 It's The Cube, coming to you from San Jose, California. Here's your host, Jeff Rick. Hi, Jeff Rick here. We're on the ground at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose at the Silicon Valley Business Journal of Corporate Philanthropy Awards. It's a great event. They're going to honor 50 companies tonight for their contributions back to the community via a lot of nonprofits and money and time and contributions to their people. So it's a great opportunity to honor them. It's also an opportunity for some of the local nonprofits to come out, put a face to the name, talk about what they're up to, and really thank the corporations for their contributions. So I'm excited to be joined by Leah de Guzman from the March of Dimes. Welcome. Thank you. So March of Dimes has been around a long time. It's a name we probably all know, but I don't know if everybody knows exactly what does the March of Dimes do. So give us a little update. And actually, that is something that we are working on. We are a nonprofit that's been an organization for 76 years, but right now our main mission is to fund research for finding cures basically for prematurity, birth defects, and infant mortality. Because originally it was a polio? Was that the original charge? It was, yes. Our actual president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had polio, and it was his disease that he actually wanted to find a cure. And so he hired basically Dr. Jonas Salk to come up with the vaccine. Okay. And the dimes were sent to the White House to raise funds to actually find the vaccines. So they were actually dimes. There were dimes back in the 30s. Okay, very good. So what are some of the main types of diseases or conditions that you're targeting now, or is it a pretty broad scope? Well right now we're actually focusing on prematurity because we know a lot of the effects of birth defects, but we don't know the causes of them. And so we actually opened up, well we have four right now. We're getting on five research centers. We have one in Stanford. And they're actually looking at the effects. And they're trying to figure out what causes it. And actually what causes a mother to go into labor. We don't even know that. So do you fund specific doctors, specific grants? I mean is it a specific hospital or facility? How does that work? We actually fund grants. We fund research facilities such as Stanford. And we also do NICU centers throughout the US. We actually have one at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. We have a NICU center there with a staff member. Excellent. So talk a little bit about corporate philanthropy and what an event like this means and the companies that are here that contribute to March of Dimes. So actually here tonight we are reaching out to people in hopes that we can get more involved. We actually are really great partners with Kaiser, Cisco, actually a lot of the hospitals. El Camino, Lucille Packard. But we are trying to actually reach out to more companies. To more companies. We are. Okay so give the plug what the companies need to do to get involved. What's the best way? I mean a lot of these organizations have a component where you can actually get involved, get your hands dirty. Do you have anything like that or is it just writing checks or what are some of the ways that people can get involved? Because maybe they think the only way is to donate their dimes or take the walk, right? So actually we have three events throughout the year. But our largest one is our March for Babies, which is the last weekend in April. And we do it here at the Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose. And we do need volunteers for the day of setup and breakdown. But also during the walk we need cheerleaders. We need people to help with registration. We also do our signature chef's auction, which we do actually here in the Imperial Ballroom at Fairmont. And then through WL Butler, a construction company, they host a golf tournament for us. And so throughout those we can get sponsorships. We can do family teams and corporate teams for our March. And a lot of people do fundraise for us. But we are always looking for volunteers to help with a number of things. Okay so people can get involved. They can get their feet dirty, get their hands dirty. Alright so where do they go? What's the web address? Give the plug. So go to marchofdimes.org. You can also find us on Facebook. You can find us on Twitter. But we are actually located in San Jose on Winchester. Alrighty. Well thank you for stopping by. Thank you. Good luck grabbing more volunteers, grabbing more dimes. Leah de Guzman from the March of Dimes, here on the ground at the Fairmont in San Jose at the Silicon Valley Business Journal Corporate Philanthropy Awards.