mpc in your community - Marathon Petroleum Corporation

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mpc in your community - Marathon Petroleum Corporation
MPC
IN YOUR
COMMUNITY
In addition to the hundreds of activities you’ll see in
this report, MPC donates millions of dollars to dozens
of national, state and local charities in the areas of
arts and culture, education, environment, health and
human services, and more. The causes include local
neighborhood projects, such as our commitment of
$2 million to the Kemeny Recreation Center in Detroit,
Mich., as well as national organizations, such as our
$300,000 contribution to the Ronald McDonald House
and $450,000 commitment to Children’s Miracle
Network Hospitals.
STEVE MARSH,
Machinist at
MPC’s Canton,
Ohio, refinery
and Boy Scout
Leader
MARLA GIBBS,
Technical Writer
at MPC’s
headquarters
in Findlay,
Ohio, and
United Way
Volunteer
MPC’s commitment to the
communities in which it operates
is steadfast. It is driven by our
thousands of employees who
care deeply about their friends,
neighbors and the institutions
that make our communities better
places to live.
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on, go to page 46.
TRENT JUNGA, Health,
Environment and Safety
Professional at MPC’s
Texas City, Texas, refinery
and Volunteer Fireman
MICHAEL FILKINS,
Operator at MPC’s
Catlettsburg, Ky.,
refinery and
Volunteer for
Relay for Life
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Neighborhood green space created from the Oakwood Heights Property
Purchase Program, near MPC’s refinery in Detroit, Mich.
◗ MPC’s Garyville, La., refinery
donated $15,000 to each of its four
adopted schools in St. John the Baptist
Parish, La. The schools include Garyville
Mt. Airy Magnet School, East St. John
Elementary, East St. John High School
and South Central Louisiana Technical
College. MPC also donated $1,000 each
to every other K-12 school in the parish.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
participated in a “build-a-bear”
workshop, at which they assembled
stuffed animals for children. The furry
toys were donated to the Findlay Fire
Department to be distributed to children
who have suffered traumatic events.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Canton, Ohio,
dispatched technical advisors and airmonitoring equipment to support federal,
state and local emergency services that
were responding to a fire in northeast
Canton that was the source of pollutant
emissions.
◗ MPC’s Texas City refinery in Texas
City, Texas, won the company’s
President’s Award for Responsible Care®
for its safety, environmental and other
values-driven performance in 2012, and
distributed its $10,000 prize money
received in 2013 to three local charities:
Teen Health Center of Galveston County,
Gulf Coast Chapter of Big Brothers Big
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Sisters, and the Texas City Independent
School District Foundation for the Future.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Garyville, La.,
presented a $10,000 check to Louisiana
Technical College – River Parishes Campus
to fund scholarships for students in the
school’s Process Technology and Industrial
Maintenance Technology courses.
◗ MPC employees at its headquarters
in Findlay, Ohio, coordinated a Coats
for Christmas collection, gathering and
donating about 140 winter coats, as well as
hats and scarves, for local families in need.
◗ In Norcross, Ga., MPC employees who
were there for a series of meetings took
time from business matters to unload
school supplies from trucks at the Norcross
Cooperative Ministry and pack them
into backpacks for underprivileged kids
in Gwinnett County. They also helped
accomplish some office work while they
were there.
◗ Volunteers from MPC’s refineries in
Texas City, Texas, helped build a Habitat
for Humanity home for a family in financial
need.
◗ MPC employees in Garyville, La., visited
schools in the St. John the Baptist Parish,
La., to share with kids the importance
of calling 811 before digging to avoid
pipelines or other underground features.
The employees also provided information
and tools about hurricane preparedness,
including hurricane-tracking maps,
magnets with emergency information,
glow-in-the-dark pencils and more.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Detroit, Mich.,
completed its Oakwood Heights Property
Purchase Program, through which it
purchased most of the properties in the
Oakwood Heights neighborhood directly
adjacent to the refinery in order to create
a green space. The vast majority of
eligible owners chose to participate in
the program.
◗ MPC employees at the company’s
Texas City, Texas, refinery maintained
their ongoing focus on education in 2013.
Employees served as judges in the Texas
City Independent School District (TCISD)
Science Fair, and representatives from
the Texas City refinery and the Galveston
Bay refinery serve on the board of the
TCISD Foundation for the Future, which
raises funds for educational initiatives
that aren’t state-funded.
◗ MPC’s Marine Transportation
organization donated $2,500 each to
Boyd County Family Resource Center
East and Boyd County Family Resource
Center West in Boyd County, Ky. The
organizations provide services that
connect schools, communities and
families to help those in need.
◗ As MPC organizations compete with
each other for the company’s President’s
Award for Responsible Care®, finalists
receive a cash prize to donate to charities
of their choice. Marathon Pipe Line
LLC, an MPC subsidiary, chose the
Palmer Home for Children in Columbus,
Miss.; Embarras River Basin Agency in
Greenup, Ill.; Toys for Tots, St. John
Center for Homeless Men, Chained Inc.,
and the Wounded Warrior Project in the
Ohio Valley region; and Children’s
Mentoring Connection, Homework
Central, Findlay City Mission and
Blanchard Valley Center in Findlay,
Ohio.
◗ Various groups and individuals at
MPC’s Galveston Bay refinery in Texas
City, Texas, adopted 26 families over
the holidays through the Mainland
Children’s Partnership, providing items
from the families’ Christmas wish lists.
◗ During a series of business meetings in
Nashville, Tenn., MPC employees took
time off to pack boxes into a cooler at
the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle
Tennessee, and presented the food bank
with a $1,250 check.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
sponsored the Back to School Backpack
Program, providing 63 backpacks full
of new clothing to children of families
being helped by the Hope House and
Open Arms Domestic Violence Shelter.
◗ MPC employees assembled and
donated backpacks full of basic school
supplies to Fairview Elementary School
in Westwood, Ky., and Wayne Middle
School in Wayne, W.Va.
◗ Employees at MPC’s Marine
Transportation facility in Catlettsburg,
Ky., participated in an American Red
Cross blood drive, donating a total of
26 units of blood.
◗ MPC employees from the company’s
Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City,
Texas, collected toiletries and other
household goods for local senior citizens,
assembling the donations into “Senior
Baskets,” along with food items, and
delivered them to 50 seniors at a
low-income senior citizen apartment
complex.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
adopted dozens of families during the
Christmas season, providing food,
clothes and gifts for the families through
local charitable organizations like the
Salvation Army.
◗ MPC employees in Speedway,
Ind., volunteered their time to clean
up a vacant property, collecting and
disposing of several bags of trash right
before the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon
and Indianapolis 500 races increased
pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area.
◗ MPC employees in Nashville, Tenn.,
met with students at the Bordeaux
Enhanced Option Elementary School
to discuss the oil industry and the
importance of math and science
education. MPC volunteers also spent an
afternoon landscaping and building an
outdoor classroom area at the school.
◗ MPC employees at the company’s
headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, received
the Light of Hope award from Court
Appointed Special Advocates/Guardian
Ad Litem (CASA/GAL) for volunteer
efforts to assist CASA/GAL in its
mission to serve as the voice for children
involved in the court system.
MPC employees from the company’s
refinery in Garyville, La., conduct science
experiments with St. John the Baptist
Parish elementary-school students.
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Speedway employees pose with toy bears they donated
to the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.
◗ Through generous donations from
its customers, vendors and employees,
Speedway’s fundraising efforts for
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
(CMNH) exceeded $7.6 million in 2013.
Since 1991, Speedway has raised more
than $60 million for CMNH.
◗ MPC’s Garyville, La., refinery
donated $500 checks to each of the
athletic programs of East St. John High
School, St. Charles Catholic High School,
Riverside Academy and West St. John
High School.
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) annual Freedom
Fund banquet in Ashland, Ky. MPC was
lauded for consistently demonstrating its
“commitment to diversity and outreach”
in the community, according to the local
NAACP’s president.
300 workers who received Skills
Development Fund grants from the
Texas Workforce Commission. The
training prepares workers for jobs that
pay an average wage of more than
$38 per hour.
◗ MPC employees from the company’s
Robinson, Ill., refinery purchased school
headquarters took part in the American
Heart Association’s Heart Walk in
Findlay, Ohio, raising more than
$22,000 – the top fundraising team for
the sixth consecutive year.
supplies and about 75 backpacks, filling
them up and delivering them to Crawford
County school children in need.
◗ MPC employees at the company’s
◗ MPC’s refinery in Robinson, Ill.,
$42,000 for the United Way of Greater
Stark County.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Detroit, Mich.,
made its yearly contribution to Epiphany,
a Detroit-based organization that
coordinates college visits for local highschool students.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Detroit, Mich., donated 480 coats and
◗ About 20 MPC employees from
Martinsville, Ill., raised funds and
◗ Employees in Nashville, Tenn.,
raised funds to purchase an additional
120 new winter coats, donating the total
of 600 coats to those in need through the
Salvation Army.
participated in the Wabash Valley
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Canton, Ohio, raised more than
Terre Haute, Ind.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
◗ MPC partnered with the College of
the Mainland in Texas City, Texas,
was the Silver Sponsor of the National
to provide job training to almost
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provided volunteers and financial
resources to support the curriculum
and other offerings at the Lincoln
Trail College.
participated in the Christmas 4 Kids
event, which provides about 400 children
the opportunity to receive a new
winter coat and spend $150 at a local
Wal-Mart for Christmas. MPC employees
also presented the Christmas 4 Kids
organization with a $1,250 check.
“WHEN MARATHON PETROLEUM SHARES INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR
BUSINESS IN OUR COMMUNITY, IT HELPS ASSURE THE COMMUNITY
THAT THEY’RE DOING A GOOD JOB, AND IT AFFIRMS THEIR
COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. IT’S LIKE
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS.”
JOSÉ BOIX
Coordinator, Texas City-La Marque Community Advisory Council
Texas City, Texas
◗ At MPC’s Catlettsburg, Ky., refinery,
200 employees organized its annual
Career Day, which brought almost 3,000
eighth-grade students from 25 schools
in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia to
learn about the refinery and what types of
work its employees do. Booths provided
information on a wide variety of jobs,
including mechanical, fire and rescue,
marine, laboratory, accounting, security,
safety, environmental and many more.
◗ MPC volunteers in Findlay, Ohio,
participated in a Christmas luncheon
and holiday sing-along at the Blanchard
Valley School and Industries, which
increases opportunities for people with
developmental disabilities. Employees
provided and served a Christmas feast,
and provided ukulele accompaniment for
the sing-along.
◗ In 2013, MPC’s refinery in Detroit,
Mich., completed its fourth year of
funding process-technology scholarships
at Detroit’s Henry Ford Community
College. MPC has committed to funding
up to 10 scholarships per year for
10 years.
◗ MPC employees attending a series
of business meetings in Holland,
Mich., volunteered their time at
the local Salvation Army, helping to
move and organize boxes of toys for
underprivileged children, and weeding
and landscaping the front yard of the
Salvation Army office.
◗ In Greenville, S.C., MPC employees
volunteered on a Habitat for Humanity home
for a single mother of two.
◗ MPC’s Garyville, La., refinery donated
$1,000 to the Louisiana State University
chapter of the National Association of Black
Accountants.
◗ MPC employees in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
volunteered to be “Test Champions,”
helping students at Catlettsburg Elementary
prepare for standardized tests.
◗ Dozens of volunteers from MPC’s refinery
in Garyville, La., have sponsored luncheons
at the St. John Council on Aging in Reserve,
La., where they serve meals, sing songs
and sponsor bingo games with prizes.
Eighth-grade students try on firefighting gear at the annual
career fair held by MPC’s Catlettsburg, Ky., refinery.
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MPC employees in Indianapolis, Ind., take a break from cleaning up a public park.
◗ MPC employees and retirees
participated in an Adopt-A-Highway
cleanup on U.S. 224 in Findlay, Ohio,
cleaning up a two-mile stretch of the
road four times during 2013.
◗ MPC employees raised almost $14,500
for the March of Dimes March for Babies
in Ashland, Ky.
◗ MPC volunteers partnered with
help participants in events such as foot
races and the long jump.
◗ MPC employees in Garyville, La.,
donated $13,000 to the John L. Ory
Communication Magnet School to help
with recovery from a fire and the
effects of Hurricane Isaac.
◗ MPC’s 2013 United Way campaign
at its headquarters in Findlay, Ohio,
the Army Corps of Engineers in the
Yatesville Lake Kids Fishing Day near
Louisa, Ky. The event encourages kids
to enjoy the outdoors, and provides food
and prizes along with the fun of fishing.
raised more than $1.6 million with
a variety of efforts by hundreds of
individual employees and groups
contributing to the final tally.
◗ MPC employees volunteered at the
recognized by the United Way of
Metropolitan Nashville, Tenn., with
the organization’s Oscar Award, which
Special Olympics event at Huntington
High School in Huntington, W.Va., to
◗ MPC employee Carole Raley was
recognizes volunteers who go above and
beyond the call of duty in organizing and
championing United Way events in their
companies.
◗ To help the St. John Council on Aging
in Reserve, La., recover from the effects
of Hurricane Isaac, MPC’s refinery in
Garyville, La., donated $5,000 to the
organization.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Canton, Ohio, held a fundraiser for
the Susan G. Komen Foundation to
fight breast cancer. For each employee
donation, local hair stylists volunteered
their time to provide pink hair extensions
or temporary dye to the donors.
“BEFORE MPC’S MARINE TRANSPORTATION GOT INVOLVED, WE WERE
TO THE POINT OF HAVING TO ASK TEACHERS AND STAFF AT THE
SCHOOLS FOR DONATIONS, AND YOU CAN ONLY ASK FOR SO MUCH.
IT’S NICE TO LIVE IN A COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE NOT NECESSARILY
CONNECTED WITH OUR SCHOOLS HAVE A HEART FOR THE KIDS AND A
DESIRE TO HELP WITH THEIR BASIC NEEDS.”
RUTH ELLEN CHANEY
Coordinator, Boyd County Family Resource Center West
Boyd County, Ky.
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◗ About 40 MPC employees volunteered
to clear out and rehabilitate a dilapidated
park in Indianapolis, Ind. The team
cleared brush, pulled weeds, removed
debris, and cleaned and painted
playground equipment and picnic tables.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
assisted the local Salvation Army in its
annual food drive by picking up donated
food items from collection points at
Findlay city schools and helping sort
the donations into 1,500 boxes. The
donations helped feed 750 families
during the holiday season.
◗ MPC employees in Nashville, Tenn.,
partnered with other local organizations
to engage two dozen third-graders in
wildlife education and a discussion
about petroleum and MPC’s role in
manufacturing, transporting and
marketing petroleum products. The
day’s events took place at MPC’s
certified wildlife habitat at its asphalt
terminal property.
◗ MPC was recognized by the Hancock
County, Ohio, Parks Department for
the number of volunteer hours spent by
employees who helped clean up various
park areas and prepare them for visitors.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Garyville, La., donated $4,700 to
purchase backpacks and school supplies
for students in need at East St. John
Elementary School and Garyville Mt. Airy
Magnet School.
◗ MPC employees in Texas City, Texas,
provided career guidance to almost 700
fifth- and sixth-grade students at Barber
Middle School in Dickinson, Texas, and
College of the Mainland in Texas City.
◗ A group of MPC employees from its
Canton, Ohio, refinery worked with
representatives from the Stark County
Educational Service Center to develop
real-world scenarios for local students to
solve, boosting interest in science, math,
engineering and technology.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Detroit, Mich.,
donated state-of-the-art surveillance
cameras to monitor the parking lot at the
Southwest Detroit Business Association
to help prevent vehicle break-ins.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
supported our military by mailing boxes
of food, magazines, personal care items
and signed Christmas cards to four
soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. The
employees also adopted a local military
veteran family, delivering food, wrapped
presents for the kids, and Christmas
cards.
◗ About 30 MPC volunteers from the
company’s Catlettsburg, Ky., refinery
participated in the 13th annual Ashland,
Ky., Repair Affair, which provides homeimprovement help to homeowners based
on financial need. Volunteers cut grass,
removed trash, cut saplings, made minor
repairs and painted siding.
◗ MPC donated $4,000 to the Kenova,
W.Va., police department to help fund
law enforcement activities.
◗ For the fifth consecutive year, MPC’s
Garyville, La., refinery hosted dozens
of ninth- and 10th-grade girls as part of
Louisiana State University’s Exploration
Camp for Inspiring Tomorrow’s
Engineers (XCITE) program, which
introduces young high-achievers to
engineering disciplines through handson demonstrations, field trips and
contact with industry professionals.
Third-graders learn how to use a compass during a visit to the
certified wildlife habitat at MPC’s Nashville, Tenn., asphalt terminal.
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At MPC’s Neil Pit certified wildlife habitat in Robinson, Ill., employees from its
refinery volunteered to provide educational activities and nature walks to hundreds
of elementary school students.
◗ MPC employees in Robinson, Ill.,
◗ MPC employees in Wood River, Ill.,
sponsored a food-drive for the Oblong
Children’s Christian Home, providing
non-perishable food, toiletries and
personal items.
assisted local emergency responders
as they contained a diesel fuel spill and
fire that resulted from an automobile
accident on Illinois Route 3 near
◗ MPC employees at its refineries in
Texas City, Texas, volunteered to help
set up the Miles for the Mainland race,
which raises funds for the United Way
Galveston County Mainland. Volunteers
from MPC’s Galveston Bay refinery
prepared and served hot dogs
after the race, and the refinery won the
Industry Cup for having the most
participants in the race – more than 100.
◗ MPC employees at the company’s
headquarters in Findlay, Ohio,
participated in the American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life, which was partly
sponsored by MPC. Participants from the
company raised more than $2,500.
◗ MPC employees in Martinsville, Ill.,
read The Skin You Live In – a book that
teaches about diversity and inclusion –
to kindergarteners and first-graders at
Martinsville Elementary School, and
conducted an accompanying drawing
activity.
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Hartford, Ill.
◗ MPC employees collaborated with
contractors and vendors supporting
MPC’s Owensboro-to-Catlettsburg
pipeline project to host a charity golf
outing in Mt. Sterling, Ky., that raised
more than $20,000 for the American
Cancer Society in Lexington, Ky.
◗ Volunteers from MPC’s refinery in
Robinson, Ill., provided educational
activities and nature walks to hundreds
of students from local elementary
schools at the refinery’s Neil Pit
certified wildlife habitat. Participating
schools were from Hutsonville,
Oblong, New Hebron, Robinson
and Palestine.
◗ After receiving a donation of a swing
set, Children’s Mentoring Connection
needed help transporting and building
the playground equipment. MPC
employees in Findlay, Ohio, picked up
the swing set, transported it to Camp
Beck in Wyandot County, Ohio, and put
it together.
◗ More than a dozen volunteers
from MPC’s Garyville, La., refinery
volunteered to restore two homes in
St. John the Baptist Parish that were
damaged by Hurricane Isaac.
◗ More than 320 MPC employees from
its headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, ran in
the inaugural Susan G. Komen Northwest
Ohio Race for the Cure. MPC was the
presenting sponsor of the race, and its
runners were the top fundraisers for the
event, donating more than $35,000 to the
cause.
◗ At the American Cancer Society Relay
for Life in St. John the Baptist Parish,
La., MPC’s Garyville, La., refinery was
a $5,000 Gold Sponsor of the event and
sponsored two teams to participate.
MPC volunteers also raised an additional
$6,600 on the day of the event by selling
food, T-shirts and more.
“MARATHON PETROLEUM IS AN EXCELLENT AND DEPENDABLE
NEIGHBOR. ITS HELP RANGES FROM OUTRIGHT FINANCIAL AID TO
COACHING VARIOUS TEAMS AT SCHOOL, COOKING AT A BOOTH AT OUR
FALL AND CHRISTMAS FESTIVALS, HOLDING OFFICES AT EVERY LEVEL
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION, AND THEIR EMPLOYEES’
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION OF TIME AND EXPERTISE ANYWHERE IT IS
NEEDED IN THE COMMUNITY.”
ROBERT BERTY
Director, Crawford County Development Association
Robinson, Ill.
◗ About 20 Speedway employees
participated in the American Cancer
Society’s Making Strides Against Breast
Cancer 5K Walk in Canton, Ohio. Their
participation, as well as donations from
generous Speedway customers, provided
almost $15,000 to the charity.
◗ MPC funds the annual Step Back in
Time event at the historic San Francisco
Plantation in Garyville, La., which was
held for the 10th time in 2013. The
event hosted fourth-grade students
from St. John the Baptist Parish, La.
◗ Through its annual $5,000 donation to
the Canton South High School, the MPC
refinery in Canton, Ohio, contributed to
the school’s ability to purchase a mill
that allows students to make models of
engineering drawings. The purchase
was part of the school’s Project Lead
the Way program, which works to spark
interest in math and science.
◗ MPC donated $46,500 to the
Texas City Independent School
District Foundation for the Future in
Texas City, Texas, to help fund the
organization’s educational initiatives.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Detroit, Mich., collected and donated
more than 2,000 personal care items
to the Detroit Rescue Mission to help
individuals and families in need.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Catlettsburg,
Ky., sponsored the Gus Macker charity
basketball tournament in Ironton, Ohio,
which had its best year ever in terms
of participation: 210 total teams, three
of which were from the Catlettsburg
refinery.
◗ As a charter member of the Supriya
Jindal Foundation for Louisiana’s
Children, MPC helped to fund
interactive, high-tech instructional
technologies for every public-school
kindergarten classroom in St. John the
Baptist Parish, La.
An MPC employee in Texas City, Texas, participates in the Marathon Petroleum Skeet Tournament,
which raises funds for United Way Galveston County Mainland.
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A student from Patoka, Ill., shows off her winning entry from
MPC’s “Call 811 Before You Dig, Safe Digging Month” contest.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Robinson, Ill.,
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
donated $2,500 to the Oblong Children’s
Christian Home to help fund the
organization’s equestrian therapy center.
Employees also volunteered to install
emergency lighting, clean donated
furniture, remove dirt from the arena to
replace it with sand, and other tasks to
bring the center to completion.
raised almost $3,900 for the Reeves
Northrup Memorial Multiple Sclerosis
(MS) Bike to the Bay event, which
provides funding to combat MS and to
support people in northwest Ohio living
with the disease. The volunteers then
rode the 150 miles of the event route
over two consecutive days.
◗ MPC employees at the company’s
headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, helped
◗ MPC donated $16,000 to the College
of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas,
move donated items at the Findlay City
Mission to higher ground to protect
them from potential flooding. The group
also helped prepare food boxes for
distribution to food banks in the area.
in support of the school’s Collegiate
High School and Process Technology
programs.
◗ In Akron, Ohio, MPC employees
volunteered at the Akron-Canton
Regional Food Bank to prepare food
for distribution throughout the eight
counties served by the bank.
◗ MPC employees volunteered at the
Forgotten Harvest food packaging
warehouse in Oak Park, Mich., where
they prepared food boxes for distribution
to families in need.
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◗ About 20 employees from MPC’s
two refineries in Texas City, Texas,
volunteered during the Christmas Senior
Share, which brought about 700 seniors
from throughout Galveston County
together for a meal, entertainment and
prizes. The volunteers helped decorate
the venue for the event and served food
to the attendees.
◗ In Charleston, S.C., MPC employees
spent an afternoon volunteering at the
Charleston Animal Society, putting
together hundreds of dog treats and
cat toys for the animals there, as well
as creating educational materials for
children about the promotion of animal
welfare.
◗ MPC’s Garyville, La., refinery
contributed $20,000 to the St. John the
Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Department
for post-Hurricane Isaac disaster relief
efforts. This is in addition to the $50,000
donation made in 2012 for the same
purpose.
◗ MPC employees participated in the
annual Ohio River Sweep, in which
volunteers collect and dispose of litter
along the length of the river. MPC
volunteers focused on the river’s banks
in Catlettsburg, Ky.
◗ MPC employees volunteered their
time to construct a parade float that
won second place in the Ironton, Ohio,
Memorial Day parade.
◗ MPC employees volunteered at the
Grayson Lake Cleanup in Grayson, Ky.,
collecting debris for proper disposal.
◗ MPC donated medical supplies to
the Ebenezer Medical Outreach, which
provides free health care to those in
need in Huntington, W.Va.
◗ MPC’s employees at its refinery in
Garyville, La., conducted a fundraising
drive for the St. John the Baptist Parish
United Way, resulting in a donation
of $312,000.
◗ MPC employees at the company’s
Texas City, Texas, refinery and its
Galveston Bay refinery volunteered
their time to participate in Junior
Achievement, providing educational
activities that teach students about
civics and the role of industry in
communities.
◗ In cooperation with the Canton Joint
Engineering Council, MPC employees
at the Canton, Ohio, refinery hosted
an Engineer for a Day program, through
which 20 local students spent a day
learning what an engineer’s workday is
like.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Robinson, Ill., sold safety-related
T-shirts to raise money for local food
pantries. The effort resulted in a $1,350
donation.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Garyville, La.,
was title sponsor for the San Francisco
Plantation’s Annual Arts and Crafts
Festival, which raised $137,000 for the
historic antebellum museum.
◗ MPC’s Detroit, Mich., refinery
prioritized education in 2013, making
financial contributions to various local
schools and educational organizations,
including Mark Twain Elementary,
Pierre Toussaint Academy, Cornerstone
Schools, Matrix Head Start and the
Mercy Education Project.
◗ More than 550 MPC employees at
its headquarters in Findlay, Ohio,
volunteered their time during the United
Way Days of Caring. Employees provided
hands-on assistance to 21 United Way
agencies during the event, helping them
with maintenance, cleanup and
other projects.
◗ Employees from MPC’s two refineries
in Texas City, Texas, volunteered
in the annual Trash Bash, the largest
waterway cleanup event in the state,
collecting trash for proper disposal.
◗ MPC employees in Detroit, Mich.,
raised more than $145,000 for the
United Way for Southeastern Michigan
through various fundraisers, including a
March Madness bracket contest and an
employee chili cook-off.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
donated $2,500 to the Good Samaritan
Center in Kenova, W.Va., for the
organization’s Walking Out Hunger
project, which raised funds for food banks
throughout West Virginia.
◗ At Christmas time, MPC employees
from its refinery in Robinson, Ill.,
purchased gifts for 50 children from
families in need.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio, held
collection drives for clothing items, books
and more for Specialized Alternatives for
Family and Youth, an organization that
works to place children into adoptive or
foster homes.
◗ MPC employees in Texas City, Texas,
volunteered at the July 4th Senior Share,
where more than 500 senior citizens from
across Galveston County took part in a
celebration with a meal, patriotic music
and prizes.
◗ In Lucas, Ohio, MPC employees
volunteered to clean, weed and plant
flowers at the Malabar Farm State Park
visitor’s center to get it ready for an influx
of visitors during the Ohio Heritage Days.
◗ MPC employees in Indianapolis, Ind.,
collected and donated more than 70 large
grocery sacks filled with non-perishable
food for Community Caring and Sharing,
a nonprofit that provides weekly food
deliveries to those in urgent need.
During the United Way Days of Caring in Hancock County, Ohio,
MPC employees help get a public park ready for summer crowds.
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The Marathon Classic LPGA charity golf tournament in Toledo, Ohio, raised $378,000, which was donated
to more than 20 children’s charities throughout northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan.
◗ About 120 MPC employees gathering
at a multiday meeting in Lexington, Ky.,
divided into 17 teams that each built,
painted and named a rocking horse. The
rocking horses were donated to four
local charities: the Kentucky Children’s
Hospital; Lexington Hearing and Speech
Center; Bluegrass Domestic Violence
Program; and the Center for Women,
Children and Families. A rocking horse
also was donated to the Open Arms
Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis
Center in Findlay, Ohio.
◗ The MPC refinery in Canton, Ohio,
hosted a “Lunch and Learn” with the
Louisville, Ohio, High School Diversity
Initiative Team, with the objective of
contributing to the team’s efforts to
increase diversity awareness in their
school and community.
◗ About 100 volunteers at MPC’s
Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City,
Texas, organized its 13th annual United
Way Golf Tournament, which attracted
almost 300 golfers and raised more than
$83,000 for local charities funded by
United Way Galveston County Mainland.
◗ On Earth Day, MPC employees from its
refinery in Detroit, Mich., visited four
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local schools – Mark Twain Elementary,
Pierre Toussaint Academy, Allendale
Elementary and Matrix Simpson Center
– to talk to students about environmental
stewardship. Volunteers gave each
student a spruce tree seedling.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Catlettsburg, Ky., sponsored a team in
the American Cancer Society’s Making
Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K Walk in
Ashland, Ky. The refinery’s team was the
largest single fundraising team, donating
more than $5,300 to the cause.
◗ MPC employees from its Robinson,
Ill., refinery provided a Christmas lunch
for the clients at Lawrence/Crawford
Association for Exceptional Citizens.
Employees served the meal and provided
entertainment.
◗ In Indianapolis, Ind., 35 MPC
employees volunteered to help build two
Habitat for Humanity homes, working
on interior framing, exterior trim work,
painting and more.
◗ About 100 MPC employees and
family members volunteered for various
functions at the Marathon Classic LPGA
charity golf tournament in Toledo,
Ohio. The Marathon Classic raised
$378,000, which was donated to more
than 20 children’s charities throughout
northwest Ohio and southeast
Michigan. Since the tournament was
founded almost 30 years ago, it has
donated $8.1 million to more than 100
children’s charities in the region. MPC
began serving as the title sponsor of the
event in 2013.
◗ MPC employees at its headquarters
in Findlay, Ohio, held a fundraiser for
the Red Cross Armed Forces Family
Network, raising almost $700 for the
charity.
◗ Dozens of employees from MPC’s
Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City,
Texas, volunteered at the Special Kids’
Day at the Galveston County Fair and
Rodeo, cooking and serving about
1,000 hot dogs to the children and their
caregivers, and helping kids get on and
off rides safely.
◗ MPC donated funds to Rogers
Elementary School in Detroit, Mich.,
to help fund a garden project. MPC
employees from its refinery in Detroit
helped students and parents build the
garden, which was then used in the
school’s curriculum.
“MARATHON PETROLEUM IS A GOOD NEIGHBOR. THEY GIVE BACK
TO THE COMMUNITIES AND THE SCHOOLS. SOME COMPANIES ONLY
CARE ABOUT MAKING A DOLLAR, AND IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
BUT MARATHON PETROLEUM TAKES CARE OF US… THEY WANT TO
TAKE CARE OF THEIR NEIGHBORS.”
TIM OSBORNE
Community Advisory Panel member
Canton, Ohio
◗ About a dozen MPC employees
from its refinery in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
volunteered weekly at the Big Brothers
Big Sisters school-based mentoring
program at Catlettsburg Elementary
School. MPC employees also fundraise
for the organization by selling Christmas
trees each year.
◗ Every Friday, MPC employees from
the refinery in Robinson, Ill., delivered
lunch to 15 senior citizens’ households in
Crawford County.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
sponsored a Christmas party for
residents at the Open Arms Domestic
Violence and Rape Crisis Center.
Employees made about 500 desserts,
donated gifts for 150 children and
provided $20 Marathon gift cards to 100
families.
City, Texas, prepared meals for the
Galveston Ronald McDonald House once
each quarter.
◗ At the Gleaners Food Bank in
Indianapolis, Ind., MPC employees
◗ MPC employees at its headquarters in
Findlay, Ohio, volunteered in Habitat
assembled almost 7,000 backpacks of
individually packaged food items and
donated $3,000 to the organization.
for Humanity’s “Women’s Build,” which
brought together a group of men and
women to help finish roofing and other
aspects of a home being built for a local
family.
◗ MPC employees from the company’s
Canton, Ohio, refinery volunteered
at Dueber Elementary School to share
age-appropriate science experiments
with students. Dueber Elementary is the
refinery’s local adopted school.
◗ Members of the Hispanic Network at
MPC’s Galveston Bay refinery in Texas
◗ MPC employees in Detroit, Mich.,
volunteered at Mark Twain and
Allendale Elementary Schools in Detroit
as part of the schools’ Career Day, telling
kids about their jobs in engineering,
operations, health, environment and
safety.
MPC employees in Indianapolis, Ind., prepare food boxes for the Gleaners Food Bank.
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IN YOUR
COMMUNITY
MPC employees working on a Habitat for Humanity build in Findlay, Ohio.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Catlettsburg, Ky., organized fundraisers
for the United Way of Northeast
Kentucky, including remote-control car
races, an online auction, refinery controlroom visits, a yard sale and more. The
efforts resulted in more than $212,000
being donated.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Robinson, Ill.,
raised a total of $215,000 for the United
Way of Crawford County, comprising
about 75 percent of the organization’s
local funding.
◗ MPC employees in Findlay, Ohio,
raised funds and gathered donations for
the Clothe-A-Child program, providing
new winter clothes for 238 children
when cold weather began.
◗ MPC volunteers in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
participated in Riverworks Discovery, a
program that promotes awareness of the
marine environment and marine industry
to local fourth- and fifth-graders.
◗ Attorneys and staff at MPC’s
headquarters in Findlay, Ohio,
volunteered their time and resources
to provide free legal support to people
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in need on matters such as wills, powers
of attorney and litigation. They also
supported a monthly domestic relations
clinic, provided free counsel to call-in
clients from rural counties, served as
court-appointed special advocates and
guardians ad-litem for abused, neglected
or dependent children, and more.
◗ MPC employees from its refinery in
Robinson, Ill., sponsored their Annual
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Canton, Ohio, held a supplies drive for its
◗ MPC transport drivers participated
adopted school, Dueber Elementary, in the
fall, and in December held a hat, mitten
and scarf drive for students. Employees
donated school supplies and warm
clothing to children from families in need.
◗ MPC’s two refineries in Texas City,
Texas, donated $10,000 to the Bay Area
Council of Boy Scouts to fund uniforms
and camping fees for low-income Scouts.
◗ MPC employees from its refinery in
Detroit, Mich., volunteered for the Motor
City Makeover Day, cleaning up a vacant
lot near the refinery.
◗ MPC employees in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
filled almost 100 backpacks with clothes
and school supplies, donating them to
local school children from families in need.
Book Event for all first-grade classrooms
in Crawford County. Volunteers read
A Rainbow of Friends to the students,
incorporating a message of diversity and
inclusion, and that everyone is different
in their own way.
in a Career Vehicle Day sponsored by
the Findlay, Ohio, Center for Autism
and Dyslexia. The drivers answered
questions and helped kids safely sit in
the cabs of the trucks.
◗ MPC helped sponsor the annual Duck
Derby festival, which raises funds for the
Texas City Independent School District’s
Foundation for the Future in Texas
City, Texas. MPC volunteers won the
festival’s duck decorating contest.
◗ MPC’s Canton, Ohio, refinery
sponsored the Nimishillen Creek
Cleanup Day, and about two dozen
employees volunteered to help
remove litter and other debris from
the waterway.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Robinson, Ill.,
held the “Real World II” event, hosting
students interested in engineering
and sciences for tours of the refinery,
presentations about careers and
interaction with MPC employees. High
school students from Lawrenceville,
Red Hill, Robinson, Hutsonville,
Palestine, Sullivan and Oblong
participated.
◗ MPC employees at its Galveston
Bay refinery in Texas City, Texas,
volunteered at the MPC-sponsored
D’Feet Breast Cancer Celebration of
Life run/walk, raising money to fund
mammograms and follow-up care for
those who cannot afford it.
◗ MPC employees at its Catlettsburg,
Ky., refinery participated in the annual
◗ MPC donated $20,000 to the Feed-AChild Program in Findlay, Ohio. The
organization provides meals, drinks
and snacks to families in need every
weekend during the school year.
◗ MPC transport drivers in Lansing,
Mich., prepared and decorated an MPC
transport truck to participate in the city’s
Silver Bells in the City Christmas parade.
Employees steam-cleaned the truck to
ensure no flammable products were in
it, carefully inspected the vehicle prior
to decorating it with more than 5,000
lights, and walked along with the vehicle
during the parade as an extra measure of
safety.
◗ About two dozen employees from
MPC’s refinery in Canton, Ohio,
Christmas Wish Adopt-A-Family,
providing Christmas gifts for 37 families,
including 86 children.
volunteered in the United Way Day of
Caring, working at the Stark County Job
and Family Services office to help paint,
clean, organize and landscape.
◗ MPC employees at its Robinson, Ill.,
◗ Several musically-inclined MPC
refinery collected and donated 400 pairs
of shoes for people in need through the
global Soles for Souls program.
employees from the company’s
Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City,
Texas, put on performances each
month for residents at Independence
Village, a group home for adults with
developmental disabilities. MPC
employees also become elves each
Christmas, decorating the home inside
and out.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Detroit, Mich.,
donated $10,000 to the Susan G. Komen
Race for the Cure in Detroit, and more
than 60 employees and their family
members participated in the race, raising
another $1,000 in entry fees.
◗ At the Stark County, Ohio, Junior
Fair Beef Auction, MPC employees at its
refinery in Canton, Ohio, successfully
bid for a shorthorn steer, supporting the
Junior Fair, Future Farmers of America
and 4-H.
◗ At the Savage Branch Wildlife
Preserve, MPC’s certified wildlife
habitat near Catlettsburg, Ky., MPC
volunteers hosted 640 students from
Kentucky and West Virginia schools over
15 days, teaching students about the
many aspects of a wildlife habitat and
engaging them in hands-on activities.
MPC employees and family participate in the Race for the Cure in Detroit.
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COMMUNITY
MPC’s headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, earned the Ohio Environmental
Protection Agency’s silver award for Encouraging Environmental Excellence.
◗ MPC employees at its refinery in
Robinson, Ill., organized an Easter egg
hunt to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s
Association.
◗ The Findlay, Ohio, board of health
designated MPC as Public Health
Champion of the Year to recognize
the company’s volunteering of its
headquarters complex as a location to
dispense medication in the event of a
local, state or federal state of emergency,
such as a pandemic.
◗ MPC volunteers from the Canton,
Ohio, refinery sponsored Christmas wish
lists for 33 foster children through the
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio Wish
List Program. Employees purchased,
wrapped and delivered the gifts to the
Children’s Home.
◗ MPC donated $10,000 to the M.I. Lewis
Social Services Center in Dickinson,
Texas, to help pay for its new building.
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The center provides food and financial
assistance to individuals and families
in need.
◗ MPC’s refinery in Detroit, Mich.,
donated $2,500 to help fund Southwest
Detroit Environmental Vision’s annual
Tire Sweep, which collects and properly
disposes of discarded tires in the
southwest Detroit area.
◗ On U.S. Route 23 in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
more than 70 MPC employees, retirees
and family members helped clean up
a section of the highway, collecting 22
bags of debris for proper disposal.
◗ As a finalist for MPC’s President’s
Award for Responsible Care®, MPC’s
refinery in Robinson, Ill., received a
cash prize. Employees at the refinery
voted to donate the money to the Oblong
Children’s Christian Home.
◗ MPC engineers at its headquarters in
Findlay, Ohio, volunteered their time to
provide high school students with career
guidance and hands-on engineering
activities through the Engineering
Explorers program. The program
provides an engineering activity each
month during the school year.
◗ The MPC refinery in Canton,
Ohio, hosted 20 local vocational
technical school students and three
of their instructors at a “Refining
101” presentation and tour of the
refinery, which focused on safety in the
workplace.
◗ MPC’s Robinson, Ill., refinery
sponsored a regional ethics conference
at Indiana State University in Terre
Haute, Ind., where MPC’s head of
Business Integrity and Compliance
delivered a keynote address.