ChevronTexaco Corp.
(Received Award as Texaco Inc.)
San Francisco, California
 
Bestowed 1992

ChevronTexaco [formerly Texaco, Inc.] has a long tradition of bringing quality cultural programs to diverse audiences, nationally and in communities where ChevronTexaco employees live and work. The company commits a significant portion of its philanthropic budget to the arts each year. This totaled more than $8 million in 1991.

ChevronTexaco has benefited the arts, business and the community by:

• Sponsoring national live radio broadcasts of productions by The Metropolitan Opera since “The Marriage of Figaro” opened in December of 1940. This is the longest national sponsorship in broadcast history. The company expanded its involvement with The Met during the 1960s by creating the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network, which broadcasts live performances to more than 300 classical music stations in the U.S. and Canada. In 1977, ChevronTexaco began sponsoring Met telecasts on public television, enabling the organization to reach an even broader audience. And in 1980, the company made a $5 million leadership grant to The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Fund. In 1990, ChevronTexaco celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts with the expansion of live broadcast transmissions to Europe over the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. Over the five decades following the December 1940 broadcast, ChevronTexaco's sponsorship of The Met amounted to more than $115 million.
• The company underwrites “Free Day” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (formerly Denver Museum of Natural History) for senior citizens, public admittance on “Texaco Star Nites” at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, and “Art After Hours” at the Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York. The Katonah Arts Mile, created by ChevronTexaco, is part of an advertising campaign to help develop awareness of The Katonah Museum of Art, the John Jay Homestead State Historic Site and Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts, all in Katonah, New York.
• Providing grants to hundreds of organizations across the United States each year, many of which support educational projects, as well as initiatives designed to reach underserved audiences and broaden audiences for the arts. The company has funded Music Center on Tour, an outreach program developed by the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (formerly Los Angeles Music Center), Los Angeles, California, to introduce public elementary schoolchildren to a wide range of performance experiences; as well as the In the Wings Program created by The Ensemble Theater, Houston, Texas, offering more than 250 minority and low-income youths the opportunity to participate in theatrical training programs. “Texaco Stars in the Community,” a weekly cable television program that helps to increase audiences for small and mid-sized arts organizations in Westchester County, New York.
• Encouraging increased attendance and support of museums and exhibitions through the company's visual arts programs.
• Supporting a wide variety of cultural institutions in local communities, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, the Oklahoma Arts Institute and the Tulsa Opera. Company executives and employees provide extensive volunteer support to many arts organizations throughout the country, and the company makes small grants to the local organizations for which they volunteer.