Creating a Better Reality with the PTC Foundation in FY24

We believe that each of us has the Power to Create a better world by doing good. We call this “PTC for Good,” and the PTC Foundation is at the heart of our company’s fundamental philosophy of caring for our communities, employees, and customers.

As the philanthropic arm of PTC, the Foundation leverages resources to invest in value-driven programs and charitable activities all while encouraging employees to discover what they are passionate about to help drive meaningful change.

In FY24, PTC donated to many organizations with the help of employees from all over the world:

• 70+ employees nominated nonprofits for a PTC Foundation Impact Grant, which yielded 13 grantees
• 11 Employee Resource Groups each nominated a nonprofit organization that aligns with their mission for an impact grant
• 5 strategic grants by the PTC Foundation to organizations we have been supporting for years

This year, philanthropic grantmaking through the PTC Foundation and PTC Inc. totaled $655K for 29 organizations, globally, that support our three cause pillars. Check out the variety of community-related, environmental sustainability, and STEM education nonprofits below that will benefit from a financial grant.

FIRST Robotics: With a mission to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, FIRST provides mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills in a fun, competition-based environment. Learn more about PTC’s partnership with FIRST, here.

Latino STEM Alliance: Inspiring and empowering under-resourced youth to achieve educational and career success in STEM fields by providing meaningful and engaging STEM learning opportunities. Investment from the PTC Foundation will be used to support a new cohort of 24 students, including 8 new VEX robotics kits, staff program management costs, extra supplies, and replacement parts.

SAE Foundation: The Collegiate Design Series provides world-class, hands-on learning experiences for undergraduate and graduate students, developing and training the next generation of mobility engineers.

The Calculus Project: This nonprofit uses research-supported strategies to dramatically increase the number of Black, Hispanic, and low-income students who excel in advanced mathematics.

Ukraine Lyceum Angstrem School: In nine years, they’ve taught an estimated 17,000 Ukrainian children living in 37 countries all remotely. The school covers all subjects and disciplines required by the standard state curriculum, adapted for distance learning. They also teach optional engineering/CAD courses leveraging Onshape.

Asian Women for Health: This organization is dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of Asian women and people from diverse, underrepresented backgrounds through community engagement, education, and representation. This donation will allow them to continue offering Health Education Workshops and provide safe spaces for discussing Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander health and mental health issues.

Association for Aid and Relief Japan: Providing those affected by hardships such as—conflicts, natural disasters, and impoverishments—with the assistance they need since 1979.

Blacks in Technology Foundation: The largest community of Black people in the technology industry is “Stomping the Divide” by establishing a blueprint of world-class technical excellence through community-focused activities, events and outreach. This donation will support the upskilling of 15 members with training programs that include various learning paths.

Children’s Dyslexia Center Portland: Providing complimentary professional evaluations and appropriate instructions and tutoring for children with dyslexia.

City Year Greater Boston: An organization that sponsors young adults by providing educational support and serving as mentors to at-risk students in under-resourced schools.

Enabling Leadership: An organization with programs that intervene in low-income and under-resourced schools in Asia to enable children to develop important leadership and life-skills.

INROADS: This organization is dedicated to paving the way for diverse high school and college students towards successful careers through leadership development, paid internships, and mentorship. This support will help to provide leadership development, college preparations, and career readiness training to thousands of deserving diverse students.

4 Paws for Ability: Training and placing over 120 task-trained service dogs for children and veterans with disabilities each year across the country, enhancing their independence and quality of life. This grant will directly support the training, care, and placement of service dogs, enabling the organization to meet the growing demand and positively impact more lives.

GLAAD: The world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, tackling tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. This grant will support GLAAD’s blend of watchdog activities, behind-the-scenes and public-facing advocacy, outreach, workshops, and consultations, which correct misinformation and inspire policies and laws that advance equality for all.

Home Base: Committed to healing the invisible wounds for Veterans of all eras and their families through world-class clinical care, wellness, education, and research. This gift allows them to fund programs for survivors of military suicide, Families of the Fallen, and their intensive outpatient recovery SOAR program.

House of Friendship of Kitchener: Based in Waterloo, Canada, this nonprofit provides food, housing, addiction treatment, and neighborhood support to more than 42,000 individuals each year.

Junior Achievement USA: With proven lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship, they are positively impacting the lives of young people.

Kids Against Hunger Bay Area: Packaging and shipping highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and in disaster situations, as well as feeding hungry children in the US.

Open Arms of Minnesota: This nonprofit organization prepares and delivers medically tailored meals at no cost to the critically ill.

Pan-Mass Challenge: Founded in 1980, the PMC is an annual bike-a-thon that raises more money for charity than any other single event in the country. 100% of every rider-raised dollar goes directly to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for research and treatment.

Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre: Striving to ensure the best aftercare and rehabilitation of the Armed Forces of India with spinal cord injuries that they received while serving their Nation. The funds provided will be used for rehabilitation activities for the disabled residents.

PLAN International: Partnering with adolescent girls and their communities in more than 80 countries, this organization works to overcome oppression and gender inequality by providing support and resources unique to girls’ needs, ensuring they achieve their full potential with dignity, opportunity, and safety. This donation will support programs, innovation, and infrastructure required to deliver their programs to girls and children worldwide, in areas such as protection, education, health, sanitation, disaster relief, and economic empowerment.

Seven Hills Foundation: With over 235 locations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and eight countries abroad, Seven Hills is the premier provider of comprehensive support for people with significant life challenges.

Shanghai United Foundation: Creating a culture where participants can achieve personal and social value by engaging in effective philanthropy.

Teach Future China: Helping children in areas with under-resourced growth support systems grow up confident, able to learn, healthy, and happy.

TOM – Tikkun Olam Makers: The name means “to repair the world” in Hebrew and that’s what they do by creating and disseminating affordable solutions for people living with disabilities, the elderly, and the poor.

UP Education Network: They focus on taking the lowest performing schools in Massachusetts and transforming them into exceptional learning environments. Their mission is to create exceptional schools for students who are systemically furthest from opportunity.

Act for Tomorrow: An environmental organization that promotes a sustainable way of living by developing programs and projects on topics like environmental education, waste collection and recycling, water protection, afforestation, and community development.

Green Forest Fund: Planting new, ecologically sustainable mixed forests to preserve the natural livelihoods of people, animals, and plants and to contribute to nature conservation, biodiversity, and CO2 absorption.

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Thank you to our employees, volunteers, leaders, and the PTC Foundation for building up the communities in which we live and work. Together, the power of our collective impact has helped build stronger, more resilient communities. We look forward to seeing the continued impact of these grants!

Special thanks to Nicole Dwyer, co-contributor to this article.

Founded in 2018, the PTC Foundation is rooted in its mission “to create a better reality” by enabling communities to embrace technology through grants and in-kind software and empowering employees to positively impact their communities through volunteering and charitable giving and matching. The Foundation is focused on three core cause pillars: STEM Education, Community Support, and Environmental Sustainability.

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