At the heart of many effective community partnerships are the individual efforts and time that company employees give as volunteers in community service. Community clean-up projects and environmental conservation programs offer many different opportunities for volunteer projects. Many companies support volunteer projects such as repainting or refurbishing homes in the community for those who are having difficulty in maintaining their homes. For example, the Shell Employees and Retirees Volunteer Effort (SERVE) founded in 1975, matches employees, retirees and their family members with volunteer opportunities that best utilize their available time, talents and energy. As examples of environmental conservation, Shell is one of the largest worldwide participants in The Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, which works in conjunction with the Texas General Land Office’s Adopt-a-Beach program to remove trash from beaches while also collecting valuable information on the amount and type of debris. Thousands of ChevronTexaco employees have volunteered for over a decade to restore Yosemite National park’s oak woodlands, meadows and lakes.
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Fueling Our Community is API’s annual fundraising campaign. API employees can provide “fuel” to one or a combination of the community charities.
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The Power Is in Your Hands campaign was created in 2005 by 23 companies, trade associations and nonprofits to help educate consumers about the benefits of energy efficiency.
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The Everybody Wins! Power Lunch Program is a privately funded reading and mentoring program in which various professionals – from Congress, the business community, and nonprofit groups – read once a week with disadvantaged elementary school children during the lunch hour.
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Hands on DC is an all-volunteer project that creates better schools and brighter futures for students in the District of Columbia.
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While Anadarko employees work hard to find new energy around the world, they still find the personal energy to lend a helping hand. Every day, Anadarko employees are organizing projects to address a need they learned of in their community.
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Llandarcy refinery in Wales, UK is a 400-hectare site that closed in 1998 after 75 years operation. BP’s restoration of the former refinery site involves the removal of hydrocarbon wastes from large areas and there have been several initiatives to replace many of the refinery's lost jobs, creating conditions for new employment opportunities.
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Working with the municipality of Texas City, in the USA, BP has helped to create a valuable natural and community resource for local residents – setting a benchmark for successful community and corporate partnership in the process.
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The ongoing community-wide effort to clear illegally dumped household trash from the San Juan Basin has earned the 2004 Environmental Stewardship Award from the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC).
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In response to favorable experiences cited by employees in working on previous Habitat for Humanity homebuilding projects in Midland, Fort Worth and Houston, the Burlington Resources Foundation in early 2002 made a $1.2 million commitment to build five homes annually in key BR cities throughout North America - Houston, Midland, Fort Worth, Calgary.
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Each year the San Juan County United Way sponsors a Day of Caring to provide project-specific assistance to member agencies through the joint volunteer work of corporations and their employees.
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