Summary of employees who were awarded a grant to help them transform the world, their community or themselves.

1. Transformation Grants 2013

2. LinkedIn Transformation Grants:
(n.) Annual grants awarded to LinkedIn employees
to support their efforts to transform themselves, their
families, their communities and/or the world.
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3. Akhilesh Gupta
Mountain View, CA
Creating a Bluetooth-enabled button to alert friends &
family in an emergency situation

4. Akshit Khurana &
Neha Jain
Neha Jain, India
Cleaning up areas in central Delhi – Chandni
Chowk, Chawri Bazar – to inspire hope that
Indian cities can be clean and green

5. Amal Prasad
Mountain View, CA
Providing for his 5-year-old son who was
diagnosed with leukemia on June 1, 2013

6. Amy O’Sullivan &
Evi Wiratma
Sunnyvale, CA
Providing low cost group counseling to Bay Area
women whose spouses are unemployed

7. Anand Dave
Chicago, IL
Traveling to parts of India without cameras to
take and give people the first picture of
themselves & loved ones

8. Brett Wallace
San Francisco, CA
Teaching underprivileged kids the power of
storytelling through education

9. Chris Wing
New York, NY
Funding & helping build 60 bunk beds for an
orphanage in Tanzania

10. Iain Sammut
Omaha, NE
Publishing a book that teaches children how to
communicate how to seek help if & when they’ve
been abused

11. Jonathan Jackson
San Francisco, CA
Helping transform his mother’s career from
nurse to professor by supporting her further
education

12. Krista Canfield
Mountain View, CA
Installing a backup power source for the
wheelchair lift in her Uncle’s home, who has
multiple sclerosis

13. Luke Duncan
Mountain View, CA
Funding a field trip for his wife’s fifth-grade class
in Oakland Unified School District

14. Michael Bennette
Mountain View, CA
Purchasing meals and have a group event to
package 10,000 meals to ship to areas that have
food shortages or have been impacted by a
disaster

15. Shruthi Dathathri
Mountain View, CA
Providing medicine and education to a family
whose breadwinner suffers from kidney
dysfunction