2004 Small Grants Program Recipients
Baykids Bedside Editing Expansion (San Francisco, CA)
Baykids Bedside Editing program will be expanding to the third BayKids children's hospital: LPCH. Their vision is to inspire more hospitalized children and their families to benefit from the Moviemakers and Bedside Editing program.
CANVAS, (Japan)
CANVAS is a non profit organization that helps children develop their potential and creates opportunities through technology. The grant CANVAS received will be used for children’s documentary video making, during CANVAS’s digital workshop. Children will familiarize themselves with all aspects of documentary filmmaking, from planning to filming and editing. CANVAS is also our volunteers’ recipient of Tokyo University Summer Camp 2003.
Downtown Community Television Center DCTV (New York, NY)
DCTV kindly received funds for videos from the Intermediate level of their Professional Television Training Program (Pro-TV), which gives "at-risk" youth the instruction and training to make broadcast-quality documentaries about their lives and communities.
East Atlanta Kids Club - East Atlanta Kids Digital Documentary (Atlanta, GA)
East Atlanta Kids Club continues their work combining photographic images, text and graphics, including written and oral histories, to document the people and places in the community that are of special interest and meaning to the children in our program. Work in progress to create a documentary and interviews of residents of their community.
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy - Digital Story Telling Project (San Francisco, CA)
The project brings young and old together to reflect on the impacts that natural and urban environments have had on their lives. Participants explore the park and interview one another about their shared and separate experiences and vision for the future. Salesforce.com employees will be volunteering one day during the program to work on some trails.
Keep-It-Together (KIT)/Community Source Network (CSN) - Bay Area Youth TV (San Francisco, CA)
A community youth television show, produced in the field and in the studio, focusing on youth culture and issues. Working with the Mission's Invisible Fire Movement, the project will culminate in a 60 minute television pilot about Hip Hop. Salesforce.com employees are consultants on the project and meet with the students on a regular basis.
KIDS, (Knowing Is Doing Something) (Japan)
KIDS will use this grant to make a documentary film of the daily life in an orphanage in Japan. Japanese orphanages are largely secluded and receive little attention from mainstream society. Through this project, a junior-high school girl will make a documentary to tell outside people about the daily lives of children, staff, and volunteers in the orphanage where she's been living.
KiJu - Kinder-und Jugendfreizeitclub English Media Camp (Brandenburg, Germany)
KiJu's goal is to organize an English language camp where 40 students aged 12 will spend three days learning and practising their English in a relaxed atmosphere. Students will also make a film about the camp, themselves, their homes and families. EMEA salesforce.com employees will participate in the camp and volunteer their English expertise.
Little Kids Rock - Little Kids Rock Video (San Francisco, CA)
Little Kids Rock students compose their own pop tunes. This grant would enable them to capitalize on this programmatic strength. Videos of these songs take the works to a whole new level. The end product will raise their profile and could be used to generate revenue.
Mercy Housing California Digital Explorers (San Francisco, CA)
Mercy Housing's goal is to provide access and training in digital multimedia to at-risk youth in two high-crime neighborhoods in two of Mercy's affordable family housing developments so that they can visually articulate and render the stories of their respective communities.
Mouth That Roars Digital Video in Egypt (London, UK and Egypt)
Mouth That Roars is organisation based in the UK, dedicated to giving media access to marginalised young people. They are making a film taking a couple of young people from the UK to Egypt where they trained a group of Bedouin children to make a film. The film is an exploration of what their lives are like, hopes, fears for the future and also how the UK young people will make a piece about their lives to share with the Bedouin young people.
Sports 4 Success - Sports 4 Success Website (Ireland)
Sport 4 Success is an after school educational programme. The grant vision is for a new project in development called PALS magazine which will be an interactive, multi-purpose magazine online to launch the new cross border initiative of Sport 4 Success.
Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center School Bussing Documentary (San Francisco, CA)
The vision of this grant is to document the stories of several A.P. Giannini Middle School students who experience the San Francisco Unified School District's policy on busing and desegregation firsthand.
TILT After School Program Assistance (San Francisco, CA)
To offer subsidized 12-week video production workshops to 4 after-school programs that can not otherwise afford a video class. Each class will work with a TILT teacher to produce short videos to be determined by the interests of the youth participants.
WISH - Womens Integrated Services Harrow - Girls Xpress Self Harmers Journeys to Self Healing (London, UK)
This grant will enable a group of self harming girls to explore creative means of self expression and document their journeys.
YouthSounds INERTIA (Oakland, CA)
INERTIA is a dance and film collaboration that illustrates how the young mind is engaged. A teachers lecture, music, movement and innovative camera work combine to re-imagine what happens in classrooms through the eyes of youth.
Organizations who received donated equipment from salesforcecom:
Providence Foundation- 5 computers
Eastmont Computer Center - 10 computers
