This
Year’s Gunn Grants' Social
Entrepreneurs!
Congratulations to these inspiring Gunn students who
are turning their innovative ideas into extraordinary projects
involving over 60 Gunn students, all determined to make our
world, here in Palo Alto and halfway around it, a better
place:
Leland W’s Gunn @Your
Service micro-grant will purchase construction
materials to renovate a walking path in the Palo Alto
Baylands.
Arjun P. will use his grant
for a summer soccer camp that will support Right to Play, a
charity that improves the lives of disadvantaged children
through sport and play.
Divya S’s grant will pay for
an education campaign preparing Palo Altans for
earthquakes.
Tatiana G’s micro-grant will
help Gunn’s African Literacy Club ship the children’s books it
is collecting for Spread the Words, a non-profit that
helps establish libraries in primary schools in sub-Saharan
Africa.
Sungkook K. will be using
his Gunn Grant to provide sheet music and music stands to Gunn
musicians performing for war veterans in Palo Alto Veterans’
Hospital.
Praniti S’s grant will help
Gunn’s Asha Club run a fundraiser for Asha for Education, an
organization that provides computers, food and education
to orphans in Bangalore, India.
Lily T’s Gunn Grant will buy
flutes to loan to music students in Costano Elementary
School’s after-school music program in East Palo
Alto.
Natasha A. will spend her
micro-grant to ship academic books to South Sudan in
cooperation with Sudan-American Foundation for Education and STAND, the student arm
of the Genocide Intervention Network.
Gunn at Your Service is exceptionally proud to be
supporting these outstanding projects!