Michael Dell, the company’s founder and CEO, started the company in 1984 as PC’s Limited aimed at selling IBM PC-compatible computers. With the boom in technology, the company has grown. But the computer company goes beyond the normal computer-related operations and also focuses on its philanthropic activities through the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is founded and headed by the Dell couple. The foundation supports various programs intended to help the youth and also gives out help to students who are in need financially. Through the Dell Scholars Program, an initiative of the foundation, the company helps send many deserving students to college. The Dell Scholars Program recognizes academic potential in underserved and low income students. Offered to high school students participating in an approved AVID program, the Dell Scholars Program provides a generous amount of $20,000 for 250 scholarship awardees. It is a program that raises a donation of $5 million to support the company and the foundation’s advocacy for education.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation also ties up with other non-profit organizations that supports the provision of college education for many worthy students. One of these is Oakland’s Think College Now. Think College Now is a program for students from kindergarten through fifth grade that helps nurture the belief that college can be the next step after high school graduation for all students despite their current economic situation.

This continuous sharing and assistance provided by the Dell Corporation through its Dell Foundation is a testament of how the company aims to and succeeds in becoming a blessing to many of America’s youth.