The Boeing Company, headquartered in Chicago Illinois, is the largest aerospace firm in the world. It is also the world’s leading manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft and the largest contractor for NASA.

Being an undoubted global leader, Boeing has its own unique philanthropy program which it calls the Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship (GCC). This program places the company in a position where it can have a global impact in the world by working with diverse communities and nonprofit organizations that reach out to the most underprivileged areas in the world to help the needy achieve truly sustainable development.

Boeing has taken up the challenging role of a global philanthropist, working with various stakeholders to improve our world. Through corporate contributions as well as charitable efforts from employees and retirees of the company, it has endeavored in a globalized form of philanthropy – helping out to communities across several continents – in Africa, North America, Europe and Asia.

Boeing’s philanthropy program anchors on five main focus areas: Education, Environment, Health and Human Services, Arts and Culture, and Civic. Through corporate cash and non-cash contributions, employee volunteerism and partnerships with nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, it has dispersed its resources to reach the most underprivileged parts of the world.

Its disaster relief efforts for 2008 have been exemplary. Together with its cash donations, its employees and retirees have quickly answered the call to bring aid all over the globe to victims of natural calamities. With its corporate donations of $1.75 million and employee-retiree matching funds totaling $1.25 million, Boeing GCC was able to give over $3 million total. This assisted relief operations in earthquake-struck Sichuan, China; areas hit by the wildfires in Southern California; flooding in Ukraine and India; and cyclones in Bangladesh and Fiji.

The company also values the involvement of the youth for positive global influence. It collaborated with the Korea Green Foundation, the largest environmental NGO in Korea to establish the Climate Change Classroom, which teaches 11- to 13-year old children the causes of climate change and how young people may address it.

Moreover, Boeing funded mobile crèches in India to provide childcare, learning, nutrition and health care services in India’s National Capital Region. It helped the learning-disabled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Boeing by partnering with the Learning Disability Program at Prince Salman Center for Disability Research (PSCDR) to research methods on improving the proficiency of Arabic speakers. It also worked with Hagar International to aid trafficked women and children and those victims of abuse and violence in Cambodia– enabling their recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration.

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