Fuel Your School is an innovative collaboration with DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students learn. In 2012, the Fuel Your School program generated $4.49 million in funds that benefited local classroom projects at 1,733 K-12 public schools across the country and impacted 697,904 students.
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 contributed $1 for fuel purchases of eight or more gallons, up to a total contribution of $4.49 million, between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, 2012, at participating Chevron and Texaco stations in nine 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.
The program has grown each year to support students in communities where Chevron operates. In 2012, the program focused on schools in parts of California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas and Utah. Since its inception in 2010, Fuel Your School has benefitted 8,915 classroom projects at 1,924 schools.
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 all, Chevron has contributed nearly $100 million for education in the United States.
Program news and community information can be found at www.fuelyourschool.com and on the Fuel Your School Facebook page.
Updated: February 2013