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EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANTSR O U N D 1 , 2 0 1 5
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EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANTS HELP LINKEDIN EMPLOYEES ACT ON THEIR IDEAS TO TRANSFORM THEIR FAMILIES, THEIR COMMUNITIES, OR THEIR WORLD.
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WE’RE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THE 18 EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT SELECTIONS FOR ROUND 1, 2015…
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John Rathna KumarBangalore, India
John will be using this grant to-wards
surgeries for his son’s cleft lip, so that he can have a
normal and positive experience in life.
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Stanford RosenthalMountain View, USA
Stanford is partnering with SF organizations to provide the street community with portable phone
chargers.
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Charu SharmaSan Francisco, USA
Charu has brought together the most successful female entrepreneurs in her documentary film “Going Against
the Flow”and her goal is to empower 1 million women by the end
of 2016 to take the plunge at get their business off the ground.
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Regina LinSunnyvale, USA
Regina is creating a comprehensive cur-riculum in English and Burmese to teach Burmese students, as well as, to provide new uni-formand sleeping mats for the young girls.
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Radha ShreeniwasBangalore, India
Radha is redesigning Bangalore’s solution to the growing issue of waste disposal –
she is educating residents about smarter ways of
managing their waste.
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Lachelle RankinsOmaha, USA
Lachelle is working on helping build
homes for families and for the larger
community as a whole.
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Lindsey JessenOmaha, USA
Lindsey will be traveling to Ar-gentina to finish building a house
with Habitat For Humanity.
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Vijetha ArchibaldBangalore, India
Vijetha will be helping save a life of a person in a family – the main bread earner. He has been diagnosed
with Chronic Renal Insufficiency (Kidney Failure) and has no proper resources to get treatment done.
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Leonardo GarzonSao Paolo, Brazil
Leonardo will be helping TPP build a com-munity where everyone can passionately
pursue their own interests in the fields of arts and edu-
cation.
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Arif Khan & Ibrahim Musa
Singapore
Arif and Ibrahim are working on “Eat-an-Idea,” a
not-for-profit platform to facilitate the ex-change
of ideas over a meal with another person from a
different background, creed, race, income level or lifestyle.
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Michela is working on providing free mammograms, wigs, prosthetic devices and
other services to women who are either uninsured or whose insurance does not cover
such support.
Michela BonadonnaChicago, USA
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Diogo Oliveira MarraSao Paolo, Brazil
Diogo is working to treat or mitigate Autism, Asperger and other social im-
pairment conditions through Role Playing Games
and programs.
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Shaliza KassamChicago, USA
Shaliza is helping a young professional, Karim, who was abandoned by his fam-ily, achieve his dream of attaining his
GED, becoming a police officer, and impacting the world.
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Elizabeth DiCiurcioChicago, USA
Elizabeth is creating a mentor ring to provide support, encouragement, advice and inspira-tion for single mothers in college; one member will re-ceive a scholarship in pursuit of higher ed.
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Logu Venkatachalam
Sunnyvale, USA
Logu is launching “I Speak English” – a program to help rural Indian students
develop conversational skills in English.
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Stewart LeeSingapore
On behalf of Stewart and the LSS leadership team, this grant will go into helping trans-
form a team member’s family.
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Lucia PeyrotDublin, Ireland
Lucia is working on promoting works of art from her grandfather
with her mother.
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Michael Espenschied
Chicago, USA
Michael is working on building wa-ter
resources for orphanages in Kenya.