Education provides the foundation for future career development. The oil and natural gas industry, as well as many other industries, see career development as a critical component of sustainable development. Companies and their employees partner with students and educators to provide an educated workforce for tomorrow’s businesses and to enable social progress. For example, Chevron supports an innovative community outreach program – called the SMARTS Program (Students Making A Road To Success) – that’s been honored by PEPNet, a U.S.-based best-practices-sharing network for nonprofit groups. SMARTS helps high school and college students earn money while learning about careers and getting real-world work experience. ExxonMobil promotes a program that focuses on improving mathematics, science and engineering education, with particular emphasis on creating opportunities for minorities and women, and is the largest supporter of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. ExxonMobil also provides an apprentice-training program in Nigeria that is creating skilled laborers while giving Nigerian students their first chance to join the global workforce. The Shell Youth Training Academy is an innovative and effective school-to-work business and education partnership designed to improve employment opportunities for youth through education and on-the-job training.
Answering a Call for Role Models
Anadarko teamed with Junior Achievement, an organization that brings professionals to school classrooms to teach basic principles of business and free enterprise to youngsters. Attorneys, engineers, accountants, landmen and other professionals from Anadarko entered the classrooms of an at-risk primary school and middle school in Conroe Independent School District in Texas.
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Community Assistance in Pakistan
BHP Billiton's Pakistan community program focuses on education to improve quality of life.
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Ladder Alliance Helps Women in Fort Worth Shelters
An innovative non-profit organization, the Ladder Alliance, founded by Sharon Cox in the ConocoPhillips (formerly Burlington Resources) Forth Worth office, is providing women referred from area shelters with training in office computer use, interviewing, resume and business writing, motivation and self esteem.
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Computer Literacy Improvement for Riau Students
Indonesia Business Unit. In Indonesia, Chevron-donated equipment and software are helping to enrich computer knowledge among students in Riau, an oil-producing and natural resources-rich province on the island of Sumatra. The Computer Literacy Improvement program calls for donating computer laboratories to local secondary schools and universities. With the support of local government and other third parties, training for computer lab management, operation of hardware and software, and trouble-shooting, also are provided.
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Music Competition for Young African-American and Latino String Players
To help young classical musicians in U.S. African-American and Latino communities, Chevron funds the annual Sphinx Competition for players of stringed instruments. This annual competition, open to African-American and Latino string players under the age of 22, is sponsored by Concert Competitions and Music Development, Inc., a nonprofit organization that encourages, recognizes and helps develop classical talent in minority communities.
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Chevron Donates to Saint Vincent’s Day Home Family-Literacy Program
To improve literacy among hundreds of Oakland families, Saint Vincent’s Day Home announced that Chevron is contributing $200,000 to its Bridging the Divides project, which provides early childhood education, adult literacy, adult basic education and skills training.
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Educating Youth in Aboriginal Communities
In the Mackenzie Delta of Canada's Northwest Territories, Chevron's Canada business unit is a major supporter of a vocational training program for high school students living in several remote communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Developing a Local Work Force in Indonesia
ConocoPhillips’ Indonesia business unit takes a multi-faceted approach to contributing to the development of a skilled work force in the country of Indonesia. The company has developed a one-year new engineer training program for engineering graduates wishing to prepare for careers in the oil and gas industry, whether with ConocoPhillips or another organization.
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Local Opportunities in California
In 2002, the Los Angeles, California, refinery implemented a program designed to increase local recruitment. The program is jointly sponsored by the refinery, the PACE labor union, an area community college and trade school, and a local community resource center.
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Education Around the World
In the U.S. we focus on improving mathematics, science and engineering education, with particular emphasis on creating opportunities for minorities and women. We are the largest supporter of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.
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New World in Nigeria
An ExxonMobil apprentice-training program in Nigeria is creating skilled laborers while giving Nigerian students their first chance to join the global workforce.
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Marathon Employees Provide Assistance to the Communities in Which They Work
Over the last 12 years, Garyville refinery employees have provided assistance in the development of the Industrial Mechanical Program at the Louisiana Technical College in Reserve, Louisiana.
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Serving the Community
Murphy Oil participates in a wide-range of company-wide efforts to strengthen the communities in which it operates. Murphy has carefully, thoughtfully and successfully built partnerships with civic, educational and charitable initiatives in communities from Arkansas to Ecuador.
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Sustainable Business Education
Petro-Canada is a founding sponsor of the Sustainable Enterprise Academy (SEA) based at the Schulich School of Business at Toronto's York University. SEA is North America's Premier Executive Education Program on sustainable development.
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“The Job Begins at Home”
Petro-Canada is the exclusive oil and gas industry sponsor of the ’Climate Change Action – the Job Begins at Home’ program, created and delivered by the Conservation Corps of Newfoundland and Labrador. The program is aimed at educating and inspiring residents of Newfoundland and Labrador to take action to reduce home and personal greenhouse gas emissions.
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Youth Training Academy
The Shell Youth Training Academy is an innovative and effective school-to-work business and education partnership designed to improve employment opportunities for youth through education and on-the-job training.
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Developing Skills for the Future
Chevron (and formerly Unocal) and its subsidiaries in the Philippines and Thailand are involved with International Youth Foundation (IYF) and two of its partners – Consuelo Foundation in the Philippines and National Council for Youth Development (NCYD) in Thailand – to promote life skills, academic success and job skills for youth in these countries.
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