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Awards Program #MakeHungerHistory CELEBRATING yourTO END commitment LOCAL HUNGER MARCH 21, 2019 MAY 3, 2018 2018 FUNDRAISERS AND FOOD DRIVES: A YEAR IN REVIEW MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR LOPEZ HEIRLOOM PLANTS LINKEDIN PALO ALTO NETWORKS MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICHAEL MINA BOURBON STEAKHOUSE AND PUB SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT ROPES, KIDS OF SAN CARLOS ROBBIE GOULD, SF 49ERS STAR ONE CREDIT UNION SONY PLAYSTATION SERVICENOW TECH CU 28RECOGNITIONAnnual EVENT MARCH 21, 2019 5:30 PM Award pick-up, appetizers, drinks, music and exclusive warehouse tours 6:30 PM Special award winner recognition 7:15 PM Coffee and dessert A special thank you to the following Aurora Catering for preparing a delicious spread Push Button Flix for the entertaining photo booth DJ DannyG for providing fun and lively music 1 Conratulation BRASS RING COMMUNITY CHAMPION Companies, organizations or groups that Organizations or groups with the highest earned 500,000 points or more in a year total points in each of the three size Apple categories Applied Materials Fewer than 250 participants: Cisco Dave Severns Memorial Golf Tournament Cypress Semiconductor 250 to 1,000 participants: Google Dartmouth Middle School Intel More than 1,000 participants: Intuit Menlo-Atherton High School Maxim Integrated Safeway CORPORATE CHAMPION Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation Companies with the highest total points in Sobrato Family Foundation each of the three size categories BUMPER CROP Fewer than 250 participants: Star One Credit Union Companies, organizations or groups with incredible Fundraiser and Food Drive growth 250 to 1,000 participants: Cypress Semiconductor Global Blood Therapeutics KLA More than 1,000 participants: Palo Alto Networks Applied Materials San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) EMPLOYEE FOOD BOWL The company with the highest per capita employee points (corporate gifts not CORPORATE FOOD BOWL included) and more than 50,000 points The company with the highest per capita in a year points and more than 50,000 total points in a year Applied Materials Applied Materials GOLDEN APPLE School groups showing extraordinary e ort Los Altos High School ASB San Mateo High School 2 SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS HARVEST 365 OUTSTANDING DRIVE Companies, organizations and groups that COORDINATORS support Second Harvest all year round Recognition given to exemplary Fundraiser El Rancho Verde Apartments and Food Drive Coordinators First Congregational Church Hilarie Atkisson, Fenwick & West Conratulation Hall & Burnett Orthodontics Jaimie Vargas & Erin Brennock-Guzman, Kaiser Permanente Medical O ces — Milpitas Synopsys Sacred Heart Church OUTSIDE THE BARREL HUNGER HERO Honor for outstanding innovation and creativity Companies, organizations, groups and in Fundraising and Food Drive e orts individuals demonstrating an exceptional level of Carlos Dunlap, Carlos Dunlap’s [NVIDIA, commitment to hunger relief Family and Friends] A-List Fundraiser Michele Ban, North Star Academy Goombahs Car Club Italian Men’s Club of San Jose Hewlett Packard Enterprise Micron Technology Lane Splitters Hog Harley Owners Group Venk Nathamuni, Maxim Integrated Lopez Heirloom Plants NetApp NVIDIA OUTSTANDING YOUTH Zanotto’s Family Markets Recognition given to exemplary students Delphi Academy MILLION MEALS CLUB ROPES, Kids of San Carlos Companies, organizations and groups that accumulate the equivalent of a million points. SPIRIT AWARD Totals are cumulative year over year and will be Outstanding faith-based Fundraiser and recognized in increments of 5 million. Food Drive 85 million meals Congregation Kol Emeth Synagogue Cisco 50 million meals STAND UP FOR Applied Materials KIDS OUTSTANDING 40 million meals Cypress Semiconductor ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 10 million meals The company, organization or group NetApp demonstrating the most excitement for the 5 million meals Stand Up for Kids campaign Oracle Santa Clara County Library District 1 million meals Dartmouth Middle School LinkedIn Visa 3 Thank you for your outstanding efforts. The awards include all fi nancial contributions ($1=2.5 points) and food donations (1lb=1 point). The per capita fi gure is calculated by dividing your total points by the total number of participants in your group. BLUE DIAMOND Franklin Templeton Investments NVIDIA FX Palo Alto Laboratory Omidyar Network Fund 50,000+ points or Genentech Oracle 225+ per capita points Google Pacifi c Postal Credit Union Goombahs Car Club Palo Alto Networks AAA Guckenheimer Enterprises PG&E Adobe Hendy Guesthouse Pick-n-Pull Auto Dismantlers Ameriprise Financial Hewlett Packard Enterprise Pinkstone Lights Analog Devices Hillsdale United Methodist Church Proofpoint Apple IBM Raley's Supermarkets Applied Materials Intel Rambus Arista Networks Safeway Avidbank Intuit BlackBerry Intuitive Samsung Semiconductor Bon Appetit Management Company Italian Men's Club of San Jose San Mateo Public Library California Artists Jack's Bar Mitzvah Sandra Adams Food Drive Carlos Dunlap’s [NVIDIA, Family and Kaiser Permanente Medical O ces - Santa Clara County Library District Friends] A-List Fundraiser Milpitas Santa Clara County Parks and CEFCU KLA Recreation Cisco KLEEBO! Promotional Products Silicon Valley Leadership Group Coherent Lam Research Foundation Compact Imaging Leap 4 Joy Silver Lake Continental Automotive ITS LinkedIn Simpson Thacher & Bartlett County of Santa Clara Logyx Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Cupertino Electric Lucky Save Mart FoodMaxx Sobrato Family Foundation Cypress Semiconductor Supermarkets South Bay Teens Against Hunger Cytokinetics Marketo, An Adobe Company Splunk Daly City Public Library Marvell Semiconductor Star One Credit Union Dartmouth Middle School Maxim Integrated Structural Integrity Associates Dave Severns Memorial Golf Medtronic Subway Tournament Menlo-Atherton High School Symantec Corporation David J. Powers & Associates Meriwest Credit Union Synopsys Delta Air Lines Micron Technology Tech CU E*TRADE Financial Microsoft Turner Construction Company eBay Nanosys Veritas Technologies Empire Broadcasting (KLIV / KRTY) National Association of Letter Carriers Visa Facebook NetApp VMware Fenwick & West Netfl ix West Valley Construction Company First Tech Federal Credit Union Nima's Cookie Drive for Cans Western Digital 4 AWARD WINNERS Whole Foods MAP Royalty Windsor College Prep William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Megaforce Corporation Woodside Priory School Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati MOMS Club of Santa Clara Workday Xtime / Cox Automotive Nintendo of America Zanotto's Family Markets NOKIA Mountain View North Star Academy PLATINUM Orlando, Mitts, Moore and Company GOLD 25,000 to 49,999 points or Palo Alto Bridge Club 10,000 to 24,999 points or 111 to 224 per capita points Peet's Co£ ee & Tea 51 to 110 per capita points PricewaterhouseCoopers Abbott Laboratories Qualcomm 99.7 NOW Ameriprise Financial R&M USA Agilent Technologies Association of Silicon Valley Brokers REG Life Sciences AIMCO Properties Autodesk Bay Area Delinquents MC Bay Area Youth Music Society Boy Scouts of America Pacifi c Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council Caliber Collision Camden Pet Hospital Cargill Incorporated Charles Schwab Congregation Kol Emeth Synagogue Coupa Software CSI Electrical Contractors Dell, Inc. Deloitte & Touche DigiLens Duran & Venables Electronic Arts Equinix APPLIED MATERIALS Evergreen School District Foothills Congregational Church Frank, Rimerman + Co. Genesys Robson Homes Alpacas by the Sea Gilead Sciences Round Table Pizza Alpha & Omega Semiconductor Global Blood Therapeutics San Jose Lodge No. 10 Amazon Palo Alto Guru Food Drive San Mateo High School Amgen Habitec Architecture and Planning Santa Clara Corvettes Anjumane-E-Jamali Hitachi America Santa Clara Valley Open Space ASML Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Authority Authentic Pilates Los Gatos HP SAP Bank of America San Jose Johnstone Moyer Seagate Technology Bellarmine College Preparatory Jumio Corporation Shirdi Sai Parivaar Community Group Big Sky Communications Juniper Networks Silver Leaf Neighborhood Association BNY Mellon KPMG Silver Spring Networks Bridge Bank Latham & Watkins Slalom Cadence Design Systems Lockheed Martin Sony Interactive Entertainment California Water Service Company Los Altos High School ASB Varian Medical Systems Carpet and FabriCare Institute LPA Vocera Communications Charlie Glanville Drive LumaSense Technologies West Valley College Library ChemoCentryx 5 AWARD WINNERS Christ The Good Shepherd Lutheran Itron Paragon Technical Church Jasper Ridge Partners Patelco Credit Union Citrix Systems Keller Williams Bay Area Estates PayPal City of San Jose City Hall Keysight Technologies Perkins Coie Community of Infinite Spirit Khan Lab School Pfizer Congregation Beth David Kirk Leong's Birthday Prudential Congregation Beth Jacob Kohl's R&R Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Congregation Etz Chayim Lawrence Livermore National Redwood City Public Library Congregation Shir Hadash Laboratory Rigel Pharmaceutical Cornerstone Research Limon Salon Rinconada Hills Association Couchbase Lockheed Martin Annual Chili Robert W. Baird & Co. Curves - Grant Road Cook O£ SA Photonics Data Endure Lockheed Martin Employees' Salesforce Dermira Foundation San Francisco 49ers Dialog Semiconductor Loring Ward San Mateo County Library Digital Moose Lounge Louie Family Santa Clara County Social Services Digital Realty MacMillan Family Foundation, Inc. Agency Erik's DeliCafe Macy's Valley Fair Schnitzer Steel Industries Ernst & Young Marcum LLP Sidley Austin Palo Alto
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