United Way of the Bay Area has honored Chevron Corporation with its highest philanthropic award the, Spirit of the Bay.  This prestigious award is presented to a single Bay Area business each year that exceeds all others in community involvement.

Building on the company's tradition of giving, Chevron’s Bay Area employees pledged more than $2.5 million during last fall's giving campaign to all non-profits. Combined with a corporate gift to United Way of the Bay Area, the total amount pledged by employees and the Corporation exceeds $4 million. 

In addition to the Spirit of the Bay award, United Way also presented awards to 37 companies in recognition of their contribution in specific categories of United Way support.

This year's award winners were:

Gold

Chevron

UPS

BRE Properties, Inc.

Silver

Bank of America

Comcast Cable

The Dow Chemical Company

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Gordon & Rees, LLP

New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.
(NUMMI)

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker LLP

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Valero Benicia Refinery

Wells Fargo & Company

Bronze

AT&T Corporation

Bay Area Newsgroup
East Bay

Bloomingdale’s

Dodge & Cox, Inc.

Federal Express

GPSG, A unit of Alza Corporation

SamTrans

Target Corporation

Anchor

ACCO Engineered
Systems, Inc.

Ball Metal Container Group

Costco

Dodge & Cox, Inc.

ITW J&B Aviation

ITW Signode Western

Men and Women of Organized Labor

UPS

Valero Benicia Refinery

Wells Fargo & Company

Unique Partnerships

California State Employees Charitable Campaign

Deloitte

Wachovia Corporation

Community Collaboration

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Eden I&R

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