Community

The Bucheondong Community Welfare Center in South Korea received a grant from onsemi Foundation in fall 2020. The funding will assist with the charity’s ‘Hope On for the Elderly Living Alone’ project, which has a goal of by 2023, of helping the elderly living alone form social relationships and support a happy life.

In 2019, onsemi awarded a grant supporting ZeroWaste Switzerland, an environmentally focused organization working to inspire and support communities, businesses and public institutions in Switzerland, to reduce waste at the source. This grant played an important role in developing and testing educational kits for schools centered on zero waste practices and waste reduction in the classroom in 2020.

Beginning in 2019, a substantial multi-year grant was awarded by onsemi to support Orbis International’s Good Sight, Good Life project, which aims to address visual impairments due to uncorrected vision problems and provide eye care services to disadvantaged children and elderly in Vietnam.

Children in the remote town of Villareal in Samar face severe malnutrition and are at risk of being infected with life-threatening diseases, including COVID-19, amid difficulties in getting access to clean water and toilets.

In 2020, the onsemi Foundation provided oral hygiene kits for a drive-thru “Dental Day” event for impoverished families through a grant and with the help of the Arizona Dental Foundation, an affiliate organization of the Arizona Dental Association.

For more than 10 years, onsemi has been sponsoring a holiday gift-giving event at Academia del Pueblo Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona. Academia del Pueblo (AdP) is a Title 1 school catering to a diverse student body from Pre-K to eighth grade.

The onsemi Foundation donated $5,000 USD to VinaCapital Foundation, which helped support 200 households and provide over 10,000 emergency relief packages for those affected by Typhoon Molave in Central Vietnam in 2020.

For 64 years, Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA) has been preparing kids in K-12 to succeed in work and life by giving them the skills needed to manage their money, succeed in their careers and think entrepreneurially.

In spring 2020, the onsemi Foundation provided a grant to Adelante Mujeres, an organization working to build a more just society by providing direct services to low-income, underrepresented communities of color throughout Washington County, Oregon. The grant monies supported the Building Chicas’ Bicultural and Bilingual STEAM Identity program, an impactful community initiative serving 600 Latina girls in grades 3-12.

The Senior Activity Center in Pocatello, Idaho is an organization committed to providing nutritional meals to seniors older than the age of 60. They were awarded a $10,000 grant from the onsemi Foundation in spring 2020. The grant was used to purchase food for the center’s nutrition program.

During COVID-19, onsemi held an electronics waste donation "drive-up” event at its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona on October 28, 2020. This event took place in conjunction with the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) day during global responsibility and inclusion week, in where showed and encouraged employees to share ON Semiconductor’s core values of respect, integrity and initiative.

onsemi employees based in Germany lent a helping hand to a local charity in Munich called, Salberghaus, which provides a wide range of inpatient, semi-inpatient and outpatient services, as well as in day-care centers for children between the ages of two weeks and 10 years, and their families.

Consistent with our company’s commitment to make a positive impact on communities and being passionate about supporting STEAM activities, onsemi’s employee resource group, STEM UP (science, technology, engineering and mathematics for underrepresented populations) collaborated with Arizona State University’s (ASU) New College and AI4ALL to host students from across the United States in the AI4ALL SummerUP Camp for the second year in a row.

STEAM Education is possible via grants like onsemi's to Treasures 4 Teachers, providing affordable school supplies and professional development opportunities for Arizona educators.

STEAM education is advanced via onsemi's grant to Arizona State University's modeling instruction program, enabling them to provide essential training for high school physics and chemistry teachers in Arizona.

At the Arizona site, employees have been supporting the St. Mary’s Food Bank to help combat food insecurity. Before the pandemic, a group of onsemi employees volunteered once a month at the charity to pack food boxes. With COVID-19, those organized events stopped; however, food insecurity did not. Pantry staples like peanut butter, canned goods, cereal, beans, rice and pasta were all in demand. To meet that need, ON Semiconductor’s Employee Activity Committee, one of the employee resource groups at the company, created an Early Morning Drive-Thru Food and Water Drive on July 9, 2020.

onsemi funds the Good Sight Good Life project by Orbis International at the Dong Nai Provincial General Hospital in Bien Hoa City, Vietnam, which will build a new Vision Center and expand access to vision and eye care services.

onsemi proudly funds local high schools microbiology research on antibiotic resistance as part of global initiative treat bacterial infections in humans more effectively.

onsemi donated 10,000 face masks in Phoenix, Arizona on March 26, 2020 to kick-off the city of Phoenix’s personal protective equipment donation drive for first responders as well as assist the largest health care provider in Arizona, Banner Health, with much needed supplies during the outbreak of COVID-19.

onsemi partners with Misericordia University to support STEAM based water quality research program in collaboration with local elementary and high school students.

onsemi continues decade-long giving partnership with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to inspire scientific passion in kids through their LabVenture Experience field trip program.

onsemi celebrates Random Acts of Kindness Day, a day dedicated to creating change through acts of kindness, with helping to provide affordable housing in Oregon.

For the past 10 years, onsemi employees in Phoenix sponsor Academia Del Pueblo for the holidays, bringing joy to more than 420 children this holiday season.

ZeroWaste Switzerland onsemi provided a grant in Q4 2019 to help them develop and test educational kits for use by children in classrooms to introduce them to zero-waste concepts. The educational kits included discovery sheets on subjects linked to waste and resources management, creative workshops sheets linked to the subjects and recreational games to learn by doing.

onsemi partnered with Het Ventiel, a nonprofit organization in Belgium dedicated to helping those with early on-set dementia by donating duo-bikes. Duobikes enable early dementia patients to continue cycling even when it becomes too difficult or unsafe for them to do so on their own. Research has shown the multiple benefits of exercise for those with dementia and onsemi is honored to help those suffering with this disease continue their active lifestyles.

onsemi helped fund a new STEAM program and project materials for the BroeBELschool STEM Academy in Belgium. At the BroeBELschool, they focus on the total development of the children. Through experiential learning, students discover their talents and learn how to use them optimally.

A massive fire broke out in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines in July 2019, leaving over 600 families homeless. In September, employees at our site in Cebu partnered with the mayor of Lapu-Lapu City and two barangay captains to give out relief donations such as hygiene kits and five kilos of rice to the families affected by the tragedy.

onsemi partnered with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to provide scholarships to academically talented students pursuing degree programs in engineering and information technology.

In April 2019, 80 volunteers from our Cebu, Philippines site planted 4,000 mangrove propagules in honor of Earth Day. This yearly activity was aimed at reviving the country’s coastlines. Planting the propagules helps prevent future environmental damage and builds resiliency against global warming.

onsemi employees were able to donate over €2,800 (approximately $3,147 USD) to the Salberghaus children’s home in Putzbrunn, Germany. The collection was part of their annual holiday charity drive. The giving program expanded on this donation with an additional $3,000 USD contribution. The children’s home applied the donation toward a special play area for children with severe respiratory conditions.