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. Chevron announced in February that they have reduced the company match to $2,000, and $500 of that can be based on your volunteering with a non-profit.
With the move from San Ramon to Houston, Chevron does not have as many volunteering opportunities in the Bay Area. There are still quite a few through the refinery, and there will still be a 2025 Fall Volunteer Campaign. Go to Chevron Humankind to see these opportunities. Do you have a project at a non-profit that can use volunteers? Retirees can also submit projects to Chevron Humankind.
Occasionally, members have projects where they are looking for volunteers or have volunteer positions that they are looking for candidates. We can selectively include those in the newsletters if you send them to us in a timely fashion.
Special Events & Fun Activites
Public Service Awards
Chevron and CRA want to encourage, promote and recognize public service efforts, volunteerism and community engagement by individual Chevron retirees. Annually CRA selects two winners from those submitted that exemplify this spirit of giving back to your community. The Public Service Awards are $5,000 awards from Chevron to the non-profit of the winner’s choice. Previous entrants and winners are featured on the CRA website in the Spotlight section (https://www.chevronretirees.org/spotlight). If you are interested in being nominated, give me (Brad) a call at 925-348-6707. My deadline for submittal is March 15, so contact me before that.
Hiking Group
We are currently doing 3 hikes per month, one is an easy/moderate hike, one is an urban hike in either Berkeley or San Francisco learning about history, looking at gardens and houses, and the third is a more challenging hike and typically outside our immediate area. For February, our plans are for the easier hike in the Mt Diablo area (2/7), the challenging hike (2/16) and the Berkeley/ Oakland stairs hike (2/23). In March they will be Easy (3/7), Challenging (3/16) and SF Stairs (3/23). Contact us through cracocoevents@gmail.com for more info and to get on the Hiking Group Mailing List.
CGCSR Golf
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 1 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, as well as a few in Sacramento, plus a long weekend in Monterey. 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 2026, membership is only $90. For more information, contact cgcsanramon@gmail.com.
Chevron Retirees Association website
Take a look at the CRA website (www.chevronretirees.org). There are lots of great pictures out there of retirees having fun, good benefits information, links to Benefit Hub and Chevron Humankind, information on the Chevron Advocacy Network, etc.
Chevron Advocacy Network
I urge you to join the Chevron Advocacy Network (CAN). We continue to increase our retiree membership in CAN. We will be announcing our new numbers soon on the CRA website (http://chevronretirees.org) and plan to update it more often. We will also be giving more frequent updates on participation in action alerts. Part of CAN is to provide you with information about our company and industry that you can share with others. Things like explaining the cost components of California gas prices, explaining what lower carbon entails, or videos on subjects like new energy solutions that Chevron is working on. CAN is also about giving you the ability to easily participate in action alerts by sending letters to your elected representatives on issues that are important to our industry. We need all energy sources to move forward. There are many outspoken critics of our industry, those of us who know better need to share the facts, and advocate for a balanced solution. Please join the Chevron Advocacy Network. You can follow CAN on Facebook or go to the website: www.Chevronadvocacynetwork.com.
Financial Seminars
We run 3-4 Financial Seminars a year in conjunction with Morgan Stanley. They are topics pertinent to retirees (taxes, investing, trusts, saving, etc.). We have a separate distribution list for these seminars. If you are interested to be put on the distribution list (or would like more information), please send an email to cracocoevents@gmail.com with a Subject line of “Financial Seminars”.