Corporate responsibility is the approach that successful businesses take when it decides to make a financial commitment to the community where it's headquarters are located or where it has operating locations.
The corporations that award grants are:
Selected Corporate Funders
AT&T Foundation
The AT&T Foundation site features information about a variety of educational initiatives and grant opportunities. Applications and guidelines available online. AT&T also supports the AT&T Learning Network (http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/).
Cisco Systems
Cisco provides funding to nonprofit organizations that support schools and educational programs focusing on technology education for students and teachers.
Proposals accepted by invitation.
Citigroup Foundation
Supports early childhood learning programs and K-12 education programs in low-income areas.
EDS Technology Grant Program
EDS helps K-12 schoolteachers purchase information technology products and services that will improve their pupils' ability to learn. Grants are awarded to teachers through their schools; to be eligible, the school must be within a 50-mile radius of a sponsoring EDS facility.
ExxonMobil Foundation
Offers support through three education programs: Mathematics Education; Elementary and Secondary Education; and Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Application guidelines and contact information available online.
IBM Corporation
IBM makes grants through a number of programs that focus on using technology to encourage school reform at all levels. While unsolicited grant proposals are not generally considered, Big Blue participates in several community and national education initiatives with a range of nonprofit organizations.
Intel Foundation
The Intel Foundation funds science, math, and engineering programs as well as programs that encourage women and minorities to pursue careers in the areas of science and engineering. Applications are available online for the company's national and community grants programs, as is information about fellowships and scholarships sponsored by Intel.
MCI Worldcom
MCI Worldcom's education efforts are focused on the Marco Polo program, which provides free standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom.
Grant applications available online.
NEC Foundation
Supports science and technology education, primarily on the secondary level, as well as the use of technology to help people with disabilities.
Toshiba America Foundation
Dedicated to improving education in the United States, especially in the
areas of science and math.
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