This document announces the selection of 18 employee idea grants for Round 1 of 2015. It provides brief descriptions of each selected idea, which include funding surgeries for a child with a cleft lip in India, providing phone chargers to the homeless in San Francisco, creating a documentary to empower female entrepreneurs, providing aid to students at a monastery school in Burma, educating residents in Bangalore about waste management, building homes for families through Habitat for Humanity in the US and Argentina, helping fund medical treatment for someone with kidney failure in India, supporting arts education in Brazil, facilitating cultural exchange over meals in Singapore, and providing support services to uninsured women with cancer in the US.

1. EMPLOYEE
IDEA GRANTS
R O U N D 1 , 2 0 1 5

2. EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANTS HELP
LINKEDIN EMPLOYEES ACT ON THEIR
IDEAS TO TRANSFORM THEIR FAMILIES,
THEIR COMMUNITIES, OR THEIR WORLD.

3. WE’RE EXCITED TO
ANNOUNCE THE 18
EMPLOYEE IDEA GRANT
SELECTIONS FOR
ROUND 1, 2015…

4. John Rathna Kumar
Bangalore, India
John will be using this grant towards
surgeries for his son’s cleft lip,
so that he can have a
normal and positive experience in life.

5. Stanford Rosenthal
Mountain View, USA
Stanford is partnering with SF
organizations to provide the street
community with portable phone chargers.

6. Charu Sharma
San 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.

7. Regina Lin
Sunnyvale, USA
Regina is furthering education of 300 students at Nget
Pyaw Daw Monastic School in Burma by creating a
curriculum in English and Burmese, as well as providing
long-term aid (new uniforms and sleeping mats).

8. Radha Shreeniwas
Bangalore, 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.

9. Lachelle Rankins
Omaha, USA
Lachelle is working on helping build
homes for families and for the larger
community as a whole.

10. Lindsey Jessen
Omaha, USA
Lindsey will be traveling to Argentina to
finish building a house with Habitat For
Humanity.

11. Vijetha Archibald
Bangalore, 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.

12. Leonardo Garzon
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Leonardo will be helping TPP build a community
where everyone can passionately pursue their
own interests in the fields of arts and education.

13. Arif Khan & Ibrahim Musa
Singapore
Arif and Ibrahim are working on “Eat-an-Idea,” a
not-for-profit platform to facilitate the exchange
of ideas over a meal with another person from a
different background, creed, race, income level or
lifestyle.

14. 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 Bonadonna
Chicago, USA

15. Diogo Oliveira Marra
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Diogo is working to treat or mitigate
Autism, Asperger and other social impairment
conditions through Role Playing Games and
programs.

16. Shaliza Kassam
Chicago, USA
Shaliza is helping a young professional, Karim,
who was abandoned by his family, achieve his
dream of attaining his GED, becoming a
police officer, and impacting the world.

17. Elizabeth DiCiurcio
Chicago, USA
Elizabeth is creating a mentor ring to provide
support, encouragement, advice and inspiration for
single mothers in college; one member will receive a
scholarship in pursuit of higher ed.

18. Logu Venkatachalam
Sunnyvale, USA
Logu is launching “I Speak English” – a
program to help rural Indian students
develop conversational skills in English.

19. Stewart Lee
Singapore
On behalf of Stewart and the LSS leadership team,
this grant will go into helping transform a team
member’s family.

20. Lucia Peyrot
Dublin, Ireland
Lucia is working on promoting
works of art from her grandfather with
her mother.

21. Michael Espenschied
Chicago, USA
Michael is working on building water
resources for orphanages in Kenya.