School & Youth Organization Support
School Presentations
Refinery Engineers Anna Mayfield and Chris Lilley volunteered as judges at East Central's Science Fair.
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Each school year, Chevron Pascagoula employees visit numerous local classrooms to explain to students how the refinery operates and why basic subjects are important to a successful career – either with Chevron or any thriving business. Development Group employees, who provide training for refinery employees, make presentations at junior and senior high schools during annual Career Day activities. The multi-media presentations stress how important it is to a successful career that the students learn basic curriculum and how to work on a team.
Employees also are prepared to present more specific information in presentations to junior high school students involved in Technology Prep programs, and to high school students preparing for careers in Industrial Mechanics.
Generally, these are 1-hour presentations that include a question and answer period; however, presentations can be customized to meet the school program format or specific classroom needs.
To make arrangements for a classroom presentation, contact the refinery’s Public & Government Affairs Office at pasms@chevron.com
Chevron Humankind Program
Chevron Humankind is our new U.S. community involvement program. It's a flexivle and easy way for U.S.-based employees and retirees to support causes you care about. Choose a favorite nonprofit to help. In support of your efforts, we're providing $10 million in matching funds in 2008 - a potential $20 million to help nonprofit organizations. Learn more at www.easymatch.com/chevron
For more information, contact the refinery's Public & Government Affairs Office at pasms@chevron.com
Red Ribbon Week Drug Awareness Program
As the sponsors for area schools' Red Ribbon Week drug education program, Chevron Pascagoula employees provide more than 50,000 red ribbons to schools in South Mississippi and nearly 10,000 ribbons to schools in South Alabama.
Chevron employee sponsors deliver the Red Ribbons during the annual October observance to schools where their children are enrolled, or those schools where their spouses serve as educators. The school sponsors present the ribbons to their children's or spouses' classrooms and talk briefly to the students about the dangers of drug use.
Working with the refinery’s Public & Government Affairs Office, Chevron employees have sponsored the drug education school program since the mid-1990s.
For more information on the Red Ribbon Week sponsorship, please contact the refinery's Public & Government Affairs Office at pasms@chevron.com
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Keith Delancey (left) works with Dwight
Baker, another Soap Box Derby volunteer,
at the event in downtown Moss
Point. |
All-American Deborah Washington Memorial Soap Box Derby
Soap Box Derby is a
youth racing program held nationally since 1934 to promote
parent-child involvement, and to teach youngsters basic
workmanship skills, the spirit of competition and
perseverance to continue working on a project through to its
completion.
Chevron, Chevron
Pascagoula Refinery's Black Employees Network (BEN), and
Moss Point Active Citizens (MPAC) sponsor the annual Deborah
Washington Memorial Soap Box Derby, which is one of only two
sanctioned All-American Soap Box Derby events in
Mississippi, Louisiana and South/Central Alabama.
Formerly named the Magnolia State Soap Box Derby, the event
was renamed the Deborah Washington Memorial Soap Box Derby in 2002. Deborah, a
Chevron employee who founded and organized Moss Point's first Soap Box
Derby, had served as MPAC president and worked in the refinery's Procurement
Group. She passed away in early 2002 after a lengthy bout with cancer.
Pascagoula Refinery employee
volunteers traditionally help organize and run the local
derby, which is held annually in downtown Moss Point. The
Derby consistently draws an impressive field of young racers
and an enthusiastic crowd of spectators. Winners advance to
the All-American Soap Box Derby competition, held annually
since 1934 in Akron, Ohio. A portion of the sponsorship
funds helps defray expenses for the winners and their
parents to participate in the national competition.
Visit the All-American Soap Box Derby website at www.aasbd.org.
Chevron's Rich Shears checks out his daughter Kara's car at the starting line. |
Refinery Employee Joe Blackwell gives his son a quick pep talk before the start of the race. |
Youth Sports Organizations
Because
Chevron believes that team sports play an important
role in youth development, we support youth sports
organizations and high school athletic programs throughout
the Jackson County area.
All requests for team
sponsorship, or field sign/printed program advertising, must
be received by the refinery’s Public & Government Affairs
Office in writing, on organization letterhead. See
Refinery Contacts for mailing address and fax number.
The letter of request must include the organization’s
Federal Tax identification number.
Additionally, area youth leagues and high school athletic programs in which refinery employees are active are eligible Humankind grant funds. See ww.easymatch.com/chevron for more information.
Recreation League Sports
Chevron
sponsors a team, or purchases a sponsorship sign, in
every Jackson County-area youth sports league from whom
we receive a written request. Since we have a cap on the
amount we provide for league sponsorships, the
recreational leagues have the option to use the funds as
they see fit. Also, we support a number of Mobile and
George County area ball teams coached by our employees.
Because we provide annual
funds to every local league that we receive a request
from, Chevron DOES NOT sponsor All-Star and Select
teams involved in post-season play.
High School Sports
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Chevron provides financial support to area high school athletic departments primarily by purchasing ads in printed programs distributed at the games, or buying ads on scoreboards.
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For the Schools – Chevron's Robert Steiner
(left) works with East Central Schools'
Tommy Faggard and john Overstreet to load
surplus piping that the school system will
use to construct canopies to cover
equipment.
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Vicky Guy (left) of the Refinery’s Health and Wellness Program, donates some Health Quest surplus workout equipment to the local Army National Guard.
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Surplus Equipment/Material Donations
Chevron Pascagoula occasionally has surplus equipment and scrap materials that we donate to area nonprofit organizations.
The refinery donates scrap
carbon steel to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
(Jackson County Campus) and to local high school
vocational-technical programs for use in their welding and
pipefitting classes.
Also, hundreds of our surplus
55-gallon drums are donated to city and county recreation
departments for use as trash receptacles at ball fields and
parks. Recreational leagues and high school athletic
programs use surplus belting from our Coker Conveyer System
to line batting cages.
Storehouse items, including
safety glasses and plastic liners for 55-gallon drums, are
not categorized as surplus and are not among the materials
available for donation.
All requests for surplus
materials and equipment must be submitted to the refinery's
Public Affairs Group in writing and on the letterhead of the
nonprofit organization. See
Refinery Contacts for our mailing address (mail to
the attention of Public Affairs) and fax number. For
additional information, contact refinery Public Affairs by
email at
pasms@chevron.com.
For other
Chevron-sponsored programs that support education and
youth development in Mississippi, click below:
Teachers' Coastal Wetlands Diversity Workshop
Master Naturalists
Envirothon Team Competition
Conservation Field Day
Sparky the Fire Dog
Chevron Matching Gift Program
Special Events Trailer - For Community Use
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