As a leading safety and security technology provider, Motorola Solutions demonstrates a commitment to supporting first responders and improving public safety through the solutions it creates and the charitable initiatives it leads.
The company’s charitable arm, the Motorola Solutions Foundation, has donated more than $100 million over the last 10 years to causes that prioritise support for first responders and engineering education, helping to inspire the next generation of skilled safety professionals.
In 2025, the foundation committed over 126,000 volunteer hours and $13 million to support more than 1,100 charities and almost 6,000 global causes. As Motorola Solutions strives to make communities safer, its Foundation continues to invest in the next generation of safety and engineering talent.
Enhancing safety through community investment
The Motorola Solutions Foundation focuses its funding on a few key areas to support the future of public safety professionals and inspire the next wave of innovation leaders through educational initiatives.The foundation’s three primary focus areas are:
- First responder programming: The Foundation supports mental health, wellness, training and leadership development programs for first responders to help train public safety officials and improve the quality of their lives. In 2024, the Foundation awarded $1.6 million in strategic grants to support mental health for first responders and their families.
- Technology and engineering education: The Motorola Solutions Foundation invests in the future of public safety by supporting STEM programs in fields such as coding, robotics and engineering, particularly for younger students and underrepresented groups. In 2025, the Foundation awarded $1.8 million in support of educational scholarships.
- Employee and community support: The Foundation enables Motorola Solutions employees to give back to their communities through volunteering programs at locally organised service projects. In 2024, volunteers logged over 60,000 hours of service that resulted in $260,000 in charitable donations through the foundation’s annual Global Months of Service (GMOS) program.
Empowering safety and security professionals
The Motorola Solutions Foundation addresses issues related to its three primary focus areas in a number of impactful ways. Volunteer teams are empowered to build networks and create initiatives designed to provide people with the tools and knowledge they need to enhance safety and security operations in their jobs and communities.
The foundation strives to achieve its charitable objectives through:
- Annual grants: The Foundation awards strategic grants on an annual basis with a focus on first responder programming and technology, and engineering education. In 2025, the foundation granted $2.6 million in scholarships for future innovators and the children of fallen first responders.
- Community investment: The Foundation invests time and resources in action-oriented initiatives built to promote a sense of togetherness while making communities safer. Motorola Solutions empowers its employees to champion local causes and boosts donations through its Motorola Matches program.
- Disaster relief: The Foundation provides meaningful support in the form of safety technologies and funding to help address both human-made and natural disasters around the world, as well as assistance with identifying grants for fire, medical services, police and law enforcement agencies.
- Employee programs: The Foundation advocates for employees to engage in charitable initiatives by providing donations for employees’ volunteering hours and monetary contributions, as well as offering scholarship opportunities to the children of employees as an investment in future innovations.
- Volunteerism: The Foundation enables employees across the Motorola Solutions organisation to engage in volunteering opportunities in their local communities. By encouraging teams to join charitable initiatives, employees can help make people safer while enabling the company to implement philanthropy into its culture.
Investments in public safety: The Motorola Solutions Foundation’s impact in 2025
Through its 2025 grants program, the Motorola Solutions Foundation awarded around $5 million to a wide range of education initiatives intended to provide the next generation of security and public safety professionals with the necessary skills to make communities safer in the future.
In addition to providing security technologies like access control, video security and mission-critical communications systems, the Foundation is helping young people and under-resourced groups to build the problem-solving, management and leadership skills they will need to address the public safety challenges of the future.
Educational scholarships
In 2025, the Motorola Solutions Foundation awarded $1.8 million in grant funding to provide educational scholarships to individuals. These grants align with the Foundation’s priorities of providing technology and engineering education to future voices in public safety and security-related industries, and have helped to provide young people a reliable path towards rewarding careers.
The Wireless Communications Technologist Certificate program, run in collaboration with the UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, is just one example of the Foundation’s efforts. Through this one-year program, students are provided with hands-on learning, mentorship and real-world internship opportunities at no cost and with no requirements for prior STEM experience. The program is intended to bridge gaps in technology education and provide students with the critical skill sets they need to begin careers in the critical security sector.
Technology and engineering education for girls and women
As part of the Motorola Solutions Foundation’s 2025 strategic grants initiative, the company awarded $1.3 million in grant funding to programs that support girls and women ages 8–30 in technology and engineering education, helping to open practical career opportunities to women who desire to work in STEM positions.
Presently, women are significantly underrepresented in STEM education, accounting for only around 20% of bachelor’s degrees in computer science and engineering. Through its charitable initiatives, the Motorola Solutions Foundation is helping to elevate the level of female representation in STEM-adjacent fields.
After-school and in-school education for school-aged students
Another area of focus for the Motorola Solutions Foundation is providing managed support, resources and training to school-aged students. In this area, the Foundation’s 2025 grants initiative dedicated over $1.7 million in funding for after-school and in-school technology and engineering education programs.
In addition to technical training to spur interest and innovation in software development and data science-related practices, the foundation strives to provide school-aged children with the resources needed to nurture collaboration, leadership, team-building and other vital soft skills. By funding these education programs, the Foundation can help to inspire the next generation of security and public safety professionals.
Solving for safer: The Motorola Solutions Foundation’s annual grant initiative
The Motorola Solutions Foundation provides new opportunities for people interested in security-related careers and public safety professionals and their families to make their communities safer, address safety challenges and learn new skills each year through its annual grant cycle.
At the time of publication, the Motorola Solutions Foundation’s 2026 grant cycle has closed, with awards to be announced in August. The 2027 grant cycle is slated to open in late November 2026.
The Foundation’s annual grants can be used to fund a wide variety of initiatives, from the purchase of new access control and video security solutions to critical infrastructure enhancements and education programs for students of all ages.
Through this initiative and the wider work of Motorola Solutions employees, the business continues to back the next generation of safety and engineering talent and invest in the future of public safety.
