Business Offerings for Communities

Community Development

The Points of Light / HandsOn Network is a national nonprofit with more than 250 affiliates (local action centers) in communities across America. These local action centers coordinate “hands on” volunteer service to help foster community improvement and development.
Visit Website or Call: 1-800-VOLUNTEER

Alcoa

A $150,000 Alcoa Foundation grant will fund a new workforce skill development program at Eastern Iowa Community College (USA). The program—an extension of the college district’s existing Career Link Essentials+ program—will help low-income and minority residents transition into the workplace.

Allstate

Allstate supports numerous local movements specific to communities in need. Find out what Allstate is doing in your region.

Amgen

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) New Science Teacher Academy, co-founded by the Amgen Foundation with a three-year, $3 million grant, is a professional development initiative created to help strengthen quality science teaching, enhance teacher confidence and classroom excellence, and improve teacher knowledge of scientific subject matter.

ARAMARK

Aramark will dedicate more than $5 million in cash grants, volunteer hours, and product donations toward improving neighborhood centers as part of a new philanthropic and employee volunteerism initiative. Over the next several years, “ARAMARK Building Community” plans to assist neighborhood community centers in nearly 30 cities by holding volunteer days to enhance the physical environment of each center through landscaping, painting, and refurbishing playgrounds. In addition, volunteers will provide expertise and resources related to nutrition and wellness, workforce readiness and basic services, such as food and clothing drives and nutritional education as well as offering job skills and interview training.

Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles have unveiled their “Birdland Stimulus Package” which encourages fans to celebrate their birthday at the ballpark for free in 2009.  Fans with birthdays between January and March will receive a voucher to an April game and fans with birthdays from October to December can attend a September game for free.

Baxter

Baxter’s Teen Living Programs offers housing, job training, educational support, mental health counseling, holistic health care, and life skills training to at risk youths in the Chicago area.

Best Buy

In 2009, Best Buy’s @15 Program focuses on young teens between the ages of 13-15 and provides funding for more than 300 ventures for youth-led social change programs nationwide.

BJ’s Wholesale Club

The 2008-2009 school year marked the launch of BJ’s Adopt-A-School’s expanded GRADES Program. In addition to the benefits listed above, GRADES schools work with BJ’s Community Relations Specialists to develop customized partnership plans focused on curriculum enhancement, community involvement and fundraising. Schools then work with their local Clubs to implement these plans.

Borders

Borders is offering educators a 20% discount on purchases made for classroom use, Borders stores also host annual spring and fall educator receptions as a thank-you for supporting children’s programming and patronage.

Capital One

Capital One is continuing to extend loans and making investments in community development entities. They finance the creation and rehabilitation of safe, affordable housing for low-income and special-needs populations. Capital One also seeks to develop, enhance and strengthen low-income neighborhoods by financing projects that support community stabilization and revitalization efforts.

Cardinal Health

The Cardinal Health Foundation is committed to improving preventative healthcare and wellness in communities where our employees live and work. We fund local education, programming and community partnerships that: 1) Promote active, healthy lifestyles for children, families and the elderly through the schools and the broader community, 2) encourage health literacy, patient education and engagement,3) prevent the abuse and misuse of prescription drugs. These grants range from $15,000 to $50,000 and are awarded to non-profit organizations.

Chevron Corporation

Chevron’s programs have focused on building human and institutional capacity. In 2007, they invested approximately $119 million in community engagement initiatives.

CMS Energy

Michigan 2-1-1 has received a $300,000 grant for statewide expansion of the 2-1-1 health and human service help line from CMS Energy’s ongoing support of the United Way. The 2-1-1 help line is the health and human service equivalent to 9-1-1 and connects residents with the information and resources they need to build healthy and safe communities.

Community Reinvestment Fund, USA

CRF helps change the lives of people living in economically distressed communities across the country by supplying capital to local community development lenders so they can meet goals like, growing small businesses, increase affordable housing, create and preserve jobs.

Dell

The Dell Foundation supports health and human service programs that focus on the critical and most basic health needs of children ages newborn to 17 in Dell communities. The Dell Foundation helps communities by addressing the important and basic needs of youth in neighborhoods where the majority of Dell families live and work. Grants are awarded in the amount of $50,000 over a two year period.

Deutsche Bank Americas

Grants from the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation support neighborhood-based organizations that develop affordable housing, support the creation of new businesses, generate employment opportunities and address critical service needs. The majority of grants in this category are sourced through three-year awards issued through various Requests for Proposals made available to qualified organizations.

Deutsche Bank Americas is accepting applications for small loans to develop communities.  Microcredit, the extension of very small loans (microloans) to those who lack collateral or a credit history, is proving to be a revolutionary model in enabling people to rise from poverty.
Dr Pepper & Snapple Group

“One Day’s Pay” is a program that encourages employees to get involved with a DPS-sponsored volunteer project during working hours. Volunteer projects are identified quarterly to provide variety for employees and come from all areas of the community including education, health & well-being, environment and others.

Eli Lilly and Company

Every year Eli Lilly sponsors a Day of Service that all employees participate all over the world.

Fifth Third Bank

Fifth Third Bank Community Development Corporation (CDC) provides capital for three primary purposes: create quality affordable housing, fund construction projects that revitalize business districts and living areas, and invest in historic restoration endeavors that help preserve the legacies of the past.

Fifth Third CDC invested $225 million in projects to revitalize and bring hope to local communities.  In Nashville and Charlotte, Fifth Third invested a combined $12.5 Million in low income affordable housing for startup projects.

Gap

Gap Inc. donates a limited number of Appreciation Cards (gift certificates) and white T-shirts to youth-serving and women’s-based organizations that are nonprofit organizations.

Hewlett-Packard

HP is a longtime supporter of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide. HP employees participate in JA programs, including traditional classroom tutoring engagements, Whole School programs and JA-in-a-Day. HP also sponsors student competitions that promote socially responsible business practices and entrepreneurship.

KLA Tencor

KLA Tencor gives excess furniture/fixtures and spare computer and IT equipment to the KLA-Tencor Foundation which donates these materials to organizations around the world.

Land O’Lakes

Land O’Lakes Foundation recognizes rural communities are a cornerstone of American life and has established ongoing giving programs to insure growth. Foundation resources are awarded through several programs that donate cash and encourage employee volunteerism.

Legg Mason Inc.

Legg Mason encourages its employees to participate in several volunteer programs it promotes throughout the year. These programs include: Days of Caring, Our Holiday Outreach, Earth Days, & International Volunteer Day.

LexisNexis

LexisNexis, through the global LexisNexis® Cares program, provides their employees two days off to volunteer for charitable organizations. LexisNexis also sponsors volunteer work at board meetings and conferences throughout the year.

Marshall & Ilsley Corp

The M&I Community Development Corporation (MICDC) helps in community redevelopment projects in markets where M&I has a presence, to help communities.

McGraw Hill

The Volunteer Team Service Grants supports programs and organizations that McGraw Hill employees actively participate in. Employees have the opportunity to create their own service projects and McGraw Hill provides $1500 grants to cover expenses for these projects.

Mutual of Omaha Insurance

NorthSTAR pairs North students with mentors from Mutual of Omaha who allow the students to see their “working world” firsthand – and help them successfully get started down the path toward their future career.

Net Apps

Net App’s Volunteer Time Off program enables each employee to volunteer five days per year, with full pay, during regular business hours to support the non-profit organizations or schools of their choice.

Office Depot Foundation

The Office Depot Foundation has launched the Caring Connection – a user-friendly, online resource that makes it simple to learn about and enroll in thousands of volunteer opportunities. The Foundation firmly believes that “Volunteerism is one of the most effective and meaningful ways in which individuals of all ages can make a difference,” according to Mary Wong, President of the Foundation, especially during these tough economic times.

PBS

Nightly Business Report has been covering the recession and will continue to present in-depth analysis of all the efforts to revive the economy. Look for regular reports in their nightly broadcast, and search the website to review all of Nightly Business Report’s coverage.

Pennsylvania’s Summer Youth Employment Program

The statewide program is funded by $34.5 million, which has gone out to local work force investment boards to provide job training and education services to unemployed workers and young adults.

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis’ ”Roll Up Your Sleeves” program encouraged people to  make a difference by volunteering 20 hours and, in return, were given a free Perry Ellis skip dent dress shirt.

Pilgrim’s Pride

Despite the current economic conditions facing their company and industry, Pilgrim’s Pride Partners are still finding ways to positively affect their communities. Here are a few recent examples of projects.

Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins saw a need in the community, especially with the schools, to provide affordable technology. The REACT Center was created to provide computers for student use in schools, to provide students and teachers with hands-on training in computer hardware, promote a greater awareness in students and teachers regarding the use of “real world” technology, and to serve as a clearinghouse for accepting excess computer equipment from area businesses and donating refurbished computers to schools and other nonprofit community organizations

Shell Oil Company

Every year more than 1,500 Shell employees, retirees and their family members contribute, on average, more than 40,000 hours for company-sponsored volunteer initiatives nationwide. These include support of Shell’s sponsorship of the America’s WETLAND Campaign, Shell’s Workforce Development Initiative and various United Way campaigns.

Siemens

Siemens Caring Hands mobilizes employees to donate their time and talents to worthy causes to carry out Siemens’ commitment to impact the communities in which we live and work through volunteerism.

Spartan Stores

Spartan Stores employees volunteer at their “adopted schools” – often supplying weekly snacks and funding for clothing, field trips, and computer equipment.

Symetra Financial

Symetra Financial is making a difference in their communities and across the country through the Symetra Community Series, a quarterly broadcast program that discusses relevant issues.

Textron

Textron’s grants support programs for Community Revitalization such as affordable housing and economic development in low-income areas along with Health and Human Service Organizations such as food pantries, homeless shelters, health education and services for low-income residents.

The UnitedHealth Foundation

The UnitedHealth Foundation has announced new initiatives to support community health centers in providing healthcare to millions of Americans who are economically challenged in urban and rural areas. The new grants go towards helping facilitate the best use of the $2 billion in federal funding for community health centers through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.

UnitedHealth Group

The Faces of Hope Initiative will highlight the positive impact health centers make on communities they serve, stressing the need for centers to grow & thrive, and to encourage expanded support of them.

Valero Energy

Valero employees donated nearly 139,000 hours of time in 2008 to volunteer for countless community projects, including mentoring students, organizing fund-raisers, participating in clean-up events, volunteering at youth centers and various other activities.

Valspar

Valspar is partnering with Habitat for Humanity to help with neighborhood revitalization through home building, specifically through A Brush with Kindness. Volunteers transform neighborhoods by painting home exteriors, providing minor repairs and landscaping; these tasks can be difficult for low income, disabled and senior homeowners.

Education

Adobe Systems

Through the Train the Teacher (T3) Program, workshops provide Adobe software training to K-12 educators in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California, and Puget Sound, Washington. These workshops provide teachers with the opportunity to learn how to incorporate digital applications into the classroom across a range of curricular activities, with Adobe products.

Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle and high school age youth in a yearlong youth media professional development and support program. AYV educators, in both in-school and out-of school programs, gain skills to enable youth to use digital tools to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Adobe Youth Voices provides eligible educators with funding, software, mentorship, exhibition opportunities, and access to a regional and global network of like-minded teachers and youth media experts.

Affiliated Computer Services

ACS learning modules are presented to high school students to teach essential skills about the workplace environment, including setting goals, completing job applications, writing a quality resume, dressing for success, developing good interview techniques, and making good career decisions.

Biogen Idec

The Community Lab, open to local middle and high school students and teachers, operates teaching laboratories at Biogen Idec’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA and at its research and corporate campus in San Diego, CA. All programs are offered at no cost to the community. Scientists and teachers lead the instruction and offer insights on working at one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. Biogen Idec employees also volunteer as lab assistants, speakers, and mentors. Throughout the academic school year, the Community Lab hosts class visits, professional development seminars for teachers, and student mentoring.

Dell

Dell’s TechKnow program is a 40-hour, self-paced course where students work in teams on Dell–refurbished desktop computers with the goal of learning computer basics. Those who successfully complete the program earn a refurbished computer, which helps promote the digital literacy of others in students’ households.

Dollar General

Dollar General’s Literacy Referral program offers free referral information services to our customers and employees regarding local learn-to-read, GED and English as a Second Language programs.

Hewlett-Packard

HP is a longtime supporter of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide. HP employees participate in JA programs, including traditional classroom tutoring engagements, Whole School programs and JA-in-a-Day. HP also sponsors student competitions that promote socially responsible business practices and entrepreneurship.

Idearc

Enlighten Me is an online literacy program designed to introduce children and parents to Superpages.com with literacy activities.

Marriott International, Inc.

Marriott is helping at-risk, high-school students make the transition to meaningful careers by providing financial assistance for education, “job shadow,” and internship opportunities at Marriott facilities. Scholarships are offered through their community-based partners, and thousands of students discover hospitality as a career path by participating in activities on National Groundhog Job Shadow Day.

Newell Rubbermaid

Growing Up investments provide the infants and children who use their products tools to succeed in adulthood. Emphasis is placed on in-classroom programs for children from birth to graduation such as accredited child development and pre-school programs and K-12 in-classroom programs such as Junior Achievement and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).

Oracle

Oracle Academy provides software, resources, & training to students & faculty to educate them on computer literacy to help gain skills for varous jobs.  Introduction to Computer Science courses are free while Advanced Computer Science & Enterprise Business Applications are discounted.

Owens Corning

“A Raindrop’s Journey,” promotes reading and awareness of the environment for elementary students, Junior Achievement, Adopt-A-School, and Internships are ways in which Owens Corning contributes.

Pioneer Natural Resources

Pioneer partnered with Trinidad State Junior College to offer training in Welding, Diesel Mechanics and Heavy Equipment Operations to meet employment needs of the industry and to prepare students for entry-level employment in the field of coal bed methane production and related industrial construction

Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation

The Polo Adopt-A-School program supports a number of programs to further the education children and help them pursue careers. A selection of projects supported by the Polo Ralph Lauren Adopt-a-School program are: Polo Ralph Lauren Summer Intern Program; Polo Fashion School; Summer Career Education Speaker Series; Technical literacy project; HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention; Saturday and After-school Tutoring Super Scholars Program; Elementary technology based-reading project

Qwest

Qwest has teamed up with Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain Inc. to bring financial literacy & work readiness skills to 2,150 students from the Denver metro elementary & middle schools.

RadioShack

RadioShack supports the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) which provides operating funds and technology enhancement services for 39 member historically black colleges and universities, scholarships and internships for students at about 900 institutions and faculty and administrative professional training.

Since 1993, RadioShack has been a sponsor of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE). SIFE is working in partnership with business and higher education and establishes student teams on university campuses. These teams, led by faculty advisors, are challenged to develop community outreach projects that reach SIFE’s five educational topics (market economics, success skills, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and business ethics).

Raytheon

Raytheon’s MathMovesU program is designed for middle school students in math by illustrating the connection between math, their passions and interests and careers. The focus of the program is the MathMovesU.com website, which targets middle school students. Raytheon encourages its employees and communities to get involved by spreading the word about MathMovesU.com, hosting live MathMovesU events and promoting the program through local schools.

Scholastic

Scholastic partners with organizations and corporations that distribute books to children or families free of charge. The organizations or corporations receive deep discounts and free shipping on books to distribute.

The Lee y serás program helps Latino children realize their potential as strong readers and learners. The program includes a multi-media toolkit for community organizations, workshops for parents and caregivers, training for community leaders to support and advocate for Latino children, and online resources to engage families and communities nationwide.

YouInnovate21.net features standards-based content to help young people understand the relevance of STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) in their lives now and encourages them to plan for their future. It provides a career pathway guide for students, helping them understand what they’ll need to know and where in their state they can learn it.

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, through The Sun Academic Initiative (SAI), provides educational institutions with free on-line course material, access to web-based training and discounted certification to introduce students to Sun technologies. The SAI program is a great way to enhance schools technical curriculum and provide faculty and staff with the opportunity to update their skills – all at no cost.

Symantec

Symantec identified contributing to several special interest areas, including: providing equal access to a quality education for all students; encouraging more students to pursue careers in math and science; and increasing the diversity of our future workforce.

Textron

Textron’s grants support programs for school-to-work and welfare-to-work programs, job training for underserved audiences, literacy and ESL (English as a Second Language) programs.