The Boeing Company
Higher Education Grant
The Boeing Company partners with universities and higher education institutions around the world, with the goal of fueling the companies second century of talent and innovation by fostering world-class university relationships and delivering entry-level career programs like full and part-time internships, externships, co-ops.
Through the University Relations annual grant and the Boeing Business Contribution Sponsorship processes the company funds enrichment programs that increase access to education and ultimately cultivate a workforce for the aerospace industry. Please note, that the company has not released its charitable giving budget for 2025.
Below, you will find the 2024 unofficial guidelines so that you and your teams can start working on your proposals. Please review the link below and consider the following items when drafting your proposals:
Washington State: 2024 Grantmaking Guidelines
- Our Future: Create a cradle-to-career pathway to strengthen and diversify the pipeline of skilled workers entering today’s dynamic labor market. Place special emphasis on students of color and others from communities typically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Advance the 21st-century skills necessary to persist in and complete rigorous academic programs and gain family-wage employment. We support policy changes to practices that disproportionately affect students underrepresented in STEM fields.
- Our Heroes: Build better lives for transitioning service members, veterans and their families. We provide support for veterans and families from communities typically underrepresented in the military veteran ecosystem and those systemically disadvantaged by societal barriers.
- Our Home: Respond to the local needs of our community by making strategic investments that advance mobility out of poverty and improve environmental conditions. We place special emphasis on communities of color and other underserved communities.
GUIDELINES
The following requests are generally NOT accepted
- Capital Funding: Deans funds, discretionary funds, fundraising events, general operating expenses and salaries
- Research & Development: Dissertations, faculty and student research projects and medical research
- Other: Memorials and endowments, political Organizations, promotional items, religious activities, sponsorship of school athletics or fine arts programs and memberships
- Exceptions: The following type of funding requests must be in support of projects or programs that are within the approved funding categories and not on a stand-alone basis:
- Participation in competitions/conferences not aligned to focus areas
- Travel expenses