What We Support
Our company, clients and communities benefit from a well-educated, skilled and informed population. We believe education is perhaps the most powerful tool for reducing poverty, improving health and advancing prosperity. We fund educational grants addressing education from pre-K through college.
With a globally recognized healthcare design practice, we value the importance of healthcare and healthy communities. Promoting healthy living at the community level brings the greatest health benefits to the greatest number of people. We fund grants that address active lifestyles, wellness education and preventative healthcare.
We promote the value of environmentally responsible practices to our clients, employee-owners and communities. We are all responsible for the use, stewardship and protection of our natural environment. We support grants that address restoration, renewal, conservation and sustainable best practices of our global resources.
Grant Spotlight: Oklahoma Connections Academy
The HDR Foundation's largest employee-sponsored grant was announced with a bang. Several, in fact. Teachers at Oklahoma Connections Academy thought they were gathering for a typical holiday party. Then Mike Walters, compliance business class manager, walked out with a giant check for $212,374. Confetti cannons punctuated the moment. The grant funded the Exploration Station — a customized bus with virtual reality headsets, forensic science kits, electronics and other science, technology, engineering and math activities to bring an experiential science classroom to online students across the state.
