The 2007 Technology for Youth Development Grant Recipients

These grants are designed to enable visionary youth development organizations to accomplish innovative technology projects and solutions that advance their core mission.

United States

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area, San Francisco, California

The vision of Big Brothers Big Sisters is to provide a caring adult mentor to every child in need across five Bay Area counties. This grant will enable the creation of an online web portal using Salesforce technology as a means to recruit a larger population of volunteers and obtain child development benchmark assessments.

The Bronx Lab School, Bronx, New York

To prepare for college and life, Bronx Lab School students engage in meaningful and contextual academic work; participate in a nurturing community; explore their passions; and learn to value effort as a means to success.To enable the creation of a 21st century classroom, their grant funded "Classroom 2.0" project will radically change students' educational experience by providing a flexible and dynamic workspace for students to use technology throughout all parts of their day.

George Mark Children's House, San Leandro, California

The goal of George Mark is to assist families in remaining intact, functional and capable of achieving the highest quality of life together in the midst of extreme circumstances. The grant will help this pediatric respite, transitional, and end of life care facility develop an interactive comic book game for children who are terminally ill as an innovative way for them to connect with others, feel less isolated, and share their stories.

San Francisco School Volunteers, San Francisco, California

By acting as a bridge between the community and the classroom, the Education Fund increases the availability and impact of resources for students and teachers throughout San Francisco public schools. The grant will help fund an overhaul of SFSV's technology systems and create an online community to facilitate the organization's goal of engaging a community of volunteers to support San Francisco's public schools.

Europe, Middle East and Africa

CityWise Education, Dublin, Ireland

Citywise provides educational support to young people living in disadvantaged communities that incorporates emotional, social and personal development support. With this grant, they will upgrade technology facilities at a new youth center in Ireland to facilitate the organization's mission.

MaAfrika Tikkun, Johannesburg, South Africa

MaAfrika Tikkun aims to empower and transform previously disadvantaged South African communities by focusing on vulnerable children, their guardians and environment. This is achieved by investing in and delivering service excellence in the areas of education, economics, health and social services, which operate out of community centers. This grant will expand the current IT center for students and youth in Alexandra Township, South Africa, with additional computers and resources as part of the organization's mission to uplift, build, and ultimately transform disadvantaged communities.

Meningitis Trust, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

The goal of Meningitis Trust is for all communities to be aware of the threat and impact of meningitis and for anyone affected to have access to quality care and support for as long as they need it. This grant will enable them to re-design and update an online Learning Pod for young people in the UK to learn about meningitis at home and school and reduce the potential threat of the disease.

Mouth That Roars, London, England

Mouth that Roars is a film production company working with and training young people in video production. This grant is designed to help them replicate the success of its media programs in Bahariya, Egypt.

The Parents Circle, Jerusalem and Azor, Israel

The Parents Circle aims to inspire peace between Israeli and Palestinian communities. This grant will help the organization leverage Internet technology such as blogs as a tool to facilitate dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students so they can better relate to stereotypes and learn how to overcome them for a better understanding of the conflict and a closer association between participants.

PhotoVoice, London, United Kingdom

PhotoVoice is dedicated to bringing attention to, raising awareness and improving the lives of some of the most marginalized groups in the world through the use of the startling images and stories they themselves have taken and created. This grant will enable them to expand an online forum to allow interactive blogging, exchange, and translation services for participants in this UK organization's worldwide program dedicated to driving positive social change for marginalized youth through photographic training so that participants can advocate, express themselves and generate income. Article on BBC: Photos bridge Arab-Israeli divide [July 9, 2007]

Asia Pacific

Room to Read, San Francisco, California

Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, and providing education to girls. This grant will fully fund a computer room to provide 500 students with much-needed training and practical skills that are marketable to employers. The aim is to provide practical skills to children so they can move beyond their economic situation and have incentive to stay in school and pursue careers after graduation. Students gain independence and confidence by learning basic computer skills, which will help break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.

The Education for Development Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand

EDF’s mission is to alleviate poverty, develop education programs and facilitate international communication in order to help disadvantaged children gain access to basic education. This grant will fund a project designed to enable rural students in the poor region of northeastern Thailand to become computer literate and self-reliant in health as well as promote leadership and pro-social behavior by prompting them to bring to their school community better health education

 

The 2007 Turn It Up Grant Recipients

These grants are for visionary nonprofit organizations that are customizing their use of Salesforce.com technology to support their ability to implement their social change mission.

United States

The Aidmatrix Foundation, Irving, Texas

Aidmatrix’s focus is to amplify donor contributions, accelerate results to nonprofits, and partner with governments to help make a bigger impact on the world, together. This grant is designed to expand the organization's use of Salesforce.com technology being used as a National Donations Management platform connecting FEMA, state offices, companies and relief organizations in times of disaster.

American Red Cross Bay Area, San Francisco, California

The American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter provides relief to those affected by disasters and empowers individuals in our community to prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. This grant provides additional resources to help the organization expand its use of Salesforce.com so it can more effectively manage external partnerships and help the Chapter realize its goal of preparing one million San Francisco Bay Area residents for disaster.

The Center for What Works, Chicago, Illinois

The Center for What Works improves social sector results through benchmarking for nonprofits, which is a strategy to facilitate outcomes measurement and reporting by linking nonprofits and funders through a common language. This grant is intended to help The Center for What Works enhance their Salesforce.com implementation to develop outcome tracking and measurement technology to benefit and standardize performance analysis among nonprofits.

Family Services Agency of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Family Services Agency’s mission is to strengthen families by providing caring, effective, and innovative social services, with special emphasis on the needs of low-income families, children, the elderly, and disabled people, thus improving the quality of life for all San Franciscans.  With this grant, they intend to develop a method for tracking outcome measures into their existing Salesforce.com customized case management system, in accordance with the regulations and reporting expectations of the State of California.

Rainforest2Reef, Tahoe City, California

Rainforest2Reef’s mission is to protect biodiversity, maintain ecosystem services, and slow climate change by safeguarding tropical forests, coral reefs and the corridors connecting the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve to the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve to the Mesoamerican Reef. This grant will enable Rainforest2Reef to integrate the organization's Salesforce.com system with PayPal to automate communications and transactions with landowners in Mexico, who have agreed to give up logging rights in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Mexico in exchange for economic assistance.

Hamilton Family Center, San Francisco, California

Hamilton Family Center’s mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Through a Housing-First approach, they provide a continuum of housing solutions and hands-on services that promote self-sufficiency for families and individuals, and foster the potential of children and youth. This grant enables them to implement a database being built by salesforce.com volunteers to measure the effectiveness of programs providing support for homeless and low-income families.

Kiva.org, San Francisco, California

This grant will help Kiva.org, the first non-profit focused on fighting global poverty by enabling socially-conscious internet users to connect and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, standardize data collection strategies from micro-finance partners utilizing Salesforce technology.

Australia

Good Deeds International (in Partnership with Queensland University of Technology), Queensland, Australia

Good Deeds International’s mission is to break the cycle of transgenerational child-trafficking practices in developing countries. This grant will further the implementation of Salesforce.com for this multi-dimensional and collaborative project as well as the institutionalization of service learning at QUT and GDI. These projects are situated in such a way that they cannot exist without CRM technology given the links, partnerships and coordination necessary between QUT, GDI, multiple local and international businesses, governments, non-profits, donors and students in order to eradicate child labor and serve as a platform to share best practice and technology with grass-roots organizations in developing countries.

Europe

YouthNet, London, United Kingdom

YouthNet aims to create a socially inclusive environment where young people living in the UK are engaged, informed and inspired to achieve their ambitions and dreams. This grant is designed to help YouthNet implement Salesforce.com to run an online knowledge-base and better serve partner organizations in their support of youth development and education.

Ashoka, Arlington, Virginia

Ashoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers. With this grant, Ashoka will expand Salesforce.com implementation in Europe. Doing so will enable them to better measure the social impact and transparency of its projects aimed at deploying system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems.