Best Buy and DonorsChoose.org are pairing up to help bring tech to classrooms.
Community Relations
Today Best Buy released its fiscal year 2017 Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Report. What’s the big news? We set out to reduce our carbon emissions 45 percent by 2020 (over a 2009 baseline) and, at the end of 2016, we reached nearly 47 percent.
We are committed to addressing climate change. But that’s not all.
At Best Buy, we are focusing our efforts to positively impact the world in three areas: our communities, our environment and our people. It’s the work we call Best Buy for Good.
The Best Buy Teen Tech Center presented by Sony will have computers, cameras and a recording studio.
Best Buy is growing its network of after-school tech programs for teens by adding four new locations in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
That makes for 15 Best Buy Teen Tech Centers across the United States. The free centers are open year-round and give underserved teens hands-on access to the latest technology.
The new Minnesota Teen Tech Centers are located at:
- Brian Coyle Center (Minneapolis)
- Hope Community (Minneapolis)
- Keystone Community Services (St. Paul)
- YMCA (Downtown St. Paul)
They join the existing Teen Tech Center at the Minneapolis Central Library, which has been operating since January 2013.
Geek Squad Academy has served more than 26,000 teens since it began through free, two-day camps led by Geek Squad Agents and community partners. This season’s first camp begins Thursday in South Boston.
Organizations with a proven track record in offering after-school tech education programs are encouraged to apply.
Best Buy is a proud funder of Career Academies, an educational program in Minneapolis-St. Paul that will be expanding to help even more students.
The National Grant recipients give underserved youth access to tech education.
Fifty years ago, Dick Schulze opened his first electronics store in St. Paul, Minnesota, called Sound of Music. Under his leadership, this one store grew into the Best Buy that we know today.
Dick, Best Buy’s Founder and Chairman Emeritus, along with his late wife, Sandy, believed that a company is a family. They embedded the spirit of giving back and taking care of one another into the culture of Best Buy. Employees still feel that continued support from our founder today.
Best Buy was named the top St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign donor for the 2016 holiday season.
In partnership with The Clubhouse Network, Best Buy is seeking proposals from nonprofit community organizations to host new Teen Tech Centers.
Best Buy's signature community outreach program is looking for partners to host free two-day tech camps for youth.