Kimberly Mecham, of Bellevue, has been nominated for the Microsoft Alumni Foundation’s Integral Fellows Award in recognition of dedicated service to philanthropy. She works with the Rwanda Girls Initiative and has been instrumental in technologically equipping a STEM school in Rwanda that helps financially vulnerable girls.

At the Microsoft Alumni Foundation’s annual celebration—Reunion with a Purpose—on Nov. 1, up to three alumni from among the nominees will be named 2013 Integral Fellows. Each Fellow will receive a $25,000 unrestricted grant to benefit the nonprofit organization with which they work.

“We’re proud to show that in our fifth year of these awards, we have another outstanding group of nominees doing exemplary work in local communities and worldwide,” said Marylou Brannan, executive director of the Microsoft Alumni Foundation. “The foundation is pleased to recognize some of the many passionate and dedicated philanthropists who are Microsoft alumni and support their efforts.”