Our company supports the Canadian communities where we operate and contributes to a wide range of programs and organizations that focus on basic human needs, education and training, and capacity building. Chevron has been working with some of its community partners for more than 20 years and will host the 25th annual Chevron Science Olympics in 2012.
Chevron sponsors more than 20 programs and organizations. Examples include projects that teach leadership skills to First Nations youth and community leaders and agencies that address early childhood literacy in Calgary, Alberta, and youth homelessness in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
One such sponsorship supports the international award-winning Chevron Open Minds School Program®, which gives children and their teachers a weeklong hands-on learning experience tied directly to curriculum objectives. It takes place at a community site such as a zoo, museum, historical park or science center. Chevron sponsors three Open Minds sites in Calgary, one in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and another in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Capacity-building programs ensure that people and organizations are trained and equipped for success. For example, Chevron supports the Stella Burry Foundation in Newfoundland and Labrador. This foundation provides low-income clients with training in work skills and basic life skills. The Chevron Tooth Trolley helps underprivileged children from immigrant families get basic oral health assessments from volunteer dentists and dental hygiene students from Vancouver Community College.
Chevron is a strong advocate of involving employees in community engagement. The company sponsors the Volunteer Calgary Leaders in Employee Volunteering Awards, which have recognized excellence in workplace volunteer programs since 2000. The company also supports employees and retirees who volunteer through company-organized initiatives or projects they work on in their own time. In addition, Chevron offers time off for volunteering as well as matching grants and grants for accumulated volunteer time.
In 2009, Chevron added Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador to its University Partnership Program. It is the first Canadian university to be included. Through this partnership, the Chevron Process Engineering and Design Research Lab will be established at the university.
In 2010, Chevron and the Research & Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a $1 million partnership to create a Chevron Chair in Petroleum Engineering at Memorial University. The chair and a research program will focus on one or more of the following areas: reservoir engineering, numerical simulation of reservoirs, complex well performance modeling, advanced well design and construction.
Updated: March 2011
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