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Community
HOUSING AND BASIC NEEDS
$13.2 MILLION TOTAL FUNDS DONATED IN 2023
Housing is critical to reducing poverty, increasing economic
mobility, and helping families build strong social and cultural
ties with their communities. Valero works with various
agencies that help provide families with a place to call home.
The following are some examples of recent efforts.
Memphis, Tennessee - Since 2019, Valero has partnered with Alpha
Omega Veterans Services, which provides lodging services to
transitional veterans. In 2023, Valero provided a $50,000 grant to
the agency’s Homes for Heroes program for a new state-of-theart home for veterans in a campus-style facility that will also offer
enhanced supportive services such as an exercise gym, library,
basketball gymnasium, arts and music therapy and a full-service
computer lab. More than 250 veterans are served annually.
Benicia, California - Valero supported Rebuilding Together
Solano County’s Veteran Home Rehab that provides necessary
health and safety repairs for low-income veterans. With Valero's
contribution, the agency was able to distribute safe-at-home kits
to 1,600 veterans, active military and surviving families of veterans.
Corpus Christi, Texas - Valero partnered with Sea City Work
Camp, a group organized in 1993. The camp teaches young people
technical and leadership skills, and helps them build self-esteem,
while they provide home repairs for families in need. In 2023,
through Valero’s donation of $10,000, volunteers repaired the roof of
a family’s home near the re昀椀nery in the Dona Park neighborhood.
Sea City Work Camp participants repair a roof in the Dona
Park neighborhood near the Valero Corpus Christi Re昀椀neries.
Ronald McDonald House - Keeping
children near the care they need
so families can get better together.
Through the years, Valero has
provided more than $3.4 million
to Ronald McDonald House in
many communities where it has
operations, including Wilmington,
California; San Antonio, Houston,
Dumas, Corpus Christi and
Texas City, Texas; Memphis,
Tennessee; Aurora, South Dakota;
Bloomingburg, Ohio; Charles City,
Iowa; and South Louisiana.
In 2023, Valero provided over
$275,000 to help more than 1,500
families with travel expenses for
their children’s healthcare needs.
In addition to providing funding
support, Valero volunteers in
Wilmington helped the local Ronald
McDonald House by building a
children’s playhouse and added
trikes, patio furniture, plants for
the garden and lighting, so that
families could enjoy nights outside.
Greyson was
born 10 weeks
early. During
Greyson’s 51day stay at
his hospital’s
neonatal
intensive
care unit, the
Ronald McDonald House of South
Louisiana provided his mom,
Charlene, with lodging, daily
transportation to and from the
hospital and hot meals. Charlene
said, “Our stay here has been
wonderful. The staff were always
helpful and nice. They treat you
like family.”
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