Volunteering Opportunities
A list describing the many great opportunities to volunteer with Chevron Humankind and to participate in events of interest put on by the Employee Networks can be found in the current Newsletter.
Chevron Humankind – Grants and Volunteering
Chevron Humankind is your resource for getting cash grants for your favorite non-profits and for finding outlets for that volunteering energy you have. Opportunities for volunteering with Chevron employees are finally increasing after the pandemic. Remember that Chevron allows retirees to match up to $3,000 or your donations to non-profits, $1,000 of that can be based on your volunteering with a non-profit.
There were over 56,000 matching grant requests in 2023 (employees and retirees). This is a fantastic benefit to us as retirees – please avail yourselves of the opportunity. Now, over half of the matching requests were submitted in January. If you can spread that out over the year it would be great.
April was National Volunteer Month, here are some stats for Chevron’s participation (employees and retirees): 3,550 hours, 884 volunteers, 70 non-profits impacted, 79 projects.
Retirees are invited to submit projects for the 2024 Fall Volunteer Campaign. Do you have a project at a non-profit that can use volunteers? During the Fall campaign, retirees can also sign up for projects that match their interests and availability. Most Fall Campaign projects will be posted in Chevron Humankind by early September 2024.
Volunteering Events
Volunteer with employees and retirees at the 2024 Bay Area Fall Volunteer Campaign. This year it runs from September into October. You are able to sign up for any project on the list, and in future years can submit your own project. There are 2 projects this year coordinated by retirees. Lots of opportunities to get out there and help your community. The sign-ups are available on the Chevron Humankind website (https://chevron.yourcause.com/auth/ basic) and click on the opportunities to volunteer link. This is available all year long and so I suggest you look at the opportunities periodically. Please check out our Volunteering events list - go to our website at http://chevronretireescontracosta.org/special_events.html and click on the opportunities to volunteer link.
Volunteering Distribution list – we had a distribution list of people who were interested in getting a push of volunteering opportunities on approximately a bi-monthly basis. The opportunities are mostly pulled from Chevron Humankind for projects primarily in the East Bay (though in the past we have included others as well). We would like to build that list again from scratch. If you would be interesting in getting this bi-monthly email of opportunities, whether you were on it before or not, please send a note to cracocoevents@gmail.com.
Special Events & Fun Activites
Hiking Group
We are enjoying the sunny skies and brisk air in the mornings on our hikes. Since it’s warming up we are doing more of our hikes further to the west. We have hikes from Easy to Difficult so there’s something for every interest. Contact us through cracocoevents@gmail.com for more info and to get on the Hiking Group Mailing List. You can see pictures of our past hikes and hikers at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1TBeGYuHzZPniVWV5x6Dok-UuDJixGDmC
Chevron Golf Club San Ramon
Chevron Golf Club San Ramon (CGCSR) is an NCGA Affiliate Club that has as its base Chevron employees, contractors, and retirees. The club has about 60 members with indexes ranging from 4 to 34. We plan to run 24 outings this year, where the club officers arrange for tee times. At these outings, we have an optional small game going (net or skins), closest to the pin prizes on 2 holes, a season-long match play, a club championship (net and gross winners) and a special end-of-year tournament. Most outings are on Friday or Saturday. We play a wide variety of courses, mostly East Bay, North Bay and Tri-Valley, and some further afield. The NCGA affiliation means that you get an official NCGA handicap and have the opportunity to represent CGCSR in NCGA tournaments (partially subsidized by the club). For 2024, membership is only $85 for new members. For more information, contact cgcsanramon@gmail.com.
Chevron Matching
For retirees, Chevron matches your donations to non-profits up to 100% and up to $3,000 in matching per year. This is a great way of helping the non-profits you care about. You can also get a $500 grant for donating 20 hours of time to a non-profit – and 2 of those grants are available each year. PLEASE submit your match requests prior to January (the last month allowed) as they get most of their requests during that time. Submitting earlier in the year helps their workflow (and yours) to get the money to your non-profits more quickly.
Chevron Heritage Center Retiree Tours
The Chevron Retirees Association has been invited to attend complimentary tours at the Chevron Heritage Center in Dublin. Guided tours are limited to 20 people, and will take place in July, September and November, 2024, with additional tours in 2025. Only retirees are eligible to attend.
The Chevron Heritage Center offers a vast tableau of the oil industry’s rich and varied history. Established within legacy-company Texaco in 1950 to collect historic material, the archive now provides a hefty record of Chevron’s growth from a modest oil prospecting organization formed in 1879 to its current status as one of the world’s great energy companies. The archive’s collection underscores this growth by encompassing the history of Chevron’s many legacy companies, which include such energy pioneers as Standard Oil Co. of California, Texaco Inc., Gulf Oil Corp., Getty Oil Co. and Unocal Corp.
The next tour is scheduled for Wednesday, September 11 from 10:00 – 11:30 am.
Please RSVP or direct questions to Maggie Pryde at maggie4131@gmail.com. Reservations will be on a first come, first served basis. Additional information will provided to attendees prior to the tour date.
Save the Date
Friday, December 6, 2024 for the Graduates lunch at the Concord Plaza Hotel