LinkedIn for Good announced the winners of its 2014 Employee Transformation Grants. The grants support LinkedIn employees' efforts to transform themselves, LinkedIn, or the world. Fifteen employees received grants to fund projects like bringing holistic medicine to an employee's mother, completing yoga ambassador training, and filling backpacks with supplies for homeless teens. The grants also supported international projects such as rebuilding a home in India, creating literacy programs in Thailand and Africa, and providing comfort to parents in China who have lost children.

1. LinkedIn for Good Announces its 2014
Employee Transformation Grant Winners

2. LinkedIn for Good Employee Transformation Grants:
(n.) 15 annual grants awarded to LinkedIn employees to
support their efforts to transform themselves, LinkedIn
or the world.

3. CL IONA MOUL TON
Bringing holistic medicine to her mother so she can
replace pain with a more peaceful life

4. JANE FEIGHERY
Completing her training to become a yoga ambassador
and create her own healthy living initiative

5. KIMBERLY RICKARDS
Filling backpacks with supplies and necessities for
homeless and foster teens in NYC

6. L I ZANNE BARNWAL L
Fulfilling a lifelong dream by competing in the ITU World
Triathlon Championships in Ireland

7. DAVID WOODWARD
Bringing opportunity and resources to a village in
Cambodia

8. MARCEL LA ZOUCHA
Giving her children the gift of family by uniting them with
their grandfather

9. MARIA CESPEDES
Furnishing a shelter for disabled orphans in rural Peru

10. MCKINZ IE KANDEL
Visiting her adopted goddaughter in El Salvador to
celebrate important milestones in her life

11. MICHAEL NOONE
Bringing computer skills and online literacy to orphans in
Zambia

12. VAUGHN GRAY
Creating an English book club and literacy initiative for
the Baan Kamala School in Thailand

13. FEL IX AYIKA
Changing the perspectives of students in Tongo with
textbooks and reading skills

14. CIARA FOGERTY
Contributing towards her cousin Emily’s PhD

15. PROMEET MANSATA
Rebuilding a house for a family and their two children in
Bangalore

16. CONG NI
Creating a program to provide comfort to parents who
have deceased children in China

17. HARI MANGALATHVEEDU
Helping his one month old son get treatment for a
bilateral cleft lip

18. Learn more at
linkedin.com/lifg