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. We have worked with some of our community partners for more than 20 years.
Chevron sponsors numerous programs and organizations that offer services ranging from teaching leadership skills to First Nations youth and community leaders to addressing early childhood literacy and youth homelessness.
We sponsor the award-winning Chevron Open Minds® school program, which gives children and their teachers a weeklong hands-on learning experience tied directly to curriculum objectives. Programs take place at a zoo, an historical park, a science center and two museums. Chevron sponsors five Open Minds sites: three in Calgary, one in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and another in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
We contribute to programs that help train and equip people and organizations for success. For example, our support for the Stella Burry Foundation in Newfoundland and Labrador helps provide low-income clients with work skills and basic life skills. Our Vancouver-based Chevron Tooth Trolley partnership with Vancouver Community College assists economically challenged children by providing their families access to dental care and gives dental students hands-on experience.
Chevron employees are directly involved in community engagement. The company supports employees and retirees who volunteer through company-organized initiatives and 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 2008, Chevron added Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador to the University Partnership Program. It is the first Canadian university to be included. Other funding Chevron has provided for programs at the university include:
- $50,000 to establish a process engineering design and research lab
- $500,000 for the Chevron Chair in Petroleum Engineering
- $500,000 for the Chevron Chair in Reservoir Characterization
- $2 million for undergraduate and graduate scholarships in engineering, earth sciences, business and economics
Updated: April 2013
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