COMMUNITY GIVING

Helping Our Neighbors

Giving Back to Our Local Community

The Laboratory strives to be a good neighbor within its community, offering a wide variety of activities to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. In addition, students of all ages benefit from training programs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has established.

Outreach does not stop with education — each year LLNL staff and Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC donate more than $3 million to local nonprofits, while hundreds of employees donate their time to local service agencies.

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Runners at the 2024 Run for HOME.
Since 1974, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign has provided employees with the opportunity to donate to their favorite nonprofits via payroll deduction.
The 2024 HOME logo.

The Annual HOME Campaign

In 2025, LLNL employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC, donated more than $3.76 million to charitable organizations via the Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign, the Laboratory’s annual employee giving program.

Participating employees can select charitable organizations for their donations from the IRS Exempt Organization Business Master file. Charitable organizations do not need to register with the HOME Campaign to be eligible to receive donations.

 

2025

$3.76M+ Raised

 

2024

$3.49M+ Raised

 

2023

$4.12M+ Raised

 

2022

$3.64M+ Raised

 

2021

$3.61M+ Raised

 

2020

$3.90M+ Raised

A group of employees dressed as witches behind a table with a sign reading Working Well @LLNL.
A person dressed as a Toy Story alien standing next to a person dressed as Buzz Lightyear.
Individuals dressed up in costume for the Run for HOME.
A person dressed as a hohlraum next to a person wearing a shirt that reads "Australian breakdance coach.
Members of LLNL's Community Cohorts dressed as Minions.
Runners in the Run for HOME 5k.
People dressed as characters from the movie Inside Out.
Costume contest participants.
LLNS Logo

LLNS's Community Gift Program

As the managing contractor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) is committed to being a valued citizen and good neighbor in its local communities.

In the spirit of giving, LLNS has established the LLNS Community Gift Program giving gifts totaling $200,000 annually to community organizations. Gifts can range in amounts from $500 to $15,000.

The LLNS Community Gift Program is open to publicly funded California K-12 schools, community colleges, 501(c)(3) entities and government agencies serving the Tri-Valley counties surrounding LLNL.

LLNS manages LLNL for the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. LLNS is comprised of Bechtel, the largest project management contractor in the United States; the University of California, the world’s largest public research institution; and BWXT Government Group, Inc. and AECOM, the top two DOE nuclear facilities contractors.

Visit the LLNS Community Gift Program Webpage

 

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