Launched in 2002, the Intel® Involved in the Community program started as a small-scale informal employee initiative, which focused on activities such as tree planting and blood donation drives. By 2004, Intel Involved was fully incorporated into the company’s corporate culture through the development of team volunteering activities, with programs focusing in the areas of education, technology inclusion and health.

Key initiatives include:

• Centre for Economic Empowerment of Intellectually Challenged (CEEIC)
  In conjunction with AMBA, a local NGO, Intel provides the intellectually-challenged community with training to learn computer skills. The Centre then helps procure employment from various companies for the participants, empowering them to earn a regular income. This initiative has now grown to 15 centres in 12 cities across the country.
  
  
• HIV/AIDS Awareness Program
  Intel has established a program for raising awareness levels on HIV/AIDS to high prevalence areas in the community. In partnership with NGOs, voluntary counseling and testing agencies, the HIV/AIDS peer education program has reached out to 15,000 adolescents in Bangalore.
  
  
• Environment Conservation
  Intel believes that climate change is a serious economic, social and environmental challenge. Activities include celebrating Global Earth Day, World Environment Day and the Environment Research Contest. Over the last five years, Intel employees have planted and nurtured more than 6,000 trees in and around Bangalore while the “Intel for a Better Bannerghatta” project resulted in a plastic and litter-free biological park and also created a learning space for the local community with the setup of information kiosks. Meanwhile, a Solid Waste Management Program in partnership with TERI (The Energy Resources Institute) is currently underway in Annasandrapalya, Bangalore.
  
  
• Intel Involved Volunteer Matching Grants Program
  The program encourages Intel employees to invest time in identified K–12 schools and NGOs. With every 20 hours invested by Intel employees, the Intel Foundation donates US$80 to schools and NGOs. Currently more than 15 schools and NGOs are part of this program in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai. Employee participation has doubled over the last two years with 91 percent of employees volunteering more than 36,000 hours.
  
  
• Volunteering for Bihar Flood Relief Coordination
  

  The devastating flood of 2008 inundated huge parts of north India, leaving millions of families homeless and needing relief aid. Intel India organised a company fundraiser, while over 20 employee volunteers worked to coordinate communications between relief workers. Using SMS-based communication, employees developed an application called RCMS (Relief Communication Management System), which enabled the United Nations to receive, track, and respond to requests from their relief workers based in different relief camps. Using RCMS, the UN could deploy aid in a data-driven manner, thus helping meet critical needs in quickly and efficiently.