Conservation at The Walt Disney Company Foundation

The Walt Disney Company Foundation has for more than 50 years provided cash grants to children's charities, charitable organizations and educational institutions,  particularly small, locally based groups providing services to diverse, under-served populations. The Walt Disney Company Foundation also promotes conservation and other Disney programs.

The foundation focuses its philanthropic efforts in areas where The Walt Disney Company has a major business presence, including Los Angeles and Orange Counties in California and Orange and Osceola Counties in Florida. Foundation grants support a variety of services, with the greatest concentration in children's charities, education, music and the arts, conservation, public health and general community services.

The Walt Disney Company Foundation also administers a matching gifts program designed to encourage Disney employees to support higher education and conservation. Contributions to eligible institutions are matched by the foundation, increasing the incentive for employees to make such gifts.

A scholarship program for children of Disney employees has been in effect since the Foundation began operation in 1951. This program offers a number of full and partial scholarships for students attending colleges and universities and working toward an undergraduate degree. The program also offers several $1,000 cash scholarship awards. The program is open to all children of full-time employees of The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiary companies based in the United States.