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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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BHP Billiton's Pakistan community program focuses on education to improve quality of life.
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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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New! Chevron Announces California Partnership to Invest in Education and Jobs
Chevron Corporation has announced the creation of the California Partnership, an initiative to invest in education and economic development in its home state. Under the new initiative, Chevron will expand and deepen its partnerships with nonprofits focused on supporting underserved communities, including relationships with 18 new nonprofit partners providing programs for education, entrepreneurs and job training.
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Chevron Partners with Tiger Woods Foundation to Enhance Education for Youth
The Tiger Woods Foundation and Chevron said they will join together to enhance and develop programs, activities and events in support of the Foundation.
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Chevron Announces Opening of Vocational Training Center in Tsunami-Affected Indonesian Province
Chevron Corporation, the government of Indonesia, the local government of Aceh province, the National Education Department, the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced the completion of a $16 million partnership to construct a polytechnic institute in Aceh province, Indonesia.
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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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Mentoring our Future Leaders
Devon has partnered with Oklahoma City University to play an integral role in the university’s Clara Luper Scholarship program. Named in honor of renowned civil rights activist Clara Luper, this outstanding scholarship program gives minority students from low- income families in the Oklahoma City area the opportunity to attend college free of charge.
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Devon NULITES Youth Program
In 2007, Devon partnered with the Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City to launch the Devon NULITES (National Urban League Incentives to Excel and Succeed) youth leadership program. This program, targeted toward high school students in the African American community, encourages the students to promote and maintain high standards of well being and places a great deal of importance on education, character and leadership qualities.
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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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In 2008, ExxonMobil launched a $1.5 million project with Vital Voices to empower women in Africa to become leaders and advocates.
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New! ExxonMobil Partners with Dr. Sally Ride to Promote Math and Science Education & Careers
ExxonMobil Corporation announced today it has increased its investment in math and science education through a partnership with Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel in space.
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Women Can Campaign Launched
Designer Diane von Furstenberg, ExxonMobil Foundation and Vital Voices Global Partnership celebrated International Women's Day yesterday with the launch of Women Can, a campaign to empower women to become leaders in developing countries and emerging democracies around the world and to promote awareness of the benefits of global investments in women.
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New! Annual ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair
More than $50,000 in scholarships, 210 awards presented to top competitors as three-day state science competition concludes.
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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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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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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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