---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SUN MICROSYSTEMS FOUNDATION AWARDS COMMUNITY GRANTS SunFLASH Vol 30 #24 June 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonprofit Groups in San Francisco, Boston Areas Receive $251,670 for Community Development MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --June 24, 1991-- The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization, announced today that it has awarded $251,670 in community development grants to organizations in the San Francisco and Boston areas, two regions in which Sun Microsystems has its largest operations. Many of the new grants will support programs in education and youth leadership development. Today's awards bring total contributions from both the company and the foundation to $1,021,440 for fiscal year 1991. The Sun Microsystems Foundation has donated a total of $153,438 to organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The recipients are: Youth Community Service ($28,000), Palo Alto, Calif., for a multi-agency cooperative youth leadership and community service program that serves junior and high school students in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto; Mid-Peninsula YWCA ($36,000), Palo Alto, Calif., to continue the Women Entrepreneurs project, which features courses, mentoring, information and referral services, one-on-one support, and a start-up loan fund to enable under- and unemployed women to start and maintain their own businesses; San Jose Development Corporation ($20,000), San Jose, Calif., for a small business loan program that will provide technical support and loan packages to minority and women-owned businesses in Santa Clara County; Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Inc. ($7,000), Union City, Calif., for two school-based career awareness programs that will serve 30 Filipina girls and their parents at Alvarado Middle School; Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center ($20,000), San Mateo, Calif., to fund the East Palo Alto Community Medication Program in East Palo Alto; Sequoia Union High School District ($27,750), Redwood City, Calif., for a program designed to stimulate parent involvement and improve academic performance among underachieving African-American and Hispanic ninth and tenth graders; The Challenge Learning Center ($14,688), Mountain View, Calif., for a program to train students to perform leadership training for youths at risk of dropping out of school; In the greater Merrimack Valley north of Boston, Massachusetts, the foundation awarded $98,232 to: Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Lawrence ($11,778), Lawrence, Mass., for a program that trains and supervises teens to serve as big brothers and sisters to economically disadvantaged children; Greater Lowell YWCA ($19,983), Lowell, Mass., for an adult education project that provides classes in basic reading and math for women; Lawrence Youth Commission ($31,471), Lawrence, Mass., for a leadership development program that trains young adults to be board members of youth organizations; Middlesex Community College ($25,000), Lowell, Mass., to expand a "re-entry" program that helps students who have dropped out of high school earn a high school diploma and a college certificate; Junior Achievement of Eastern Massachusetts ($10,000), Boston, Mass., for a program designed to teach applied economics to junior and high school students through business and education partnerships; In keeping with Sun's entrepreneurial history, the foundation's grants focus on four specific community development areas: education, job training, leadership development and business enterprise. Organizations interested in receiving grants from the foundation submit proposals that are screened by a team of Sun employees. This team includes both management and non-management staff. Recommendations for funding are then submitted to the foundation for consideration. Currently, the foundation awards grants to organizations in the areas where Sun has its major facilities the south San Francisco Bay Area and the Merrimack Valley north of Boston. The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., was formed in December 1990 by Sun Microsystems as a vehicle to share the company's success with and support the economic development of the communities where Sun employees live and work worldwide. In addition to community grants, the foundation's activities include the Employee Matching Gifts Program. Since January 1990, the company and the foundation have matched $148,965 in employee donations to qualified nonprofit organizations. 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