ExxonMobil believes supporting minority-owned and women-owned businesses builds stronger communities and produces solid business results. In 2001 our U. S. minority- owned supplier spending was $200 million and U. S. women-owned supplier spending also was $200 million. In the U.S., we fund scholarships for minority suppliers to attend the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. ExxonMobil has twice received the National Minority Supplier Development Council’s Corporation of the Year Award.