linkedin for good announces this year's employee transformation grant winners
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LinkedIn for Good awards 15 employees annually with $3,000 USD grants to support their efforts to transform self, company or world. This year's grant winners come with astounding talent, personal passion and hunger to change the world around them. We're thrilled to share with you what tremendous ideas they'll be taking on this year.TRANSCRIPT
LinkedIn for Good Announces its 2014Employee Transformation Grant Winners
LinkedIn for Good Employee Transformation Grants:
(n.) 15 annual grants awarded to LinkedIn employees to support their efforts to transform themselves, LinkedIn or the world.
Bringing holistic medicine to her mother so she can replace pain with a more peaceful life
C L I O N A M O U LT O N
Completing her training to become a yoga ambassador and create her own healthy living initiative
J A N E F E I G H E R Y
Filling backpacks with supplies and necessities for homeless and foster teens in NYC
K I M B E R LY R I C K A R D S
Fulfilling a lifelong dream by competing in the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Ireland
L I Z A N N E B A R N WA L L
Bringing opportunity and resources to a village in Cambodia
D AV I D W O O D WA R D
Giving her children the gift of family by uniting them with their grandfather
M A R C E L L A Z O U C H A
Furnishing a shelter for disabled orphans in rural PeruM A R I A C E S P E D E S
Visiting her adopted goddaughter in El Salvador to celebrate important milestones in her life
M C K I N Z I E K A N D E L
Bringing computer skills and online literacy to orphans in Zambia
MICH A E L NO O NE
Creating an English book club and literacy initiative for the Baan Kamala School in Thailand
VA U G H N G RAY
Changing the perspectives of students in Tongo with textbooks and reading skills
F E L I X AY I K A
Contributing towards her cousin Emily’s PhDC I A R A F O G E R T Y
Rebuilding a house for a family and their two children in Bangalore
P R O M E E T M A N S ATA
Creating a program to provide comfort to parents who have deceased children in China
C O N G N I
Helping his one month old son get treatment for a bilateral cleft lip
H A R I M A N G A L AT H V E E D U
Learn more at linkedin.com/lifg