Each business site holds factory tours and hands-on learning sessions for area residents, municipalities, public organizations, and schools. The Tokyo Branch welcomed some 300 visitors to its science experiment classes in fiscal 2007, and the Advanced Development & Planning Center in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture, had about 1,600 visitors on its parent-child study tours held during the spring, summer, and winter vacation periods. Also, the Tokyo Branch and the Yaita Plant in Tochigi Prefecture offered experiential work-study sessions and internships targeting elementary through senior high school students. Schools use these programs as part of their education or as career guidance.

The Kameyama Plant in Mie Prefecture sends employees to serve as instructors for special science classes in local high schools. In fiscal 2007, these instructors gave presentations on the flow of wastewater recycling and resource recovery at the Kameyama Plant, and on the ideal environmentally conscious factories of the future. Students also had the opportunity to get hands-on experience through experiments on wastewater cleanup technologies.

Sharp Festivals (cultural and sports programs) are held at each site to deepen the exchanges between employees and their families, and local residents. In addition to presentations on business activities such as a recent environmental panel exhibition at the Higashi-Hiroshima Plant, Sharp Festivals are increasingly being held in conjunction with community events and are becoming an annual happening on many community calendars.

Sharp has recreation fields, tennis courts, gymnasiums, and other recreational facilities that it opens to local athletic groups and organizations, such as youth baseball, soccer teams, and athletic meets.

Each site participates in volunteer activities promoted by local municipalities and citizen organizations, and independently undertakes its own cleanup activities of roadways and rivers/streams in the vicinity of the site. The Mie Plant has an on-going campaign along with local residents to clean up the Sana River, which flows near the plant. (In fiscal 2007, approximately 400 people took part.) Other sites also have on-going volunteer programs, such as planting the flowerbeds around the Tokyo Branch office, cleaning up the area around the train station by employees of the Fukuyama Plant in Hiroshima Prefecture, and cutting invasive grasses in the native habitat area of the ehime-ayame, a threatened species of iris in Japan, by the Mihara Plant in Hiroshima Prefecture.

Since April 2006, Sharp Yonago Corporation has participated in the Naka-Umi Adopt Program, a cleanup effort for this coastal lagoon that touches the borders of both Tottori and Shimane Prefectures. This campaign was introduced with the goal of achieving a swimmable Naka-Umi to celebrate the designation of Lake Naka-Umi and Lake Shinji as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention in November 2005. Sharp Yonago is responsible for a lakefront area located within Minatoyama Park in Yonago City, and is involved in an ongoing cleanup and beautification campaign. In fiscal 2007, a total of three campaign events were held with the participation of about 150 employees and family members. Everyone worked up a brisk sweat gathering trash and garbage such as dead branches and plastic materials that had washed up along the shoreline.