Fuel Your School is an innovative collaboration with DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students learn. Since its inception in 2010, Fuel Your School has benefitted 8,915 classroom projects at 1,924 schools. This year, Fuel Your School has expanded to help impact students in 19 communities, up from nine in 2012. In the U.S., 14 communities will receive funding through the traditional Fuel Your School program. Similar Fuel Your School programs are available in two additional U.S. communities, which are supported in part by Chevron with the help of local marketers. Similar Fuel Your School programs are also available in parts of Canada, South Africa and Malaysia.
Public school teachers post requests for materials for eligible classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org. Their needs range from pencils and microscope slides to live tarantulas for use with biology lessons. Through Fuel Your School, Chevron will contribute $1 for fuel purchases of eight or more gallons, up to a total contribution of nearly $7.1 million, between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, 2013, at participating Chevron and Texaco stations in 14 U.S. markets to help fund some of these teacher project requests.
Fuel Your School is designed to help support and improve critical education programming and materials, particularly in the STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering and math—to help prepare students for the growing number of technical jobs in the modern economy, including possible engineering positions at Chevron.
Fuel Your School has grown each year to support students in communities where Chevron operates. In 2013 the traditional Fuel Your School program will benefit public schools in parts of Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas and Utah. Chevron is launching similar programs in two more U.S. markets that are supported in part by Chevron, with the help of local marketers. In addition, similar Fuel Your School programs will also be available internationally, in Canada, Johannesburg, South Africa and Johor and Kedah, Malaysia.
Chevron works with local communities, governments and nonprofit organizations to increase learning opportunities for students and support the social and economic development in communities where we have significant business operations. In the past three years, Chevron has contributed more than $100 million for educational programs in the United States through Fuel Your School and other efforts.
Program news and community information can be found at www.fuelyourschool.com and on the Fuel Your School Facebook page.
Updated: September 2013