Our grantees from 2004 represent youth development organizations around the world. This year we funded projects that gave youth an outlet for expression. Many of them created original videos or media that were shown during our International Youth Media Festival in San Francisco in the fall.

United States

Baykids—Bedside Editing Expansion, San Francisco, California
For the third year in a row, Baykids received a grant to support their programs for youth who spend extended time in the hospital for treatments or serious illness.  Baykids Bedside Editing program will be expanding to the third BayKids children's hospital: LPCH. Their vision is to inspire more hospitalized children and their families to benefit from the Moviemakers and Bedside Editing program.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), New York, New York
DCTV kindly received funds for videos from the Intermediate level of their Professional Television Training Program (Pro-TV), which gives "at-risk" youth the instruction and training to make broadcast-quality documentaries about their lives and communities.

East Atlanta Kids Club—East Atlanta Kids Digital Documentary, Atlanta, Georgia
East Atlanta Kids Club is a nonprofit, out-of-school -time mentoring and enrichment program for under-resourced girls and boys ages 7 to 17. The Club continues their work combining photographic images, text and graphics, including written and oral histories, to document the people and places in the community that are of special interest and meaning to the children in our program. This grant will support the creation of a documentary and interviews of residents of their community.

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy—Digital Story Telling Project, San Francisco, California
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is the nonprofit partner that supports and assists the Golden Gate National Parks in research, interpretation, and conservation programs. The grant funds a project which brings young and old together to reflect on the impacts that natural and urban environments have had on their lives. Participants explore the park and interview one another about their shared and separate experiences and vision for the future. Salesforce.com employees will be volunteering one day during the program to work on some trails.

Keep-It-Together (KIT)/Community Source Network (CSN)—Bay Area Youth TV, San Francisco, California
KIT is a community youth television show, produced in the field and in the studio, focusing on youth culture and issues. Working with the Mission's Invisible Fire Movement, the project will culminate in a 60 minute television pilot about Hip Hop. Salesforce.com employees are consultants on the project and meet with the students on a regular basis.

Little Kids Rock—Little Kids Rock Video, San Francisco, California
Little Kids Rock believes that learning to play a musical instrument can be a transformative experience in students’ lives, with the power to inspire the creativity and confidence that are critical to success in school and beyond.This grant would enable them to capitalize on this programmatic strength. Videos of these songs take the works to a whole new level. The end product will raise their profile and could be used to generate revenue

Mercy Housing California—Digital Explorers, San Francisco, California
Mercy Housing's goal is to provide access and training in digital multimedia to at-risk youth in two high-crime neighborhoods in two of Mercy's affordable family housing developments so that they can visually articulate and render the stories of their respective communities.

Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center—School Bussing Documentary, San Francisco, California
The Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center provides supports and opportunities to ensure the healthy development of children, youth, and adults in the Sunset community. The vision of this grant is to document the stories of several A.P. Giannini Middle School students who experience the San Francisco Unified School District's policy on busing and desegregation firsthand.

TILT—After School Program Assistance, San Francisco, California
TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) works within schools and community-based programs to teach young people the fundamentals of moviemaking and media literacy through hands-on training in video production. This grant is supporting  subsidized 12-week video production workshops to 4 after-school programs that can not otherwise afford a video class. Each class will work with a TILT teacher to produce short videos to be determined by the interests of the youth participants.

YouthSounds—INERTIA  Oakland, California
INERTIA is a dance and film collaboration that illustrates how the young mind is engaged. A teachers lecture, music, movement and innovative camera work combine to re-imagine what happens in classrooms through the eyes of youth.

International

CANVAS, Tokyo, Japan
CANVAS is a nonprofit organization that helps children develop their potential and creates opportunities through technology. The grant CANVAS received will be used for children’s documentary video making, during CANVAS’s digital workshop. Children will familiarize themselves with all aspects of documentary filmmaking, from planning to filming and editing. CANVAS is also our volunteers’ recipient of Tokyo University Summer Camp 2003.

KIDS (Knowing Is Doing Something), Tokyo, Japan
KIDS will use this grant to make a documentary film of the daily life in an orphanage in Japan. Japanese orphanages are largely secluded and receive little attention from mainstream society. Through this project, a junior-high school girl will make a documentary to tell outside people about the daily lives of children, staff, and volunteers in the orphanage where she's been living.

KiJu - Kinder-und Jugendfreizeitclub—English Media Camp, Brandenburg, Germany
KiJu's goal is to organize an English language camp where 40 students aged 12 will spend three days learning and practicing their English in a relaxed atmosphere. Students will also make a film about the camp, themselves, their homes and families. EMEA salesforce.com employees will participate in the camp and volunteer their English expertise.

Mouth That Roars—Digital Video in Egypt, London, UK and Egypt
Mouth That Roars is an organization based in the UK, dedicated to giving media access to marginalized young people. They are making a film taking a couple of young people from the UK to Egypt where they trained a group of Bedouin children to make a film. The film is an exploration of what their lives are like, hopes, fears for the future and also how the UK young people will make a piece about their lives to share with the Bedouin young people.

Sports 4 Success—Sports 4 Success Website, Dublin, Ireland
Sport 4 Success is an after school educational programme. The grant vision is for a new project in development called PALS magazine which will be an interactive, multi-purpose magazine online to launch the new cross border initiative of Sport 4 Success.

Women’s Integrated Services Harrow (WISH)—Girls Xpress Self Harmers Journeys to Self Healing, London, United Kingdom
The WISH Centre provides support and opportunities for women, youth and children who are survivors of abuse, violence and neglect and for young self harmers. WISH is a community of creative innovators responding to real needs, developing new ways of working and making social change happen. This grant will enable a group of self harming girls to explore creative means of self expression and document their journeys.