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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. 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 is open to all children of full-time
employees of The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiary companies
based in the United States.
We
recognize that the challenges facing wildlife today are numerous,
including habitat destruction, conflicts between people and animals
and lack of space for both. Whether they swim, fly, crawl, slither
or hop, these endangered animals are the focus of the Disney
Wildlife Conservation Fund.
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