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Peninsula Endowment Announces TYPES OF special innovation oriented projects funded by Innovation Grant Awards IN PRIOR GRANT CYCLES:

 

The Peninsula Endowment is pleased to announce its list of Innovation Grant Awards which have been given to support special projects implemented by Northern California Nonprofit Organizations striving to enhance the lives of persons with visual disabilities.  The following projects.  This list should be considered merely illustrative of the scope and breadth of projects which have been funded.  The list should not in any way limit the imagination or creativity  of prospective applicants.

For example, a project was funded to incorporate artificial intelligence into the process of scanning a physical book with STEM equations into electronic form to expedite the electronic scanning and review process.

For example, a project was funded to develop personalized / customized braille contraction transcriptions to allow persons with a visual disability, targeting K through 12 students, to access custom braille contractions to any book or written materials.

For example, a project was funded to provide new and specialized accessible tools and resources which did not exist such as tactile maps of the waters in San Francisco Bay to enhance the experiences of sailors with visual disabilities while sailing on San Francisco Bay.

For example, a project was funded which will produce visual and audio descriptions of the entire permanent collection of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, one of the most distinguished collections of modern and contemporary American art housed on a university campus. These descriptions will be available in text and audio form within the museum and on its website. The museum also plans to develop a small catalog for the 10th anniversary in 2024 and produce braille copies for visitors. This project will allow the blind and low-vision community to experience this world-class collection in person and online more fully. The museum is admission free and welcomes tens of thousands of visitors annually.

For example, a project was funded focusing on Braille Production and Training Programs to provide Braille transcription and production of text books, manuals, playbills, business cards, and other written materials for people living with vision loss and blindness. In addition, the program will offer an employment training program in which current and former clients of Society for the Blind and other individuals who are blind can become Certified Braille Transcribers and/or learn the production and sales side of the Braille Production and Training Program.

For example, a pilot project was funded to provide Assistive Technology (AT) mobile smart phone stand sourcing and instruction to low income, elderly people living with sight loss to better utilize existing mobile smart phone applications that allow users to take an image of the document and then have the application convert the image to audio and read aloud using the screen reading technology native to the mobile smart phone device.

For example, an expanded  project was funded by the Vista Center for the Blind and visually Impaired to provide wider scope Customized Braille Transcription Services for persons with visual disabilities to access custom braille contractions to any book or written materials and as a result enhance and enrich lives of participants, primarily school aged clients through increasing their access to study materials digitally, learn at speed, therefore accelerate opportunities to succeed academically.

 

Note that these are merely illustrations of innovative special projects funded by Innovative Grant Program awards  in the past.  Prospective nonprofit applicants should think critically about the needs of their program participants, the general public, etc. to develop appropriate special projects to be described in submitted Innovation Grant Applications.

 

 

Innovation Grant Program.

Please see   Our Innovation Grant Program Overview – PENINSULA ENDOWMENT page for an overview of how we effectuate our Vision and Mission by supporting nonprofit organizations principally located and operating in Northern California.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Please see also our  Innovation Grant Program: frequently asked questions – PENINSULA ENDOWMENTpage for additional information about our Innovation Grant Program and how qualifying nonprofit organizations may request grant funding for their innovative projects.

Innovation Grant Program Documents:

You can request an Innovation Grant Program document set for the current grant cycle which will include an IGA, FAQ document and a template budget spreadsheet by emailing us a request for such documents at peninsula.endowment@gmail.com.  Alternatively, you can go to our Innovation Grant Program Documents – PENINSULA ENDOWMENT Page to download the current grant cycle documents.