Community Relations

By Suzanne Hilker Community Relations Company News

18 Sep: Best Buy Awards $2 Million to Local Tech-Ed Nonprofits

As students everywhere are getting back to school, we know that not all teens are receiving the tech education they will need to be successful in future careers.

To address this gap, the Best Buy Foundation, through our annual Community Grants Program, awarded more than $2 million to 414 nonprofit organizations across the country. The nonprofits we support provide teens from underserved communities opportunities to develop tech skills that will help them prepare for post-secondary education and careers.

Our field employees across the country were highly engaged in the grantmaking process, providing insights on the needs of their communities and making funding decisions.

By Best Buy Community Relations Lifestyle

20 Aug: Andre sees himself in teens he helps in Oakland

Andre Anthony Jr. can spot potential the moment it enters the room.

Sometimes it’s hidden, but he knows what to look for: a younger version of himself who’s dealing with the same struggles he did.

Andre, an Oakland native and Best Buy employee, found a way past those challenges. Now he’s helping students do the same every week at the Best Buy Teen Tech Center in Oakland, California, where he volunteers his time to help at-risk youth in the local community.

By John Vomhof Jr. Community Relations Company News PR News Alerts

31 Jul: Teens get a voice in new Best Buy awareness campaign

Martaize “Tez” Smith woke up early in the morning to practice his lines before the film crew arrived at his home in north Minneapolis.

The 15-year-old high school student is an aspiring filmmaker, but that day he was going to be on the other side of the camera. “I was a little nervous,” he said. “That was something I’ve never done before, but I’m a performer. That’s me. That’s who I am.”

Tez is one of three teens who star in a series of new digital videos that highlight the youth served by Best Buy’s Teen Tech Centers, which provide teens from underserved communities around the U.S.

By Suzanne Hilker Community Relations Diversity and Inclusion Technology

04 Jun: Show your Pride with accessories from Best Buy

In support of Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community, Best Buy is bringing Pride-themed accessories to BestBuy.com this month.

Customers will find rainbow phone cases, watch bands and PopSockets.

Best Buy is a longtime supporter of equality, demonstrated by a perfect rating of 100 on the annual Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index and earning the designation as a “Best Place to Work for LGBT” for the 13th year.

To shop the pride accessories collection, visit BestBuy.com/PRIDE.

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By Suzanne Hilker Community Relations Company News Sustainability

07 May: Best Buy Named to 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for Third Year

For the third year in a row, Corporate Responsibility Magazine has named Best Buy to its list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens.

The rankings are based on 260 data points, including environmental management, climate change, human rights, employee relations, corporate governance, philanthropy and financial performance.

Our position has steadily increased over the past three years, from 100 in 2016, to 72 in 2017 to 59 in 2018.

Being a good corporate citizen is not only the right thing to do, it’s good for business.

By Suzanne Hilker Community Relations Company News Sustainability

01 May: Best Buy Now Accepting Applications for Community Grants

Calling all teen-focused nonprofits! We’re looking for local partners who can help us reach our goal of helping prepare 1 million teens from underserved communities for tech-reliant jobs every year.

Our Community Grants program awards up to $10,000 to nonprofits across the country whose programs focus on tech education for teens outside of school. Programs should include hands-on learning opportunities and engage youth in experimenting and interacting with the latest technologies to build 21^st century skills.

We know every community’s needs are unique.

By Suzanne Hilker Community Relations Company News Sustainability

05 Mar: Best Buy Announces 2018 National Grant Recipients

Best Buy recently set a lofty goal: to prepare 1 million teens from underserved communities for tech-reliant jobs each year by 2020.

We know this work is key, not only to help solve a skills gap, but to build a diverse talent pipeline for Best Buy and our partner companies. However, we can’t accomplish it alone. That’s why we’re partnering with nonprofits focused on tech education who can help us make a greater collective impact.

This year, we are investing nearly $1.5 million in our National Grants Program, funding nine strategic partners who provide curriculum and programming for our new Career Pathways program.

By Natalie Albers Community Relations Company News

20 Feb: With $20 Million Raised, Best Buy Remains Top St. Jude Partner

What does it take to raise $20 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^®? Generous customers, passionate employees and big hearts. At Best Buy, all three came together over the holiday season – and the dollars donated set a new record for our company.

In addition, we just completed our fifth season participating in the St. Jude Thanks and Giving^® campaign, and once again earned the top spot among all participating retailers. To date, Best Buy has raised nearly $60 million for St.

By Best Buy Community Relations Company News Sustainability

09 Feb: Best Buy Investing in Houston’s Post-Hurricane Recovery

About 150 8^thgrade students at Fleming Middle School in Houston got hands-on and learned how to build their own computers on Friday – with the help of dozens of Best Buy volunteers. It was the latest, but certainly not the last, example of Best Buy’s investment in Houston schools, nonprofits and surrounding community.

Best Buy employs thousands of technically skilled employees in the greater Houston area. Many of them were affected by Hurricane Harvey last August. While we addressed our employees’ immediate needs, we also knew the path to full recovery for them and for the Houston community would be a long one.

By Best Buy Community Relations Company News

07 Feb: Video: Teen Tech Center Introduces Young Women to Tech Careers

Best Buy and the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota are working together to bring technology and career training to young women in underserved communities. How? Through Best Buy Teen Tech Centers. Watch this video to learn more about how the recently opened Teen Tech Center at Hope Community in Minneapolis is inspiring girls to prepare for their futures.

By Best Buy Community Relations Company News Sustainability

09 Jan: Best Buy opens new Teen Tech Center ahead of CES in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — The greatest minds in technology have converged on Las Vegas this week for CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show. Media are flocking to see the shiniest new gadgets and innovators are showing off their latest creations.

But the biggest dreamers were 6 miles off the Strip, away from the glitz and glamor.

Tucked inside the Las Vegas-Clark County Library is the newest Best Buy Teen Tech Center, which officially opened on Monday. It’s the 14^th location of its kind in the nation.

By Natalie Albers Community Relations Company News Sustainability

03 Jan: St. Jude Treatments Turn Employee’s Grim Diagnosis into Bright Future

You can sum up Jeremy Finney’s approach to fighting cancer with this visual: At 16 years old, he rode his bike 8 miles each way to and from radiation treatments.

That’s grit.

He showed no symptoms of cancer until he woke up one morning with a grapefruit-sized tumor in his neck. As a swimmer, football player and cyclist, getting aggressive treatment for Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma was the last activity Jeremy planned to squeeze into his busy schedule. But the next day he had his first of several surgeries and started treatment.

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