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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
       Sun Microsystems Foundation Awards Community Grants
   
SunFLASH Vol 27 #18					          March 1991 
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      $323,641 Awarded in Support of Community Development

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 25, 1990-- The Sun Microsystems
Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization, announced today
that it has awarded $323,641 in community development grants to
organizations in the San Francisco and Boston areas, two regions in
which Sun Microsystems has its largest operations. The grants will
support programs in education, job training, leadership and business
enterprise.  Today's awards bring total contributions from both the
company and the foundation to more than $1,159,000 since April 1990.

The Sun Microsystems Foundation has donated a total of $130,372 to
organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The recipients are:

* Haas Center for Public Service (Stanford University), to fund Upward
Bound, which provides support services to low-income minority high
school students to prepare them for admission to post-secondary
educational programs;

* Cogswell Polytechnical College (Cupertino, Calif.), to send
low-income junior high school students to a summer camp for young
entrepreneurs and inventors;

* Catholic Charities (Santa Clara, Calif.), to provide a full-time job
developer for mentally ill adults;

* Center for Employment Training (San Jose), to fund a job development
and placement counselor for women in the center's Child Development
vocational training program;

* Occupational Training Institute/GAIN (Foothill and DeAnza Colleges,
Cupertino), for a program to help recipients of Aid for Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC) acquire and develop vocational skills;

* New Ways to Work (San Francisco and East Palo Alto, Calif.), to
extend a successful job training and development program that expands
the number of part-time jobs available to "at-risk" youth;

* San Jose Area Youth at Risk (San Jose), for the evaluation of a
program designed to reduce drop-out rates and improve school
performance among "at-risk" high school students.

In the greater Merrimack Valley north of Boston, Massachusetts, the
foundation awarded $193,269 to:

* Family Service Association of Greater Lawrence (Lawrence, Mass.), for
a program that teaches self esteem, decision-making and leadership
skills to seventh- and eighth-grade students, who then implement
similar activities with third graders;

* Lawrence Public Schools (Lawrence), for a six-week summer program for
students at risk of being retained in the eighth grade;

* Career Beginnings, Heller School Center for Corporate and Education
Initiatives, Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.), for a program to
provides career and educational opportunities to pregnant teenagers and
teenage parents, with Sun employees as mentors;

* Lawrence Youth Commission (Lawrence, Mass.), for a leadership and
team development program for Hispanics;

* Community Action, Inc. (Haverhill, Mass.), for a resource center that
provides higher education information and referral services to
economically disadvantaged area residents;

* Coalition for a Better Acre (Lowell, Mass.), for the HELP (Hispanic
Empowerment and Leadership Project) initiative;

* Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.), for a program in which teachers
and students teach, mentor and tutor "at-risk" seventh and eighth
graders in Lawrence, Mass.

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.

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
$107,203 in employee donations to qualified nonprofit organizations.

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