Boeing announced today that it will donate over $ 50 million to support more than 500 non-profit organizations in 50 countries around the world. The package of charitable funds will fund programs in 2018 and integrate the $ 117 million upfront into the company's total business and employee contributions for similar causes - bringing Boeing's total community investment to approximately $ 167 million in this one alone. year.
"We aspire to be protagonists in every area of our business and this includes leadership in those communities where our employees and their families live and work"Commented Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and chief executive officer. "By benefiting from the unique skills and passions of our colleagues, our professional network and partnerships, as well as our financial resources, we inspire the dreamers and protagonists of tomorrow by contributing to positive and lasting change in our communities around the world.".
Boeing donations, anchored to local and national activities that involve employee engagement, are aimed at developing the innovators of the future through investments in those skills required by modern workplaces and supporting military veterans and their families in the transition to the workforce civil. Locally, Boeing investments face unique challenges and fundamental issues for those communities in which the company operates.
In Italy, Boeing will support in the 2018 a program of orientation to the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), aimed at students of Secondary Schools of I and II degree, with the contribution of university researchers. Furthermore, for the eighth consecutive year, the commitment to the environmental education project "Svitati per l'Ambiente" aimed at primary schools throughout Italy continues.
