Community Impact
We align what matters to our employees and the communities where we live and work with who we are and what we stand for as a company. We turn our values into action by investing in our local communities.
Applied and the Applied Materials Foundation deploy charitable and human resources around the world supporting organizations that offer services without discriminating against any group or individual.
Employee Engagement
Employee engagement amplifies our positive community impact, often via company-initiated events that connect our people with local non-profits.
Employees volunteer for a variety of causes of interest and can also maximize their personal charity support through our Matching Gift and Volunteer Time Grant programs.
The Generation Girl™ Initiative
We believe all girls should have the opportunity to realize their full potential. Through the Generation Girl initiative, a program of the Applied Materials Foundation, we are working with nonprofit organizations throughout the United States to help girls gain the confidence, skills and opportunities to succeed.
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Education
Education inspires young minds, opens new doors, and paves the way to more promising futures. We invest in efforts to increase access to high-quality education globally.
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Arts and Culture
The arts bring diverse people together in shared experiences that transcend boundaries and captivate the imagination. We support culturally diverse programming in the visual and performing arts.
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Civic Engagement
When people are actively involved in improving the quality of life in their neighborhoods, communities are stronger. We fund organizations that provide food and shelter, develop youth leaders and build the capacity of the nonprofit sector.
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Environment
We are all stewards of the Earth. Our environmental grantmaking focuses on youth education and community-based projects with the goal of building a more sustainable future for all.
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Grant requests focused on Education, Arts and Culture, Civic Engagement, and the Environment are reviewed semi-annually, following two submission deadlines each year: January 15 and June 15.
Applications for funding for the Generation Girl initiative are accepted each fall by invitation only and are due by September 15.
For More Information, Email us at
Community_Affairs@amat.com or
Applied_Materials_Foundation@amat.com
Ethics and Compliance
We are committed to upholding the highest ethical standards and ensuring compliance in the workplace and all business activities. Responsibility and integrity are core to our success and vital to creating a culture of mutual trust and respect with our stakeholders—including employees, customers, suppliers, competitors, and the public.
Applied offers a 24-hour global toll-free Ethics Helpline (1-877-225-5554) for reporting concerns. Callers may opt to remain anonymous.
Standards of Business Conduct
To maintain our strong and consistent culture of ethics, Applied Materials has a uniform Standards of Business Conduct (SBC) code that applies to our entire global workforce. These Standards help guide our employees and leadership to make decisions that are aligned with our values. The SBC is available to all employees, as well as to the public, in 11 languages.
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Ethics Training
All new employees must complete training on Standards of Business Conduct and anti-corruption within their first three weeks on the job. To continuously foster our values-based culture, we offer SBC training to all employees online, with additional specialized sessions for managers.
RESPONSIBILITY & INTEGRITY WEEK
Building on the success of our annual Ethics Week event in Santa Clara, Calif., our first all-virtual event was fully reimagined amid a global pandemic to bring relevant responsibility and integrity themes, resources, and best practices to our entire global workforce.
Ethics Survey
To assess our ongoing progress, we conduct a biannual, company-wide employee survey on ethics. The survey addresses five key attributes most strongly connected to reducing misconduct risk: comfort speaking up, organizational justice, tone at the top, clarity of expectations, and openness of communication.
Public Policy
We interact with government officials, elected representatives, and candidates to advocate for the company, our stakeholders, and the business and trade associations to which we belong. These efforts, led by the Government Affairs group, aim to help shape public policy on issues that affect our business and increase opportunities across the entire industry.
Political Contributions and Governance
Within the bounds of applicable laws, the Applied Materials, Inc. Political Action Committee (AMPAC) contributes to federal candidates and political action committees or party committees supporting issues of strategic importance to the company. Our State Contributions Committee oversees corporate political spending to advance those issues at the state and local levels.
AMPAC regularly files its contributions reports with the Federal Election Commission, and these are available online. While the company pays its administrative expenses, AMPAC is funded entirely through voluntary contributions from eligible employees. Its activities are overseen by the AMPAC Board of Directors.
Trade and Business Associations Membership
Applied belongs to various business and trade associations representing issues that align with our corporate strategy and the needs of our company, industry, employees, and communities. Our membership in a group does not imply that we endorse the entirety of that group's policy positions.
View or download our U.S. Trade and Business associations membership list