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To support the production of Disconnect, a play by Anupama Chandrasekhar, set in a contemporary Indian call center, highlighting the connections and disconnections between economies and people on opposite sides of the world
To help launch a new vision for Silicon Valley by supporting development of a focused plan aimed at making downtown San Jose a more viable, fun and pedestrian-friendly place
To create a new sense of place in Silicon Valley by supporting an initiative that uses the lens of creativity to bring the future into focus and inspire physical and cultural improvements
To provide both referral and intensive case management/mental health intervention services for up to 280 low-income families with children 0-5 years residing in the Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose
To seed a change from individual to collaborative activity by funding the ALF Network Development Fund and co-creating the Common Good Collaborative
To create a detailed business plan centered on the concept that creativity, both technological and artistic, is the once and future life force of Silicon Valley, and should be the basis for a coalescence of private and public decision-making
To expand the "Arts4School" program already in place in East Palo Alto's Costaño Elementary School and to replicate it in east San Jose's Lyndale Elementary School
For 45 ballet school scholarships for underserved students
To implement Benevolent.net's program in Charlotte, Detroit and San Jose to enable citizens to engage with each other by supporting one-time challenges that their neighbors confront through an online platform
To make C.E.O. Women's economic opportunity program available to immigrant and refugee women of San Jose and eventually to other communities
To support the National Community Tax Coalition in providing intensive technical assistance and cross-community learning opportunities to organizations running Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)/Prosperity Campaigns in up to 10 Knight communities
To connect unlicensed child care providers and disenfranchised families to child development resources using community-based resources and culturally-based approaches