Employee Volunteering and Giving
Dolby Cares, our community engagement program, mobilizes employees from locations around the world in pursuit of transforming our communities through volunteering as individuals, alongside their colleagues and teams, and through our Employee Networks. Partnering with educators and students, mentoring adults re-entering the workforce, and supporting children and families in need, are some of the ways our employees are creating an impact in our communities.
Throughout the year and during Dolby Cares Week, our annual global week of action held in April, employees participated in virtual and in-person educational sessions and volunteer events, addressing community needs, educational initiatives, and environmental causes.
Our Dolby Match program, which matches employees’ financial donations, amplified our employees’ impact, with employee contributions and company matching increasing in 2022. In addition to employees’ regular annual giving, Dolby employees empathetically respond to social, environmental, and humanitarian crises throughout the year through fundraising campaigns.
Our Impact
Social Impact Program Data, Fiscal Year 2022
Charitable Grants
Dolby’s Social Impact efforts focus on addressing social and educational inequities with the majority of our grant funding serving underrepresented groups including girls, women and people of color.
Our grants are aligned with our focus areas and support our communities around the globe. Some of our educational and community partners include Bay Area Video Coalition, the Arts Media and Entertainment (AME) Institute, the University of Sydney’s Women in Engineering Program, IGNITE Worldwide in the US and Poland, Girls Make Beats, Variety Boys & Girls Club, 826 Valencia, Code Tenderloin, and GRID Alternatives.
Inspiring the next generation of innovators
We support science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education initiatives aimed at students from primary to university education. Through financial investments and skills-based employee engagement, we encourage diverse voices from the next generation to discover how the power of storytelling unites an audience in a shared human experience.
We provide curriculum support and mentoring to educators, as well as educational opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to meet Dolby employees, learn about our technologies, explore the workplace and future career opportunities. Dolby’s Social Impact team recently launched a newsletter designed to provide K-12 STEAM educators, students, and non-profit organizations with a deeper connection to Dolby and insights/resources from the tech-entertainment industries. We invite educators to sign up for the distribution list here.
We partner with organizations in our local communities around the world, including the Bay Area Video Coalition, the Arts Media and Entertainment (AME) Institute, the University of Sydney’s Women in Engineering Program, IGNITE Worldwide in the US and Poland, and Girls Make Beats.
Addressing critical community needs
People and their stories are important to us. We enable amazing storytelling through our technologies. And we believe it's critical to listen to people in our local communities, hear their stories, and understand their challenges. Through our Dolby Cares program, we help build a brighter future for people experiencing homelessness and other challenges, by providing basic necessities, job-readiness education, mentoring, and support with partners that include Variety Boys & Girls Club, 826 Valencia, Code Tenderloin, and GRID Alternatives.
Learn more
If your organization is based in one of Dolby’s communities and your work aligns with our focus areas — inspiring the next generation of innovators or addressing our communities' most critical needs — we’d love to hear from you. Please send information about your volunteer opportunities and programs to us at DolbyCares@Dolby.com.
For more information on our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB) efforts, visit DIB @Dolby. For more information on Dolby’s environmental, social and governance efforts, visit Sustainability @Dolby.