Intel strives to improve the quality of life in the community by actively seeking opportunities to support local projects and issues. Through the Intel Involved volunteer program, California employees volunteered over 61,000 hours in the educational community in 2005–2006 school year. Intel Folsom employees also donated over USD 1.7 million to local non-profits in 2006–2007 through the annual United Way campaign–the most ever given through a workplace "giving campaign" in this region!
Kid to Work Day
More than 1,500 kids, ages 8–18, attended the 2007 Kid to Work Day event at the Folsom site in late June. Roughly 450 Intel volunteers offered 17 interactive workshops, ranging from how to build a computer chip with Play Doh to how to create your own website. Other attractions included 7 walk-in events throughout the day and a special appearance during the lunch hour by Dinger, the River Cat's mascot. Kid to Work Day helps kids form a link between what children learn in school about math, science and technology and how it can be applied in the real world.
PC Pals
During the 2006–2007 school year, over 750 area students at 27 different schools participated in PC Pals, Intel's e-mail mentoring program. The same number of Intel employees volunteered to correspond by e–mail with local students twice a week, helping them with homework, providing encouraging words of support and stressing the importance of staying in school for future success. Twenty schools in the greater Sacramento region participated in the program and earned Volunteer Matching Grant funds.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a national organization whose goal is to provide housing for low income families. Since 1997, numerous Intel employees have volunteered one day each month to help build Habitat for Humanity homes in the Sacramento region.
Rebuilding Together
Rebuilding Together is a national program through which more than 250,000 volunteers spend one Saturday in April each year renovating homes and community facilities for low income, elderly and disabled residents. On April 28, 2007, fifty Intel employees from Folsom joined by 20 friends and family helped rehab a home with interior and exterior house painting, repairing a wheel chair ramp, landscaping the backyard, replacing the water heater and gas range and more.
Applying for a grant
Intel's key contribution focus areas include: education programs that support science, math, engineering and technology; environmental organizations such as nature conservatories; community and human service organizations that support a broad range of services with a priority in at–risk youth programs; and civic programs and community events that celebrate our local cultural heritage and enhance the quality of life in our communities. Intel Folsom/Sacramento Corporate Affairs does not support fund raisers, religious or fraternal organizations, for–profit organizations, requests from individuals for personal needs, private schools, capital projects, and sporting events. Nonprofit organizations seeking support from Intel Folsom/Sacramento can apply for a grant using the contribution guidelines. Complete instructions and required documents are included in the guidelines.
Applications in the Folsom area are evaluated on a competitive basis each quarter. The quarterly submission deadlines are February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1. When the first falls on a weekend, the deadline is automatically pushed to the next business day. Proposals must be submitted no later than 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
