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Imperial Oil contributes over $2.4 million to the United Way-Centraide. Employees and retirees help to raise over $300,000 more than in 2001.
| | Toronto, ON, Jan. 16, 2003 | Imperial Oil is pleased to announce that the company, in partnership with its employees and retirees, contributed more than $2.4 million to the 2002 United Way-Centraide Campaign across Canada. The total contribution increased by over $300,000, from $2.1 million in 2001. Imperial is one of only 38 organizations across Canada that contributed over $1 million to the United Way-Centraide in 2002.
"We are extremely pleased at the level of support our employees and retirees have given the United Way this year, with contributions totaling $1,500,000 from employees and retirees and over $900,000 from the corporation," said Barbara Hejduk, Imperial Oil Foundation president. "We at Imperial have a long history of contributing to the United Way and the outstanding organizations it represents. We know that United Way agencies provide very important services to people in need in communities across Canada, and, as a company and as individual donors, we are proud to assist in funding those programs."
In conjunction with the campaign, Imperial held United Way Days of Caring across the country in many of its major operating locations. More than 650 Imperial employees and retirees volunteered for a day at charitable organizations, such as the Hull Patch project, a Calgary initiative where participants revitalized 16 bedrooms for underprivileged kids, including handsewn curtains, and the Bond Street Nursery School, a downtown Toronto centre for pre-school children where participants read to children for an afternoon.
"Imperial employees have historically been one of the most generous groups in our community," Gordon Shand, Fundraising Manager, United Way of Greater Toronto, where the head office of Imperial Oil is located. "We sincerely appreciate their commitment to community, demonstrated by their generous increase in giving. This money will help find solutions to community problems in neighbourhoods across the country and support more than one million people in need."
The United Way-Centraide is a non-profit organization located in 125 communities across the country. Each United Way works locally to find solutions to community problems by mobilizing volunteers, identifying community needs and raising and distributing funds. The money raised this year will help children and youth, senior citizens in need, families and abused women, disabled and homeless people as well as newcomers to Canada.
Imperial Oil is committed to supporting community programs in communities where its employees live and work. In 2002, the Imperial Oil Foundation provided almost $6.7 million in support to more than 400 non-profit organizations across Canada.
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