Intel Corporation

As a global leader in technology and a company reliant on a skilled workforce of engineers and innovators, Intel understands the important role that education plays in fostering such talent. Accordingly, Intel’s primary philanthropic focus is on improving science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education through the effective use of technology. In 2008, Paul Otellini, Intel’s President and CEO, made the largest long-term grant to education in the company’s history by approving a $120 million, ten-year commitment to engage more young people in math and science and prepare them for addressing global  challenges in innovative ways. In the past decade, Intel has invested a total of over $1 billion and its employees have volunteered close to three million hours towards improving education.

INTEL® TEACHIntel® Teach helps teachers engage students with the effective use of technologies, preparing them to succeed in an increasingly complex work and life environment.

General Mills, Inc.

As the world’s sixth-largest food company, General Mills is dedicated to alleviating hunger and improving nutrition in some of the poorest nations in Africa and elsewhere around the globe. The company strategically donates 5% of pre-tax profits and engages 82% of U.S. employees in volunteer activities. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2006, General Mills’ Chairman and CEO Ken Powell heeded the call of a group of CEOs and public leaders urging attendees to take action against global hunger. He returned to General Mills and immediately focused on driving the development of a strategic platform for the company in Africa.

GENERAL MILLS IN AFRICAMalawian men catch fish with a trawling net.  This tilapia pond is one of several in Malawi funded by General Mills.

The Boston Beer Company

It was despite many seemingly insurmountable obstacles that Founder and Brewer Jim Koch launched The Boston Beer Company 25 years ago. Today, it is the very same spirit of perseverance that drives the company’s philanthropic strategy–which celebrates, honors, and seeks to empower “the underdog.”

SUPPORTING ENTREPRENEURSCharlene O'Garro receiving the first check from the Brewing the American Dream find from Founder Jim Koch at the Samual Adams Boston Brewery on June 30, 2008.

Partners In Health

After the Soviet Union’s collapse, a rapid increase in Russia’s incarceration rate combined with the deterioration of its tuberculosis care and control systems led to an outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). In response, Eli Lilly and Company, understanding that the problem was too complex to be tackled by one company alone, established the MDR-TB Partnership, investing $135 million into a public-private affiliation of twenty-two organizations dedicated to eradicating MDR-TB. In 2001, in collaboration with this partnership, Partners In Health (PIH) assumed primary clinical responsibility for the first on-the-ground MDR-TB project in Russia.

PARTNERS IN HEALTHClinicians in Russia work on laboratory results for MDR-TB patients.  The Lilly-PIH Partnership has enabled PIH to conduct groundbreaking research and provide treatment to thousands of patients.