SHG Foundation

The SHG Foundation is a fund devoted to enabling U.S.-based non-profit organizations to improve the lives of low-income women and children worldwide. The foundation was created by Sand Hill Group co-founders M.R. Rangaswami and Constantin Delvanis. It was endowed by funds from the groups Enterprise conference series. The goal to build a $1-million endowment was achieved at the tenth anniversary Enterprise event in 2007.

The SHG Foundation funds one or two outstanding organizations per year with either a San Francisco Bay Area or international focus. Grantees also get connected to the influential Sand Hill Group network of entrepreneurs, VCs and software industry executives.

Past grantees include:

• Akshaya Patra
  Unlimited Food for Education
• American Red Cross
  The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors-across the street, across the country and across the world-in emergencies.
• Asset India Foundation
  Achieving sustainable social equality through Technology.
• Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America
  Mentoring at-risk children and teens.
• BUILD
  Real-world entrepreneurial experience that empowers youth from under-resourced communities.
• Community Foundation Silicon Valley
  Literacy grants to schools throughout Silicon Valley.
• Child Relief and You (CRY)
  Support for orphanage in India.
• Field Trip Foundation
  Connects students with educational outdoor resources in the Bay Area.
• Fresh Lifelines for Youth
  Reduction of juvenile crime and incarceration through legal education, mentoring and peer leadership services
• Interplast
  Reconstructive surgery for children with birth defects.
• JustREAD
  A non-profit literacy program for middle and high school students
• Music for Minors
  Nurturing in children a lifelong love of music.
• Project Concern International
  Long-term solutions to health care problems impacting children and their mothers.
• Project Impact
  Dedicated to making medical technology and health care services accessible, affordable, and financially self-sustaining.
• Room to Read
  Provide under-privileged children with an opportunity to gain the lifelong gift of education.
• Sahana
  Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management System.
• Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society
  Provides an intensive two-week program that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.
• Silicon Valley Children’s Fund
  Educational and recreational programs at the Children’s Shelter of Santa Clara County.
• SKS Microfinance
  SKS empowers the poor to become economically self-reliant by providing financial services in a sustainable manner.
• Unitus
  Unitus is a global microfinance accelerator. Our mission is to alleviate global poverty by increasing access to microfinance.
• Women’s Opportunity Fund
  Microloans to low-income women in 20 developing countries.
• World Cataract Foundation
  Helping the world see!

To contact the SHG Foundation, please click here.