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January 18 - Education Circle Meeting, at McKesson, San Francisco
January 19 - Environment / Energy Circle Meeting, at Greenberg Traurig LLP, San Francisco
February 7 - Global Economic Opportunity Circle Meeting, San Francisco
February 15 - Education Circle Meeting, San Francisco
February 16 - Environment / Energy Circle Meeting, at Greenberg Traurig LLP, San Francisco
 May 13 to 15 - SAVE THE DATE for the Annual Member Retreat, Monterey, CA
Check out more upcoming events on our website.
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Deborah Barron, Farella Braun + Martel -
John Bissell, Micromidas -
Stephen Bronstein, IODA -
Lucy Burns, Oodle, Inc. -
Margret Caruso, Quinn Emanuel -
April Chou, NewSchools Venture Fund -
Katie Colendich, O'Melveny & Myers LLP -
Melissa Davini, Medicines360 -
Casey Farmer, Rogers Family Foundation -
Megan Goering, Ulu Ventures -
Adam Gross -
Jules Hodder, AT&T -
Joe Kleinschmidt, Leverage Software -
Wendy Millet, The Nature Conservancy -
Deborah Mintz, NewSchools Venture Fund -
Stephanie Rico, Wells Fargo -
Steve Schoettler, Zynga -
Jillian Settle, Rogers Family Foundation -
Rob Trice, SK Telecom Ventures -
Ron Turiello, Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc. -
Krista Van Tassel, Wells Fargo
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Full Circle Fund is an engaged philanthropy organization cultivating the next generation of community leaders and driving lasting social change in the Bay Area. Learn more and get involved...
Questions or comments? Contact the eNewsletter Managing Editor, Kari Jung
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 Great giving means aligning your values, time, and assets. Full Circle Fund gets this, and is achieving great results by inspiring the next generation to lead by example.
John P. Morgridge
Chairman Emeritus, Cisco and Founding Signatory of the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge
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What's Your Green Dream?
 Green Schools Initiative (GSI) - one of our Environment Circle grantees - is making great strides in its program to expand outreach and inspire parents to become green champions at their children's schools. The nonprofit was founded in 2004 by parent-environmentalists who were shocked by how un-environmental their kids' schools were. Since then, GSI has mobilized thousands of teachers, students, and parents to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools in the U.S.
January 2011 marks a major milestone in the GSI/Full Circle Fund partnership: the launch of the online Green Schools Parent Toolkit and the "What's Your Green Dream School?" contest. Starting with an engaging 3-minute video, the toolkit has six quick and easy steps designed to help busy parents become advocates for reducing the environmental footprint of their child's school...
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Education Circle Grantee Honored With Jefferson Award
 Bidyut (BK) Bose has been honored with a Jefferson Award for his visionary leadership as executive director of the Niroga Institute, a two-year Full Circle Fund grantee. The Jefferson Awards for Public Service were co-founded in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and others to honor volunteerism and community outreach throughout the United States. BK's important work at Niroga has brought to light the critical need to put students first, and teach them transformational skills that enable them to be more receptive to learning.
BK left a successful career as a technology executive in Silicon Valley to launch the Niroga Institute in 2005. His goal was to create a vehicle to bring Transformative Life Skills (TLS) - including mindful movement, breathing and meditation techniques - to at-risk youth and other vulnerable populations who would not otherwise have access to these practices...
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Expert Roster of Speakers Promotes Ideas, Dialogue, and Action
 To help our member community enhance their skills as leaders and philanthropists, Full Circle Fund focuses on bringing role models to the table for programs that promote learning, dialogue, and action. The latter part of 2010 offered a powerhouse of expertise from mentors such as Ted Mitchell, CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund and John Morgridge, Chairman Emeritus of Cisco. These and other visionaries generously shared best practices and wisdom around grant making, social innovation, project management, impact measurement, and leadership. Their recommendations will inform future work in our focus areas of education, environment, and global economic opportunity...
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La Cocina Project Connects Food Entrepreneurs to Growth Capital
 Our Global Economic Opportunity Circle just wrapped up a year of engagement with La Cocina, an innovative nonprofit incubator for food entrepreneurs like Elvia Buendia of La Luna Cupcakes (her daughter Arai Zuemy Buendia is pictured at right).
La Cocina requested Full Circle Fund's strategic help to increase the number of businesses that graduate within an identified time frame, raise the number of new participants accepted into the program, and help participants access growth capital. These enhancements will allow the nonprofit to become a model incubator kitchen, laying the groundwork for scaling the organization locally and replicating in other geographic areas...
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Member of the Year: Braden Penhoet
 At the November 10, 2010 Inspiring Leaders Series Event, Braden Penhoet was given Full Circle Fund's highest honor, the Member of the Year Full Impact Award. Braden has been a pro-active, passionate member of the Environment Circle since joining in 2008. First as Circle Vice Chair, and most recently as Co-Chair, Braden has played an integral role in multiple projects within Full Circle Fund's grant portfolio, and is also a leader in the organization's member recruitment initiatives, strategic planning, and grant cycle operations...
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Heart of Silicon Valley
 Three hundred of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers recently convened for a private concert at the elegant Portola Valley estate of venture capitalist Laird Cagan and his wife Sherry to hear The English Beat. This philanthropic couple opened their home and hearts for a memorable benefit that netted over $43,000 for Full Circle Fund.
This evening of fun and philanthropy was made possible by the Peninsula-based nonprofit, Heart of Silicon Valley (HOSV). HOSV is a volunteer-run nonprofit, co-founded by Full Circle Fund Member Jeff Pollock, that has produced 20 benefit concerts to date, bringing together hundreds of volunteers, musicians, local businesses, professionals, and philanthropists to support charitable organizations that are making a difference...
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