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Community Engagement

Committed to Community

Each year, Boeing and our employees work to build better communities around the world. We have an opportunity — and a responsibility — to be a positive force for change in the places we call home. It’s part of who we are.

We believe that in order to remain a sustainable, dynamic and global company, it’s imperative that we invest time, talent and resources where our employees live and work — contributing to efforts that build and enhance our communities for generations to come.

Here, we showcase the evolution of our philanthropic journey — one that is fueled by purpose, driven by innovation, and dedicated to building a world where positive change is our commitment.

2024 Boeing Sustainability & Social Impact Report

The 2024 Boeing Sustainability & Social Impact Report outlines progress we’ve made on employee well-being, diversity and inclusion, our environmental efforts and positively impacting our global communities, with safety and quality core to all we do. Included in this report are Boeing’s community impact highlights, which showcase how investments and employee volunteerism are helping communities where we live and work.

2024 Sustainability & Social Impact Report
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Our Employees

Dedicated to positive change

Boeing employees share their time and skills to build better communities worldwide through mentorship, community service projects and board service to nonprofit organizations.

As part of BoeingCares, the company’s employee community engagement program, Boeing offers an industry-leading gift match program to enhance employee giving and volunteerism, providing a dollar-for-dollar match for eligible charitable donations and matching funds for eligible volunteer time.

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$36M

contributed by employees to communities worldwide
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477,000

volunteer hours donated by employees to charitable causes
ECF celebrates 75 years of community partnerships

A lot has changed through the decades, but Boeing employees’ commitment to their communities has remained constant.

Employees transform communities during Earth Month

Boeing teammates joined nonprofit partners around the world to make a difference for the planet.

'Why I volunteer'

Boeing employees reflect on the importance of volunteering during Global Volunteer Month in April.

Communities benefit from events hosted by the Boeing Black Employee Association and Boeing Global Engagement.
Boeing employees honor legacy of service

Communities benefit from events hosted by the Boeing Black Employee Association and Boeing Global Engagement.

Katelynn Rose is a BDS procurement agent based in Tukwila, Washington. She started her journey with Boeing last May.
My reason for giving

Katelynn Rose is a Boeing Defense, Space & Security procurement agent based in Tukwila, Washington. She started her journey with Boeing last May.

Boeing volunteer day help restore critical salmon habitat at state park in Washington.
For the sake of salmon

Boeing grant and volunteer day help restore critical salmon habitat at state park in Washington.

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From seeds to sustainability
Boeing employees’ dedication this Earth Month helped plant 12,000 trees.

Boeing volunteers help equip students for success in school
When Adam Esposito, a Boeing procurement analyst, showed up to help pack school supplies with other Mesa, Arizona, employees, he immediately realized his Lean Six Sigma project-management skills could be applied to volunteer work, too.

Boeing teams in Poland help colleagues from Ukraine
Efforts include finding colleagues a safe place to sleep and providing the means to continue work.

Boeing employees contribute $33 million to local communities
Boeing also adds 66,000 new charitable organizations globally to gift match program.

Boeing volunteer pilots join the COVID-19 fight from the air
A group of Boeing employees is turning its passion for flying into a lifesaving mission during the COVID-19 crisis.

13,000 miles in 3 days: Meet the team behind Boeing’s first COVID-19 airlift mission
On the morning of April 15, a crew of five—three pilots, a flight attendant and a flight engineer—gathered at the airport in Gary, Indiana, and began their typical pre-flight routines.

Doggone dedicated: Employee fosters service dog during quarantine
When Colorado residents were told to stay home on March 26, Rhonda Larance, a Global Services industry relations manager, and her husband, Brad, didn’t expect it would result in an extended house guest — a Labradoodle named Rumi.

What's in a frame
The Innovation Center at Boeing’s Renton, Washington plant usually supports the site with tooling, prototypes, “everything and anything,” as additive manufacturing focal Jeremiah Avery said.

Employees provide 3.2 million pounds of food to families in need
Puget Sound’s Food & Essentials drive raises more than $400,000 for local food banks

Boeing Employees Help Students ‘Engineer’ Their Way to a Brighter Future
Celebrate Engineers Week Feb. 17-21

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Our Future

Prepare and inspire the next generation

Boeing is committed to preparing and inspiring the next generation of innovators and explorers. Through a close collaboration with schools, community organizations and industry partners, we support STEM education and workforce development programs that are tailored to the needs of the communities where our employees live and work.

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$48.5M

in Boeing contributions throughout 2023
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423

grants in support of STEM education and workforce development programs in 2023
Aviation-themed STEM hub opens in the UK

Boeing helps support creating new opportunities for young people to enjoy immersive STEM learning.

Children from Spain to China learn about the forces of flight and ponder aviation careers.
Boeing DreamLearners: Inspiring global STEM students

Children from Spain to China learn about the forces of flight, enjoy math and science lessons, and ponder aviation careers.

Boeing helps support creating new opportunities for young people to enjoy immersive STEM learning.
New aviation-themed STEM activity hub is a 1st for England

Boeing helps support creating new opportunities for young people to enjoy immersive STEM learning.

Boeing-sponsored exhibit in Philadelphia is an immersive two-story journey through the marvels of space exploration.
Boeing encourages students to explore ‘Wondrous Space’

Boeing-sponsored exhibit in Philadelphia is an immersive two-story journey through the marvels of space exploration.

A Texas high school student writes how the exhibit connects her and others to future careers.
Boeing aerospace exhibit helps launch dreams

A Texas high school student writes how the exhibit connects her and others to future careers.

Children in Ukraine learn aerodynamics and teamwork, and experience the joy of flying their own kites during event.
Power of fun: Boeings kite-making workshop

Children in Ukraine learn aerodynamics and teamwork, and experience the joy of flying their own kites during event.

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Boeing and partners launch STEM School in Ethiopia
The STEM School in Addis Ababa will provide students with 300 hours of hands-on training with a focus on aviation.

Ukrainian students learn coding at Boeing Poland
Amidst the trauma and disruption of war, hundreds of displaced Ukrainian teenagers are learning skills that will set them up for future success.

Turning lemons into leadership lemonade
Boeing announces expanded partnership with Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Students shine as they sign on the dotted line
Johlesa Orm, a senior at Charles A. Lindbergh High School in Renton, Washington, is already committed to studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) after she graduates.

Scottish academy is latest Boeing STEM investment in Europe
A Boeing-backed flight academy – the first of its kind in the United Kingdom – has opened in Scotland to inspire the engineers and scientists of tomorrow.

Boeing teammates share passion for STEM with Canadian students
Boeing employees engaged with students in Canada virtually during the annual Let’s Talk Science Challenge, a team-based competitive enrichment event for students in Grades 6-8.

5 years, 2,000 students honored at STEM Signing Days
On April 29, hundreds of students from across the U.S. joined a virtual STEM Signing Day celebration, an event honoring students who commit to study a science, technology, engineering or math field at a two- or four-year college or trade school.

Boeing helps teen pilot achieve her dream
When 18-year-old Cailey Stewart agreed to appear on The Kelly Clarkson Show this month, she didn’t expect it to change her life.

Meet This Year’s Boeing Scholars at Embry-Riddle
Boeing scholarships will help to increase the number of women, underrepresented minorities, military veterans and their dependents in the aviation industry

STEM Signing Days go virtual
The setting looked a little different this year, but that didn’t diminish the excitement of STEM Signing Days

It’s official: Boeing-sponsored model-rocket launch breaks Guinness record
STEM event in Rocket City one of many held to mark Apollo 11 anniversary

Boeing Helps Save Space Camp
Boeing has made a $500,000 leadership gift to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Save Space Camp campaign.

Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025

Boeing is proud to be the Global Presenting Partner of the Games and partner of the Invictus Games Foundation to honor and support wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women around the world.

Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 announcement
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Our Heroes

Empowering veterans in their next mission

Boeing is committed to improving the quality of life for transitioning service members, veterans, and their families, as well as communities typically underserved in the military-veteran ecosystem.  Through our veteran engagement, we're helping ensure veterans and their families have the support they need to thrive long after service.

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$13.1M

Invested in programs supporting veterans and their families in 2023
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110

Grants supported through Boeing investments in 2023
Boeing sponsors prostheses for Ukrainian Invictus veteran

Boeing Global Engagement supports rehabilitation for injured veterans.

Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 and Invictus Games Foundation 2026
Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler

Boeing commits to partnership with the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 and the Invictus Games Foundation through 2026.

Invictus Games competitors talk about the importance of family support and bonds with other veterans.
Veterans reflect on their greatest source of strength

Video: Invictus Games competitors talk about the importance of family support and bonds with other veterans.

Team Boeing serves as global volunteer force to support competitors, build connections and gain perspective.
Boeing Invictus Games volunteers say what inspires them

Team Boeing serves as global volunteer force to support competitors, build connections and gain perspective.

German veterans Jens Niemeyer and Tino Wesser share how Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 helped get their life back.
Back to life through sport: I do not need a medal

German veterans Jens Niemeyer and Tino Wesser share how Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 helped get their lives back.

Meet the four-footed soul mates supporting competitors in Invictus Games.
Anything is pawsible

Meet the four-footed soulmates supporting competitors in the Invictus Games.

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‘I would not be here today without the Invictus Games’
Boeing engineer and veteran goes from surviving to thriving.

Boeing nonprofit partner honors sacrifice of American service members
A new partnership between Boeing and the American Battle Monuments Foundation will support educational programming focused on the history of American valor through the lens of the American service members who died and are buried or memorialized overseas.

Boeing employees salute Invictus athletes
The Invictus Games closed on April 22 in The Hague, Netherlands, with a rapturous closing ceremony in celebration of all those athletes who took part.

Boeing donates $1.4 million to support military veterans and Afghan allies
Funding will go toward Afghanistan humanitarian relief efforts, interpreter and refugee resettlement, veteran service projects, wellbeing initiatives and Blue Star Families

Boeing teams up with the Seattle Mariners to pay tribute to those who serve
Army veteran and Boeing employee, Timothy Krambs, throws out the ceremonial first pitch in a salute to service

Boeing Red Tails Classic will honor legacy of Tuskegee Airmen
Boeing signs a three-year agreement to become the title sponsor of ESPN Events’ inaugural Red Tails Classic college football game

Student Veterans of America chooses Boeing as Partner of the Year
Student Veterans of America (SVA), an organization supporting the academic, professional and personal development of veterans, selected Boeing as its Partner of the Year.

“I wasn’t just a number at Boeing. I was stepping into a team again.”
On a hot afternoon in 2008, Mark Donaldson was driving through a valley in Afghanistan when his five-vehicle convoy was ambushed.

St. Louis area veteran receives new specially adapted home
A Boeing investment in Homes For Our Troops helped Sgt. Nathan Shumaker and his family receive a new home

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Our Homes

Strengthening our communities

Boeing is committed to strengthening communities around the world by investing in the areas most needed in the communities where we live and work. Boeing places a special emphasis on programs that promote environmental stewardship, advance economic mobility for underserved groups, support community well-being, uplift diverse communities, drive active civic engagement, and help break the cycle of incarceration.

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$7.6M

Invested in local communities by Employees Community Fund chapters in 2023
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$8.6M

invested in environmental programs
Boeing employees, including the company match, have donated more than $405,689 to help Hawaii recover from wildfires.
Update: Employees open their hearts, wallets for Hawaii

Boeing employees, including the company match, have donated more than $405,689 to help Hawaii recover from wildfires.

Scholarship for aviators with disabilities instills confidence

Through Boeing’s support of a UK charity, Flying Scholarships for Disabled People (FSDP), Dorothy Stuart has been able to fulfill her dream to fly a plane, despite her disability

Youth lift their voices at Boeing-hosted Juneteenth events

Boeing celebrated Juneteenth by hosting Boys & Girls Clubs of America members on visits to the National Archives Museum and to Boeing headquarters.

Since being established by employees in 1948, ECF has made about $1 billion in contributions.
75 years and counting for Employees Community Fund

Since being established by employees in 1948, Employees Community Fund (ECF) has made about $1 billion in contributions.

Boeing employees share their experiences as volunteer translators and interpreters for nonprofit partner Tarjimly
Breakthrough: Multilingual employees help communities in need

Boeing employees share their experiences as volunteer translators and interpreters for nonprofit partner Tarjimly

An Honor Flight, similar to those for military veterans, brought a group of eleven “Rosie the Riveters” to the nation’s capital for a day of celebration on March 27. 
Rosie the Riveters take part in Honor Flight

An Honor Flight, similar to those for military veterans, brought a group of 11 “Rosie the Riveters” to the nation’s capital.

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Boeing donates $500,000 to earthquake recovery and relief efforts in Turkey
Boeing is donating $500,000 from the Boeing Charitable Trust to assist those impacted by the recent earthquake in Turkey.

Boeing partner breaks down language barriers
Earlier this year, as wildfires burned through parts of California, many immigrants living in affected communities had to navigate language barriers that prevented them from accessing lifesaving safety information like air quality level details and directions on how to respond such as wearing masks and keeping windows closed.

Boeing Contributes $1 Million for Hispanic and Latinx Support Organizations
In observance of Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S., Boeing announced a $1 million donation to organizations supporting Hispanic and Latinx communities.

Boeing donates $2M toward Hurricane Ian relief efforts
Boeing is committing $2 million to assist with on the ground disaster recovery and relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

Bridging the divide
As part of Boeing’s commitment to sustainability as a company value — with a focus on environmental stewardship — company officials announced Feb. 1 a $1 million donation to the National Wildlife Federation for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Los Angeles.

Boeing brings aspiring future pilot to the mound in celebration of kids and an exceptional Mariners season
Boeing brings aspiring future pilot to the mound in celebration of kids and an exceptional Mariners season

Boeing Commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial
$500,000 foundational investment will fund Greenwood Rising XR experience and the Youth Race & Leadership Forum

Boeing Deploys Emergency Assistance to Support Employees & COVID-19 Response in India
Boeing’s $10 million assistance package will be directed to organizations providing relief, including medical supplies and emergency healthcare for communities and families battling COVID-19

Real-life Rosie the Riveter inspires students to reach ‘to the moon and the stars’
More than 700 students from Pennsburry School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, gathered recently to hear from an iconic member of the Boeing family, Mae Krier — a retired Boeing employee and original WWII-era Rosie the Riveter.

Boeing Provides $700,000 to Assist Families Affected by Wildfires
American Red Cross to receive $500,000; additional $200,000 to support food banks in impacted communities

Boeing commits funding for Indigenous communities in the U.S.
Company’s investments will help fund STEM education, job training and access to clean water

Boeing invests $10.6 million to support racial equity and social justice
The grants are focused on increasing the number of minority and underserved students pursuing STEM education and diversifying the aerospace talent pipeline

Boeing helps Chicago-area students head back to class
Boeing awarded a $1.5 million charitable grant to support the expansion of technology access for approximately 4,500 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students.

Response to COVID-19 PPE shortage showcases One Boeing teamwork
A three-month effort to provide personal protective equipment to health care workers treating COVID-19 patients shows how collaborating across Boeing for a common cause – and greater good – leads to success, leaders say.

Boeing Dreamlifter transports 500,000 protective masks to Utah
Completing its 12th COVID-19 mission since the pandemic started, Boeing transported a half million protective masks to Utah aboard a Dreamlifter on Wednesday.

Boeing uses 3 Dreamlifters to complete another COVID-19 airlift mission
150,000 PPE was flown to medical heroes in South Carolina

Boeing Dreamlifter Transports 1.5M Face Masks for COVID-19 Response
Using a Dreamlifter, Boeing completed another COVID-19 transport mission, carrying 1.5 million medical-grade face masks Sunday from Hong Kong to Greenville, South Carolina.

Boeing completes first COVID-19 transport mission
As the world fights the spread of the coronavirus, Boeing continues to assist in any way it can on the ground and in the air.

First batch of 3D-printed face shields shipped out
Face shields to be used by medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 pandemic

Seeking Support

We lead responsibly to help address challenges that are bigger than any one company’s interests. Boeing supports organizations that are leaders in what they do, demonstrate innovation, and align and collaborate with others to achieve workable solutions to community issues. Our community investments are managed locally and grantmaking strategies are tailored by locations to address the specific needs of their region.

Please select your state or country to learn more about Boeing’s and priorities for each specific area of giving and how to apply for a grant.

For more information about grant eligibility, please review our grants exclusion guidelines.

The Employees Community Fund (ECF) of The Boeing Company

One of the largest employee-managed funds of its kind in the world, the Employees Community Fund (ECF) of The Boeing Company has been empowering employees to make a greater impact by pooling their tax-deductible donations for more than 60 years. Employee-led grantmaking committees at 20 Boeing sites- provide combined employee donations to nonprofits in their communities through ECF grants.

Charitable or educational organizations can apply for grants from the Employees Community Fund (ECF) of The Boeing Company.

Find your state or region below for specific ECF grant making guidelines.