SanDisk Community Sharing Program

SanDisk is committed to supporting programs and organizations that address the needs of communities where our company has a significant presence. We strive to be exemplary corporate citizens within the global community.

Our Community Sharing Committee acts as a facilitator to carry out this vision by making donations to non-profit organizations and community groups whose efforts align with SanDisk's core values -- innovation, focus on execution, adaptability and agility, teamwork and integrity.

To maximize the results of our efforts, effective January 1, 2012, we will focus our program support on the following areas:

K-12 Education - In and/or out of school programs with strong impact and special emphasis on:

  • Enhancing academic performance, technology skills and/or social development of students from underserved communities.
  • Curriculum development, innovative instruction methods, hands-on student projects and infrastructure improvements to advance the quality of education.
  • Providing teachers with professional development, materials and support.
  • Enhancing the teaching and education of students.
  • Programs utilizing the arts to enhance the quality of education provided.

Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), specifically through:

  • Curriculum development, innovative instruction methods, hands-on student projects and infrastructure improvements to advance the quality of education.
  • STEM programs targeting secondary, junior or community colleges, public and private four-year colleges and universities, graduate and professional schools, and technical and specialized schools. This area also includes departmental grants and special project or research grants.

Children's/Youth Issues (Health and Welfare) addressed through programs that provide services to children in the communities where we have a significant presence and that are focused on:

  • Meeting young people's maximum health potential through improved access to quality health care and health promotion (including public health, oral health, mental health, primary health care, preventive medicine, community health, obstetrics and nursing).
  • Demonstrating innovative and effective service delivery and community support for disadvantaged children and families.
  • Directing services for children who are victims of abuse or neglect.
  • Addressing hunger and homeless assistance for children and their families.

Read about the SanDisk Foundation's principles and goals here

Our Competitive Grant Application and Process outline is available in Word or RTF formats.
Access our application FAQs here.

For additional assistance, please contact our Community Sharing Department at communitysharing@sandisk.com