This document announces the selection of 18 employee idea grants for Round 1 of 2015. It provides brief descriptions of each selected idea, which include funding surgeries for a child with a cleft lip in India, providing phone chargers to the homeless in San Francisco, creating a documentary to empower female entrepreneurs, providing aid to students at a monastery school in Burma, educating residents in Bangalore about waste management, building homes for families through Habitat for Humanity in the US and Argentina, helping fund medical treatment for someone with kidney failure in India, supporting arts education in Brazil, facilitating cultural exchange over meals in Singapore, and providing support services to uninsured women with cancer in the US.