EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANTSRound 2, 2015

Employee Idea Grants enable

employees to make an impact in

a way that inspires them, by

making their own, bright ideas

for impact come to life

Today, we're excited to announce

the 14 recipients.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

I am using my LIFG grant to

volunteer at the Teaching English

program at Hope and Home in

Nepal, in collaboration with the

International Volunteer

Headquarters (IVHQ.org).

I will be using part of my grant to

travel to Nepal for three weeks to

teach English and basic education

(Math, etc) at public schools in

Nepal that struggle to staff

permanent teachers.

I will be using a third of my grant

along with some personal matching

to contribute to long term

initiatives to make the people of

Nepal more self sufficient and

improve public school staffing.

Neeta Kamadolli

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Orangutans are like people – they

have thoughts, emotions and

personalities. And due to the

deforestation of their home, in

which the rain forests are cleared

by fire to make room for palm oil

plants, they are going extinct.

With this grant I am going to put

myself in the center of the

destruction and travel to Borneo

for three weeks to support the

Orangutan Foundation

International by building a much-

needed structure for the

organization to thrive.

Upon my return to the US, I will

share my story and inspire change

within the company by putting

together LinkedIn’s very own

World Orangutan Day on August

19th.

Victoria Guyon

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

This fund will go towards theKiganda Children For Changeproject. Together with a groupof architects I am working on

building a dormitory andworkshop for street boys whoare part of this program in thesuburbs of Kampala, Uganda.

Via this project we willprovide the boys with

housing, their livelihoods(including food, school fees,

etc.) and create anenvironment for them wherethey can have a sustainable

income stream.

Natasha Kalidin

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

My seventeen year olddaughter, Meg, has a dream to

send one million pencils toAfrica. To finance her project

she has designed a series ofpencils and for every pencilshe sells, she sends one to

Africa.

With the LIFG grant, she'llenhance her web commerce

capabilities and develop avideo to drive awareness for

her cause.

Justin Shriber

The LIFG grant will be used tohelp make an impact on these

blossoming children's lives. Theircurrent home is in need of somemajor TLC, but with a struggling

single mother the bills come first. The grant will be used to helpprovide them with an updated

home where they can beproductive and and inspired!

This grant will help transformtheir home to a home that they

can be proud of and want toreturn too each day.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Nicole Cloonan

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

I was born in Taiwan andadopted as a newborn by anAmerican couple. Last year

a LinkedIn colleagueconnected me to an

organization that doesadoption reunions, and

after 8 months of lookingthey found my birth mother.

The LIFG Grant moneyfunded a trip back to

Taiwan and on Leap Day,2016 I took a personal leap

and met her in Taipei,spending the next several

days exploring my birthcountry and getting to know

one another.

Kathy Goss

In Myanmar, with rapid growthof telecommunications

coverage, the cost of owning amobile phone with internetaccess has gone down from

$2,000 two years ago to $23.As such, most of Myanmar's 60

million people areexperiencing the internet for

the first time through portabledevices. However, digital

literacy has been the barrierto fully utilize the technology.

I would like to organizeworkshops to teach skills such

as using search engines,staying connected to global

news, etc. for igniting thelearning curiosity and

advancing the knowledge.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Yamin Htun

Our local village school inIndia has around 610

students.

Using LinkedIn's grant, I amplanning to set-up library in

school, so that kids can utilizethis opportunities to borrow

books.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

VijayragunathAruswamy

As the hardest working manI know and my role model, I

plan to use this grant tohelp my father with his

upcoming back surgery.This will will help cover

some of the personalexpenses during his

recovery. It is my hope thathe will be back to doing

what he enjoys most,working and building things.

His enjoyment and hisethics for work have taughtme valuable lessons in my

own career, and it's my turnto repay him for his great

example

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Melvin Salazar

PawParks.nyc is aneighborhood dog park App

that allows NYC area dogparents find local dog

parks, see which pups arealready at the park playing,

connect with friendlyPawPals, and setup fun

PawDates. Through ourPaw-some sponsor network

we also donate food andproducts to local shelters

and rescues for each check-in through the App or

website. So NYC, fetch theApp and Check-in & Help-

out a dog in need!

Jonathan Lagasse

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

There are 4.8M registeredSyrian refugees who need

help. Many families, womanand children are stranded in

neighboring Turkey, Lebanonand Jordan and trying to make

their way to the EU throughGreece. There are massive

strains on education, healthand social-welfare systems.

The LIFG grant will helpprovide food and clothing to

those displaced and stranded

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Richard Wong

Trinity Gaels is an amazing club that

provides a crucial active, fun and

cultural outlet for hundreds of

families in the Donaghmede area.

However being in a disadvantaged

area significantly reduces our

financial ability to equip our children

and support our parent volunteers

adequately. Gaelic Games main two

codes are Gaelic Football and

Hurling. Every week our nursery

section caters for approximately 100

children aged between 4 & 7 yrs old.

However hurling equipment is

extremely expensive. As a result we

are very limited in our ability to

coach hurling across all of our

groups each week.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Isidor Pavia

Girl scout troop 61376 willcreate a Networking Badge for

Senior Girl Scouts who areactively applying 3 key

leadership principles "discover,connect, take action." The girls

will develop specific learningobjectives and outcomes, design

the badge, and network toidentify issues and root causes

in their communities so they canwork collaboratively toward

sustainable solutions.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Kim Viano

The grant will be used to providestipend funding to the Andrew S. CrayFellowship at the National Center for

Transgender Equality (NCTE). TheNCTE is at the forefront of changing

policies to advance transgenderequality, as well as providing essential

services to transgender people andeducating individuals about the

transgender community in the UnitedStates. Andrew S. Cray Fellowshipprovides stipends for summer law

fellows at NCTE in Washington, DC, itenables individuals who may not

otherwise be able to participate in thefellowship to have the opportunity tomake a difference for the transgender

community nationwide.

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

Blake Keng

EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT

will be launching a newemployee grants programsoon. Stay tuned for more

information!