wellness when this happens.
WRAP was initially developed by and for people who have
experienced significant mental health difficulties. That said, it can
be useful to anyone planning and managing their own
wellbeing. Visit http://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wrap-is/ for
more info.
This innovation initiative seeks to address mental health and
suicide prevention in Ireland. It is aimed at young people, prisoners
and members of the general public. This project is different from
other existing models of WRAP delivery as it will identify 1 – 2
individuals who will go on to train as WRAP facilitators with
Suicide or Survive.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
WWW.EUSS.EDU
Olivia Hunt
Suicide or Survive

10. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
America Needs You (ANY) is a national
nonprofit organization dedicated to
fighting for the economic mobility of
first-generation college students.
While ANY has achieved phenomenal
results in working with current college
students, it has not engaged alumni
after they have graduated from the
program to date.
To improve this aspect, ANY will use
the grant to support its alumni
through a quarterly workshop series,
which will focus on topics tailored
their lives as fulltime workers and/or
graduate students.
Mario Rosser
America Needs You

11. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANTS
The grant will be used to increase
the educational and social
opportunities of motivated, under-
privileged middle school students
in Denver and Englewood public
schools.
With this grant, Breakthrough
Kent Denver will be able to
provide transportation, materials,
and food to the 200+ youth who
are enrolled in the program and
aspiring to change their futures
through education.
Ryan Paugh
Breakthrough Kent Denver

12. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes
communities, individuals and
resources to provide food on the
weekends for elementary school
children across America who might
otherwise go hungry. In each
community where Blessings is
feeding hungry children, there is a
team of volunteers leading the
efforts.
This grant will be used to
create an online volunteer
service and training program to
support the organization. By
helping its volunteers increase their
effectiveness and efficiency, more
children living with food insecurity
will be able to receive weekend
nutrition – ultimately bringing
Blessings in a Backpack closer to
their goal of providing 17.5 million
hunger-free weekends by 2020.
Katherine Morse
Blessings in a Backpack

13. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
WWW.EUSS.EDU
Global Exchange Students (GSE) restores,
maintains, and preserves the intensely
degraded forests surrounding the Cordillera
Del Balsamo in Manabi, Ecuador. It does this
through an intensive forest restoration
program that involves thousands of local and
US-based youth.
GSE exemplifies successful restoration of
watersheds in Tropical Dry Forest
systems and is a community-based model that
can inspire and inform future work in this
field.
Leonardo is proud to support this project as
the LinkedIn Employee Champion since he
was born and raised in this part of the world.
Global Students Embassy
Leonardo Intriago
Ganchozo

14. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
TRIAD will scale
ImprovED, its improvisation-based
health and life skills education
program with several trusted
community-based organizations
(CBOs) in Haiti and South Africa.
This grant will be used to train an
ImprovED "master" troupe in Haiti
and enable thousands of vulnerable
youth to engage in this fun,
contextually-relevant, and effective
program. Within two years, this
master troupe will be qualified to
train new troupes on its own,
enabling additional CBOs to
introduce ImprovED to their
beneficiaries.
Hillary Densen
The Triad TRUST, Inc

15. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
BreakAwayworkswiththestudentleaders
of avolunteerprogramcalledAlternative
Breaksatover200collegecampuses.
ThroughthesepartnershipsBreakAway
impactsover1,000communities.
BreakAwaywillusethisgranttoimplement
CommunityImpactLabs -aninnovative
trainingmodelforBreakAwaystudentsand
communitypartners thatincludes:historical
overviewofsocialissuesinthecity,
neighborhoodassetmapping,recruitment
andmobilization,andvolunteercommitment
andaccountability.
The ImpactLabsserveto traincoordinators
toworkwithvolunteergroupstobuild
lasting,sustainableimpactinthe
communities.
Break Away: The Alternative Break Connection
Katey Gama

16. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
BUILD is tackling the high school
dropout crisis in under-served
communities through a powerful
combination of entrepreneurship
education, real-world business
experience, and mentorship.
This grant will be used to pilot
creative new programs to
strengthen relationships between
students and mentors.
Maya Babla
Businesses United in Investing,
Lending and Developing (BUILD)

17. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Apne Aap's goal is to hold Gender
Sensitization workshops for
children studying in 6th, 7th and
8th standards in two
schools in Jaipur.
It will lead four workshops on
gender equality and gender-based
violence using Priya’s Shakti, an
engaging comic book based on
Indian mythology.
Workshop sessions will involve
drawing, role play, videos,
powerpoint presentations, and
reading the comic book. After the
session, facilitators will lead a Q&A
session to assess what the students
have learned.
Yogesh Goel
Apne Aap

18. EASTWAY UNIVERSITY
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Barakat Bundle will use the
LIFG grant to distribute
maternal and newborn
essentials kits to new
families in rural Gujarat,
India.
These kits include life-
saving medical solutions as
well as culturally-desirable
items to provide all
newborns with an equal
start in life, regardless of
where they are born.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Jennifer Guo
Barakat Bundle

19. TheGurukulamschoolprovidesfree
education,meals,textbooksand
uniformsto205economically
underprivilegedchildren(definedas
childrenofparentswhomakeless
than$4USDperday)
fromkindergardentohighschool.
Eachchildissupporteduntiltheycan
reachcollegeorvocationaltraining
oruntiltheycanbefinancially
independentandbreakthepoverty-
manuallaborcycle.Thisisthevision
ofitseminentfounderCapt.
Nandkumarwhohasdedicatedhis
lifetoempoweringeconomically
underprivilegedchildren.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Ramakrishnan Mohan
Trust Children

20. The FareShare FoodCloud project
works to ensure that no edible
food goes
uneaten. It has developed a
program that connects stores to
charities and community groups to
meet this goal.
Every evening participating stores
post a list of food that was not sold
that day and notify partner
charities and community
organizations via text message.
The charities then arrange to pick
up the food at participating
stores.
This grant will help volunteers
provide greater support to
charities in a variety of ways.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Sherin Helmy
FaceShare

21. NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Team Kenya works with local
communities and organizations
in rural western Kenya to
develop long-term, sustainable
solutions to tackle inequality and
extreme poverty. It educates
girls and empowers women to
transform communities.
Team Kenya will offer
scholarships to two girls from the
neighboring Kuodogo
community, creating more ‘Girls
Education Ambassadors’ within
the Ndhiwa area.
Maeve Delahunt
Team Kenya

22. This grant will support OIC:
The Cambodia Project
to train teachers in Cambodia
to support and
include children with
disabilities. These are
children like Ling, who has
cerebral palsy. Due to this
condition, Ling's speech is
unclear and he was unable to
go to school. However, due to
basic speech therapy
and support of local teachers,
OIC was able to get him to
school for the first time at age
12. He's now coming second
in his class.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Katrina Steedman
OIC: The Cambodia Project

23. C4Q's 9-month intensive
tech training program,
Access Code, has helped
professionals from diverse
gender, ethnic, and socio-
economic backgrounds
transform their careers.
This grant will help C4Q
fund an apprenticeship
program in partnership with
top tier tech companies. The
programs will help students
access an even broader
range of opportunities.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Chris Hazlett and
Marvin Li
Coalition for Queens

24. EASTWAY UNIVERSITY
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES WWW.EUSS.EDU
GiGi’s Playhouse is a unique
achievement center serving
children and adults
with Down Syndrome. Gigi's
Playhouse provides
educational and therapeutic
programs, all for free.
Its programs aim to maximize
self-confidence and empower
individuals to achieve their
greatest potential.
This grant will fund a new
kitchenette at GiGi’s
Playhouse in Chicago, which
will be specifically used to
launch a new healthy cooking
and lifestyle education
initiative for teens and adults.
Nina Cordier
GiGi's Playhouse Chicago
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT

25. TheVoiceAdvocacyCenter's
missionistoassistchildrenand
adultswhostruggletoread,
write,andspellduetodyslexia
orotherrelatedreading
disorders.
Thisgrantwillhelptoextend
educationalservicestoadults
withdyslexiaandliteracy
challenges."
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Romaro Nelson
Voice Advocacy Center

26. Bootstrapteachesstudentsto
programtheirownvideogames
usingpurelyalgebraicconcepts,
bringingfunctionalprogramming
andrigorousalgebraexposureto
everystudent.
Byprovidingtrainingfor30+math
andcomputerscienceteachers,
thisgrantwillbuildteacher
capacitytodeliverBootstrapto
thousandsofchildrenacrossthe
BayAreaeveryear.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Pi-Chuan Chang
Bootstrap (Brown University)

27. WWW.EUSS.EDU
Centro Community Partners
develops mobile apps,
including a Business Planning
App, to help underserved
entrepreneurs launch and
grow their businesses.
With this grant, thousands of
entrepreneurs will be able to
create their business plans
from the convenience of their
mobile devices.
CHAPTER 1
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Sanjay Melwani
Centro Community Partners

28. This grant will provide 40
under-served Chicago
middle schoolers with
iPads and a cloud-based
summer school learning
program, enabling these
students to bridge the
digital divide and ‘catch
up’ with students from
more affluent areas.
NONPROFIT IDEA
GRANT
Chris Kelleher
Horizons for Youth
Inspired by the late Lauren Heath,
and Paige Barnett

29. will be launching a new
employee grants program
soon. Stay tuned for more
information!