Community Commitment

Community engagement is embedded in Sprint's culture. Throughout its long history, the corporation has passionately supported both local and national efforts to improve the communities where Sprint employees and customers live and work. Sprint's goal is to invest its philanthropic resources in the areas most meaningful and relevant for its business, customers, and employees as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Sprint has an extensive community-relations program including volunteerism, local community advisory councils, an in-kind donation and loan programs, the philanthropic Sprint Foundation, and national community partnerships.

Sprint's community investment is focused in Kansas City; Washington DC; Atlanta; Dallas; New York City; Chicago; Denver; and Los Angeles, but occasionally provides support for other communities when unique situations that tie together our business, customers and employees are presented.

In addition to these geographic targets, Sprint also focuses on particular social issues and giving categories. Sprint's national partnerships are focused on K-12 public education -- particularly character education and safety in our nation's schools -- and diversity. Local and regional investments support these areas as well as arts and culture and youth development.

Fast Facts

• Each year, Sprint employees across the country donate hundreds of thousands of hours of their time to serve the charitable and civic needs of our communities.
• The Sprint Achievement Program - Sprint's signature classroom-based grant program for educators - has awarded nearly $1,000,000 in grants to nearly 300 teachers in 30 school districts.
• Sprint and KaBOOM! have worked together to build more than 24 much-needed safe and accessible playgrounds in low-income and urban communities across the country.
• Through Sprint Project Connect, Sprint's wireless phone recycling program, more than $3 million has been raised for for charitable programs, and hundreds of thousands of phones have been recycled.
• Over the years, Sprint has donated more than $12 million to the United Way through employee and corporate donations.
• Sprint is the Kansas City and Washington, DC, sponsor of Connect with Kids, a multi-media character education program focusing on the well-being of children. We have helped to bring the reality-based program into hundreds of area schools through curriculum donations and into thousands of homes through local TV broadcasts.
• Each year, Sprint employees participate in a national food drive, donating thousands of pounds of food to their local food banks.
• Sprint executives support their communities by actively serving on hundreds of nonprofit boards across the country, providing their professional skills and expertise to help these organizations achieve their mission.
• Hundreds of Sprint employees volunteer their time as mentors through youth development programs like YouthFriends, Junior Achievement, and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
• Partnering with Rebuilding Together with Christmas in October, Sprint employees have refurbished more than 500 homes and community centers in over 40 cities across the country.

Community Investment Requests

Community Sponsorships

Sprint sponsors events and organizations that are important to the communities where our employees and customers live and work. Whether it's a symphony performance or a local festival, these partnerships provide Sprint the opportunity to connect with the community while expanding the reach of the Sprint brand. Sponsorship requests may be made for cash, in-kind and/or volunteer resources. Sprint focuses its sponsorship participation in the areas of K-12 education, youth development, arts & culture, diversity and civic infrastructure.

If your organization and request falls within these parameters, click on the following link to submit a community sponsorship request. Community Sponsorships Requests

Foundation Grants

The Sprint Foundation accepts grant requests from January through November each year. Grants for national partnerships are limited to those addressing K-12 Character Education, Safety in Schools and Diversity. Regional and Local grants focus on those areas as well as K-12 education more broadly, youth development, and arts & culture. Recipient organizations must be tax exempt and tax deductible, have auditable financial results and comply with all necessary laws regarding registration and reporting. Ineligible requests include those for political or religious organizations, individuals, international organizations and private charities or foundations. A more complete listing is provided in the Sprint Foundation section of the Sprint.com website. Generally grants are provided for specific program support not for operating expenses or events.

If your request meets the guidelines outlined above and on the Sprint Foundation web detail, click on the following link to submit a Sprint Foundation grant request. Foundation Grants Requests

In-Kind Donations

Sprint occasionally has non-cash assets available for donation such as calling cards, office supplies, used desktop computers, television sets, office furniture, fax machines and printers. These items come in on an irregular basis, but are often available for donation. If your 501c3 organization (or K-12 school) has a need for any of these types of items please submit a request. They will be filled based on the organizations fit within our philanthropic focus areas and availability. Desktop computers are only available for K-12 education institutions and must be for a minimum of 10. The computers are generally at least three years old and do not have any software or operating systems loaded. Sprint will generally not incur any shipping costs to deliver the items, so the recipient organization must be able to make pick-up arrangements.

Please click on the following link if you have need for some of the in-kind items we may have available for donation. In-Kind Donations Requests