Intel strives to improve the quality of life in the communities where we live and work by encouraging Intel employees and retirees to volunteer through the Intel Involved program. Find out more about what programs Intel supports near you, or learn more about Intel's grant guidelines.
The Intel Foundation matches the time that Intel employees and retirees spend giving back to our schools with a cash donation. For every 20 hours that Intel employees spend volunteering for our schools, the Intel Foundation will match those hours with a grant of $200. The volunteer hours of all Intel employees at each school are accumulated to determine the total annual grant for that school. It's that simple.
Private, as well as public, schools are eligible. They must be legitimate, tax-exempt, non-profit schools that meet the IRS regulations and must not practice discrimination. Volunteer activities that do not qualify for the matching grant include: fund raising events; coaching athletic teams; attending parent club meetings or parent-teacher conferences; and religious instruction.
Intel Computer Clubhouse, Intel Oregon Information Center tour guides, Web Wizards, Intel Computer Clubhouse Mentors, and CREATE programs described below earn Volunteer Matching Grant dollars for participating schools.
Help students learn about the wonder of the microprocessor and the career opportunities that await them in the high-tech field. Guides introduce students to Intel and the high-tech industry during a two-hour tour. Program targets 5th through 9th grade classes from the Metro area. Tours are given during the school year at the Intel Oregon Information Center located at Jones Farm in the Conference Center. Training is provided.
Clubhouse mentors work with young people from under served areas as they explore their desire to learn about technology. Mentors, like club members, are diverse in age, background, interests and technological experience.
Mentors are generally asked to:
Orient and welcome new members
Offer specific guidance in areas of expertise
Provide general help
Support members in thinking about college/career opportunities
Be available for two hours a week for at least six months
Mentors can learn about the equipment with the kids. It's a great opportunity to support learning, help youth discover their interests, and create a learning environment where young people develop technological fluency.
Intel Computer Clubhouse locations:
The Salvation Army
5335 N. Williams
Portland, OR
503-493-3925, x17
Beaverton PAL
12500 SW Allen Blvd.
Beaverton, OR
503-469-9137
Start Making A Reader Today (SMART) is an elementary school reading program that pairs and adult one-on-one with a K-3rd grade student to provide mentorship and instill a love of reading and a joy for books. The program supports its goals by providing children with new books of their own to take home and share with their families. Volunteers commit to spending one hour a week reading to two children for 30 minutes each. Books are provided by SMART and by Intel's monetary donation to the SMART program. Washington, Multnomah, and Clackamas schools need you.
Tech Wizards is designed to help Latino youth succeed in school and in life by providing mentors and instructors to teach basic computer competencies, web page design, computer system management and life skills. Web Wizards also enhances inter-cultural competencies between youth and the community through the use of technology and spreads technology skills to the community at large by providing Tech Wizard volunteers at partner sites.
Intel awarded over $250,00 in grants to the Tech Wizards program in Oregon, and is supported by the Intel Oregon Latino Network.
Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program
Intel supports an Oregon program designed to spark children's interest in engineering and robotics technology. The program recruits adults to mentor and coach youth participants in the "how to's" of building a LEGO* robot. The Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program (ORTOP) is a statewide program designed to teach students of ages 9 through 14 to use math, science and engineering to solve real-world problems. The group holds regional tournaments around the state in December and teams that qualify compete at the Intel Oregon State Robotics Tournament held in January at a Portland-Metro area location. The program attracts over 3000 Oregon youth to its program, and September through November finds girls and boys from all around Oregon learning how to apply math, science and technology applications to the challenge of building a robot designed to solve a multi-step challenge. ORTOP team members don't need to be geniuses or techno whizzes. They just need to be willing to get together a couple times a week with their teammates and a coach and work together to build a robot they can take to a local tournament and hopefully onto state. To learn more about this program, visit www.ortop.org.
CReATE needs volunteers who are interested in providing basic tutoring, or ESL tutoring to students attending this alternative high school. They also need help managing the PC's and teaching students to use them. Volunteer hours are flexible Monday through Thursday.
More information: Carmen Wier at 503-359-1663; 2701 Taylor Way, Forest Grove
Saturday Academy Classes and Workshops
Classes and workshops are hands-on enrichment activities for middle and high school students taught by community professionals in their own communities after school and on weekends. Help students explore their interests. Class material is provided. If you would like to create class curriculum, Saturday Academy is interested in your proposal.
University Park Community Center
The University Park Community Center (UPCC) in Portland is a technology center sponsored by the Intel Foundation and Network of Intel African American Employees, an Intel employee group. The UPCC mission is to serve the community of North Portland in computer education. Intel employee volunteers spend time as class instructors, instructor assistants, mentors, staff and network and workstation support.
More information: Karen Burt, 503-832-3631
Community Action Organization
Community Action is a local private 501(c)(3) charitable organization that exists to ensure low-income children and families in Washington County have a place to turn for help as they strive to get back on their feet and achieve a better life. As part of the community's critical safety net, Community Action brings hope, help and change to 12,000 families every year. They imagine a community where, when hardship hits, no family, child or elderly person will face eviction, hunger, loss of utilities or go without healthcare because critical help will always be here.
Intel is partnering with Community Action to upgrade its computing facility and provide expertise in the implementation of new information technology. Intel volunteers reinforce Community Action's commitment by spending time volunteering.
SOLV, Intel and other Washington County partners help volunteers improve livability by cleaning and restoring the natural environment. Projects include watershed restoration, park enhancement, non-profit and elderly home beautification, and Tri-met bus route clean up. This event is usually held in September.
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) volunteers are needed.
Public service positions in OMSI's nine science areas and on the USS Blueback.
Data entry and clerical support
Science mentors that guide School-to-Work teens
Mainstream or Special Event programs
OMSI has lots of great opportunities and their program needs change frequently. Memberships and opportunities to participate in OMSI staff excursions are available as a tangible benefit to those who serve regularly.
