2005 Small Grants Program Recipients

Media Grants

These grants were awarded to organizations who are working with youth and using the power of media to express themselves.

Baykids—Bedside Editing Expansion,  San Francisco, California
An organization that works with hospitalized youth in critical care and recovery wards of hospitals. This grant will help BayKids to tap into local talent from kids who are facing very challenging situations and help get their voices heard on the internal hospital channel and beyond.

The Bronx Lab School, New York, New York
A school, which opened in Fall 2004, and is funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Through video and still photographs, this grant will help students create a documentary about teenage pregnancy in the context of family and personal experience. The project will educate the community and encourage students to think critically about an important social issue.

CANVAS Tokyo, Japan
A summer camp program for junior high school and high school students. This grant will fund a songwriting contest on the web where students from around the world will create songs collaboratively with their peers.

Children’s Express, Tokyo, Japan
Children's Express is a youth media organization producing films and documentaries by young people. This grant will enable them to produce more excellent videos available for streaming on the Children’s Express website.

City of Dublin YMCA, Dublin, Ireland 
The YMCA has a long-established program enabling homeless young people to re-enter mainstream education and employment, through offering wide-ranging support; everything from a good free meal, to exercise in the gym, to washing facilities, right up to vocational qualifications and employment within YMCA facilities. This grant will enable the youth within the YMCA’s educational programs to participate in full learning for the educational and professional qualifications being offered by the YMCA homeless project. This is an SFDC employee-initiated project

Galfalva School, Transylvania
The school of the village Vamosgalfalva is a public institution with eight grades for both Romanian and Hungarian students. The school is a non-profit educational institution. Transylvania is a severely underdeveloped area. This grant will fund a project where young people will look at how everyday life for the people in this part of the world has changed since the fall of the Caecescu government.

Inspire Foundation, Rozelle, Australia
The Inspire Foundation helps youth navigate through difficult issues like suicide and mental illness through community engagement. This grant will fund equipment and training for young people and youth workers, in order to produce a short film that will be shown at screenings across Australia.

KIDS, Tokyo, Japan
KIDS is an organization that empowers physically and mentally disabled youth as well as socio-economically underprivileged children. This grant will fund a documentary on the everyday life of a 13 year old boy in a Japanese orphanage.

KiJu (Kinder-und Jugendfreizeitclub),  Brandenburg, Germany
This after-school club offers more than 50 children a place to learn, play sports, socialize and be creative. This grant will be used to create a documentary film about young mothers. The goal is to help underage single mothers to better manage their new and occasionally conflicting roles as mother, daughter and student. The project will bring together 6-8 young mothers who will view their lives through the camera.

Little Kids Rock, San Francisco, California
LKR inspires children to express themselves through music, building the creativity, confidence, and self-esteem that are critical to success in school and beyond. This grant will be used to create two original rock videos by elementary aged school children.

Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York, New York
MNN is responsible for administering the Public Access cable television services in Manhattan. This grant will help to produce a 20 minute documentary video exploring the life of a young Muslim women in New York. This project will be a vivid exploration race, racism, religion, and religious intolerance in post 9/11 America.

Mercy Housing California, San Francisco, California
Mercy Housing California provides access and training in digital media to at-risk youth in two high-crime neighborhoods in two of Mercy’s affordable housing developments. This grant will help with implementing a health and wellness program that will educate their youth about nutrition and exercise using interdisciplinary tools.

Minsai Center, Tokyo, Japan
A Tokyo-based international non-governmental organization (NGO), providing the Darunee Scholarship to children from Thailand and Laos. This grant will help support financially and technically two rural schools in northern Thailand.

Mouth That Roars, Morocco and London, UK
Mouth That Roars is a film production company that works with and trains young people in TV/video production. We believe that young people should have access to media and that those who are misrepresented within society have a space to be heard and a medium in which they can voice their thoughts and feelings. This grant will help to fund, Our Everyday Lives, a second film on North Africa that follows on from Our Everyday Lives Egypt. These films will form part of an educational package that explores the everyday lives of young people and aims to raise awareness and give insight to other young people’s lives that live outside of western life..

Reel Life Movie Camp, San Rafael, California
Reel Life Movie Camp works with underserved youth populations to create original media. This grant will fund a documentary by Native American youth about living on a reservation.

RollingSound Foundation, London, United Kingdom
This project will produce a five minute music video, to compliment a song that young people have already written in a project at the Chelsea Youth Club. It will be an ‘urban’ music video – something that the young people have really wanted since they recorded the song, as the song is being played in clubs around London already. We also aim to make a 5 min documentary about the reality of gun crime in the UK.

Santa Cara University / The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,  Santa Clara, California
A preeminent centers for research and dialogue on ethical issues in critical areas of American life. The center works with faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and the public to address ethical issues more effectively in teaching, research, and action. This grant will fund The Transitions Video Project which promotes self awareness, creative expression and pro-social skills among youth who are facing the challenge of navigating the Santa Clara County Children's Shelter and foster care system.

St. Martin's Girls School, Kilbagare, Kenya
Kibagare is a slum area outside Nairobi, suffering poverty and its effects but also the site of St.Martin's School, which receives both national and international support and provides girls from the slums with an excellent free education and, for some of them, a home. This grant will be focused on the schools media club which teaches filming and editing skills to the students.

TakingITGlobal, Toronto, Canada
An international organization - led by youth and enabled by technology. TIG connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action to improve their local and global communities. TIG will solicit work by young media artists on the impact of violence in their lives. To ensure the inclusion of young artists from underserved/underrepresented communities, TIG will provide digital cameras to its partnering grassroots local organizations in 10 countries, and will select submissions from a broad range of cultures and perspectives.

Tutu’s House / Friend’s of the Future,  Kona, Hawaii
A community organization built by the community around holistic view of the Hawaii culture and community. This grant will help to create traveling performance art troupes that will perform in rural communities in North Hawaii. The performances will combine music, poetry, acting, dance/movement and video art to tell stories and raise consciousness about issues affecting youth in North Hawaii.

Two-Year Mission Support Grant

Chrissy Field of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, San Francisco, California
The Crissy Field Center provides a wide variety of educational programming and other park-based learning opportunities for the people of the Bay Area and visitors. The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy proposes to use a $20,000 two-year grant from Salesforce.com to increase the Crissy Field Center’s use of technology to better engage and serve Bay Area youth through it’s wide array of successful programs. By employing the expertise of Salesforce.com, Crissy Field Center will explore and incorporate new