---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Microsystems Foundation Makes New Community Grants SunFLASH Vol 36 #11 December 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash mailing list includes all of the formal press release from Sun Microsystems. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonprofit Groups Receive $315,800 for Community Development MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --December 16, 1991-- The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization, announced today that it has awarded more than $315,800 in community development grants to organizations in the San Francisco and Boston areas, the two regions in which Sun Microsystems has its largest operations, as well as to groups in the United Kingdom and North Carolina. Many of the new grants will support programs in education and youth leadership development. Today's awards bring contributions from both Sun and the foundation to more than $2 million since the grants program was established in April 1990. In the United Kingdom, the Sun Microsystems Foundation has awarded 10,650 pounds sterling (approximately $18,300 in U.S. dollars) to the Foundation for Community Leadership Development, Edinburgh, Scotland, for a program to help develop community leaders in low-income neighborhoods in the West Lothian District near Linlithgow. Sun has a major manufacturing facility in Linlithgow. The foundation also awarded $1,500 to Wake County Public School Systems, Raleigh, North Carolina, to fund a teacher's aide position at A Growing Place, a school for homeless children. Sun has a site in nearby Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where Sun's headquarters are located, the foundation has donated more than $192,000 to community organizations. The recipients are: Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula ($34,320), Menlo Park, Calif., for the Key Council, a leadership program that gives high school students from Menlo Park, East Palo Alto and Redwood City an opportunity to run the club; Community Development Institute ($14,850), East Palo Alto, Calif., for a program to teach leadership skills to junior high and high school students who are members of CDI's Leadership Training Academy; The Community Foundation of Santa Clara County ($15,000), San Jose, Calif., for a neighborhood development program aimed at four low-income areas in Santa Clara County; The Center for Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement ($28,765), San Jose, Calif., for the Amerasian Project, which provides vocational English, basic math skills, employment services and social support activities to Southeast Asian refugees; Herbert Hoover Middle School ($30,000), San Jose, Calif., for "Passport to High School," an early identification and intervention program for at-risk seventh and eighth graders; Junior Achievement of the Bay Area, Inc. ($10,000), South San Francisco, Calif., for the "Economics of Staying in School" program, which is designed to show junior high school students the value of completing their education; Santa Clara University, San Jose, Calif. ($9,640), for the Academic Enhancement Seminars program, which introduces science and engineering topics to minority students; Opportunities Industrialization Center West ($49,973), Menlo Park, Calif., for the Industry Specific Training Program, a job training initiative that culminates in a 60-day internship program at several local companies. In the greater Merrimack Valley north of Boston, Massachusetts, the foundation awarded more than $103,000 to: The American Training Companies ($15,000), Lawrence, Mass., for a program that helps ex-offenders make the transition from incarceration to independence through services such as pre-employment training, career counseling and resume preparation; Bradford College ($8,105), Haverhill, Mass., for a series of math and science programs for seventh and eighth graders at the John R. Kane School in Lawrence; Family Service Association of Greater Lawrence ($15,000), Lawrence, for a college course and support seminar for minority workers who are currently employed in human services; Milton Academy ($30,000), Milton, Mass., to fund minority high school seniors selected to attend the Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program; YWCA of Greater Lawrence ($35,000), Lawrence, for program to keep at-risk, economically disadvantaged teenage girls in school and encourage them to pursue higher education. 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 primarily to organizations in the areas where Sun has its major facilities: the south San Francisco Bay Area, the Merrimack Valley north of Boston and the United Kingdom. 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. Corporate Affairs Contact: Jennifer Sims (415) 336-5617 Press Contact: Cindi Gentry (415) 336-0571 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. 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