Visit our Education Outreach section to learn more about how we enrich our local schools. As school districts squeeze budgets and classes balloon to unprecedented sizes, teachers often find themselves using their own money to buy learning materials. In 1994, we initiated the EDS Technology Grant program to help defray costs and encourage teachers' creative learning solutions. Visit our Technology Grants section for further details on how grants are awarded and for information about this year's program. Each October, tens of thousands of EDS employees fan out in communities around the globe in a celebration of year-round volunteer service.
Projects are diverse.
For example, in South Australia, EDS volunteers set up an e-mail network, created a garden, painted, donated goods and cleaned the grounds for the Townsend House, an organization that benefits vision and hearing impaired children. The number of employees joining with family, friends, clients and other business partners on Global Volunteer Day continues to grow. Visit our Global Volunteer Day section to discover more about how we give back to our communities. The EDS Foundation was created to support EDS' philanthropic efforts in communities where our employees live and work around the world. The foundation directs the majority of its funds to programs addressing the digital divide, the access and technology gap that exists between the rich and the poor, minorities and majority communities, the connected and the unconnected.