---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Microsystems Creates Nonprofit Foundation SunFLASH Vol 24 #16 December 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Foundation Awards $189,290 to Community Organizations In the San Francisco and Boston Areas MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --December 17, 1990-- Sun Microsystems today announced that it has created The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization. In one of its first actions, the foundation has awarded $189,290 in community development grants to organizations in the San Francisco and Boston areas, two regions in which Sun has major facilities. Sun created the foundation to ensure a consistent commitment to giving that is shielded from business cycles. The foundation will also contribute to charities overseas. Foundation grants, awarded quarterly, will support programs in education, job training, leadership and business enterprise in the communities in which Sun maintains its largest operations. Previously, grants were made through Sun's corporate affairs department. "Sun has enjoyed record-breaking success," said Carol Bartz, vice president of worldwide field operations at Sun and president of The Sun Microsystems Foundation. "The foundation was established as a vehicle to share the rewards of our success with the communities where we live and work worldwide. This is a long-term commitment on Sun's part." Today's awards bring total contributions from both the company and the foundation to more than $835,400 for the calendar year. The Sun Microsystems Foundation has donated a total of $102,029 to organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The recipients are: o Santa Clara University (Santa Clara), for a series of Saturday morning academic enhancement seminars to encourage under-represented youth to pursue science and engineering careers; o San Jose Conservation Corps (San Jose), for an on-going project that supports English tutoring and career counseling and development for minority at-risk youth employed by job training community service agencies; o Mid-Peninsula Access Corporation (Palo Alto), for a project that will provide video production and editing skills to minority youth as they produce a monthly community magazine show; o Second Start (Santa Clara), for a transition-to-work program aimed at learning and emotionally handicapped youth in grades 7-12; o Emergency Housing Consortium, Inc. (Santa Clara), for a program to address employment and leadership development needs of homeless families in Santa Clara County; o East Palo Alto New Perspectives (East Palo Alto), for a project aimed at stopping drug and alcohol use among middle-school students and keeping them in school; o Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service (Palo Alto), for a program to train 60 emigrant Soviet engineers in vocational English and computer skills; o Mountain View Chamber of Commerce (Mountain View), for its "shadowing" project, in which at-risk students visit companies and experience first-hand what a mentor's workday is like; o Economic & Social Opportunities, Inc. (San Jose), for technical assistance. In the greater Merrimack Valley north of Boston, Massachusetts, the foundation awarded $87,261 to: o The Thomas Jefferson Forum, Inc. (Boston), for a program designed to help high school students become active community members; o Greater Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Business Education Collaborative (Lawrence), for a prototype project to reduce the ninth-grade dropout rate at Lawrence High School; o American Training Companies, Inc. (Lawrence), for the Comprehensive Offender Employment Resource System, a multiservice provider that helps ex-offenders make the transition from incarceration to independence; o Greater Lawrence YWCA (Lawrence), for its Public Leadership Development Program; o A.B. Bruce School (Lawrence), for a career exploration program that integrates computer technology into the curriculum. 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. 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