Boeing demonstrates a profound commitment to global community engagement, focusing on supporting programs that inspire future generations, empower military personnel and veterans, and strengthen the communities where the company operates. By forming strategic charitable partnerships and making targeted contributions, Boeing aims to promote societal growth and catalyze positive, enduring change in communities worldwide, particularly in areas where the company has a presence.
Boeing's grant objectives focus on three main pillars: "Our Future," "Our Heroes," and "Our Homes," each tailored to address specific regional needs in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The grant program aims to support projects that:
"Our Future: Tomorrow’s Innovators": Create pathways from cradle to career, ensuring a diverse and skilled workforce is ready for today's labor market. This includes support for early learning in mathematics, generating interest in STEM through experiential learning, preparing high school students for STEM careers or education, and workforce preparation for veterans, under-skilled adults, and young adults.
"Our Heroes: Veterans & Families": Build better lives for veterans, service members, and their families through workforce transition programs, and recovery and rehabilitation efforts, focusing on PTSD, moral and physical injuries, and suicide prevention.
"Our Homes: Dynamic Communities": Respond to local community needs, focusing on mobility out of poverty with special emphasis on communities of color. This involves supporting programs that improve earnings and wealth accumulation for communities of color and scaling effective programs delivered by grassroots organizations in historically marginalized communities.