Founding & Transformational Supporters

Photo at left: Project H.E.L.P. Founder/Director Mike Goltzer, Sunnyvale Middle School Principal and Project H.E.L.P. Board Member Emeritus Frances Dampier, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell recognize Applied Signal Technology representative Ginny Convoy for Applied Signal Technology's support of Project H.E.L.P.

 

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AMD

AMD is Project H.E.L.P.’s leading corporate sponsor.  A founding supporter of Project H.E.L.P., AMD has provided charitable contributions to the program since 1991 and has supported the evolution of the basic program, including targeted funding for the school-based Literacy and Math Centers.  Former AMD employee, Dr. Mike Hill, now working at Spansion, has served on the Project H.E.L.P. board for more than a dozen years, including several years as board president.

Air Systems Foundation

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Applied Materials

Applied Materials has supported student learning in Sunnyvale since 1991, when it became a significant and founding contributor to Project H.E.L.P.  Between 1999 and 2002, Applied Materials provided significant funding to expand
Project H.E.L.P. in the city of Sunnyvale.  More recently, Applied Materials became a founding supporter of Project H.E.L.P.’s Early Kindergarten Program.

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Atari

Applied Signal Technology

Applied Signal Technology is a founding supporter of Project H.E.L.P.  Recently the company helped local students by supporting Project H.E.L.P.’s school-based Literacy and Math Centers, which enable students to get the most personalized and prescriptive intervention services possible.

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems has served Sunnyvale students by being the leading supporter of the Project H.E.L.P. school-based math center, as well as a supporter of
Project H.E.L.P.’s early academic intervention program.  In addition, Cisco employees volunteer with Project H.E.L.P., working with students to provide the extra attention and instruction they need to succeed.

Students who have not had the advantage of preschool, especially second language learners, may begin their first public school experience in the summer preceding their Kindergarten year by enrolling in the Project H.E.L.P. Early Kindergarten Program. 

Through this program, first-time students learn about the structure and expectations of school, start building relationships with their teacher and get a jump on academic skill building.  The agency is able to intervene with needy students at the earliest possible point, working to prepare them for success.

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Citibank

Citibank was not only a founding supporter of Project H.E.L.P. - but with its remarkable $25,000 donation to a pilot program with no track record, qualified itself as the "KEY" founding supporter, as without this significant degree of funding and affirmation, Project H.E.L.P. may have never even gotten off the ground.  Citibank was, and is, a banking institution which truly believes in the critical role our public schools must play to sustain and build upon the economic  vitality of our state and our country.
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Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation

The Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation’s mission is to help maximize children’s potential, so the Foundation has supported Project H.E.L.P. in a number of ways since early 2004.  In addition to providing significant financial support for both the program and the agency’s organizational effectiveness, the Fox Family Foundation also provided consulting expertise in the form of an “executive on loan” to assist the agency in developing its strategic plan.  The Foundation also produced a short multi-media video about Project H.E.L.P. to give the agency a portable and quick way to educate people about the program.  Click here to view the Fox Foundation’s video on Project H.E.L.P.

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Intel

Lockheed-Martin

Lockheed-Martin has supported Sunnyvale school children for decades beginning with its founding grant to Project H.E.L.P. in 1991.  The company has consistently supported Project H.E.L.P.’s early academic intervention program, including the implementation of its school-based Literacy and Math Centers.

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McAfee

Since 2003 McAfee has provided critical and founding sponsorship for the
Project H.E.L.P. school-based Literacy and Math Centers, support for the evolution of the basic program, and significant employee volunteer hours devoted to personalized and one-on-one instruction in Project H.E.L.P. classrooms.  For more information on McAfee, click on the newsletter article.

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Memorex Technologies

National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor is a founding sponsor of Project H.E.L.P., supporting the program since its inception in the early 1990s.  The company has supported both the general evolution of the program and the development of the school-based Literacy and Math Centers.  National has also advocated successfully on behalf of Project H.E.L.P., introducing elected officials such as California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell to the agency.

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Roberts Foundation

Rotary Club of Sunnyvale

By selecting Project H.E.L.P. as the beneficiary of its fourth annual golf tournament, the Rotary Club of Sunnyvale not only helped Project H.E.L.P. make valuable links in the community, it also raised significant financial support to enable Project H.E.L.P. to enhance the education of local students.  For more information on the Rotary Club of Sunnyvale, read the newsletter article.

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Santa Clara School District

Silver Giving Foundation

The Silver Giving Foundation is Project H.E.L.P.’s biggest financial supporter, having provided significant, continuing support for Project H.E.L.P.’s comprehensive academic intervention program, as well as for Project H.E.L.P.’s school-based Literacy and Math Centers.

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Spansion

Spansion has supported Project H.E.L.P.'s efforts to ensure that all children succeed with financial contributions as well as through its premiere sponsorship of the 2006 Sunnyvale Rotary Golf Tournament, which provided both financial assistance and enhanced community awareness to Project H.E.L.P., supporting the Project H.E.L.P. math center at Bishop School and positioning the agency to serve more local children in years to come.  Longtime Project H.E.L.P. board member and former Board President Dr. Mike Hill is Director of Learning and Organizational Development at Spansion.

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Starbucks

Starbucks has generously supported Project H.E.L.P.’s work with local students through two significant grants from its Bay Area Grants for Giving program.  Starbucks enabled Project H.E.L.P. to expand its academic intervention services to Bowers Elementary School in Santa Clara, where the agency successfully assisted the school in getting out of its “improvement” category — a negative designation under the federal “No Child Left Behind” legislation.  Starbucks’ support also provided for the first implementation of Project H.E.L.P.’s school-based Literacy Center.

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Sunnyvale Lumber Company

Sunnyvale Lumber was Project H.E.L.P.’s first corporate donor.  Bob Roberts, the former president of Sunnyvale Lumber and former member of the Sunnyvale School District Board of Education, believed in Project H.E.L.P. from the start and served on the Project H.E.L.P. Board of Directors for more than a decade.

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Sunnyvale School District

Although it is an independent nonprofit agency, Project H.E.L.P. works in partnership with school districts to ensure that all students achieve their full academic potential.   The support of the Sunnyvale School District has been critical in Project H.E.L.P.’s evolution toward systemic intervention of academic intervention.  In addition to allocating district funds to the program to create an academic safety net for the district, the Sunnyvale School District and individual schools within the district have supported Project H.E.L.P. by providing office space, allocating after-school program funds as well as school site funds, and providing facilities for the school-based Math Center.

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Sunnyvale Schools Foundation

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Symantec

Symantec has provided significant support for Sunnyvale students by funding both the basic Project H.E.L.P. program for early academic intervention as well as the school-based Math Center at Bishop Elementary School.

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Tyco Electronics