Community Investment

We believe in investing professional expertise, volunteer time and financial resources to address environmental and social issues that affect the communities where we live and work.
 
We are committed to sustainability; to protecting and preserving our planet’s natural resources and to inspiring and educating a diverse and inclusive future workforce that will help solve the environmental and engineering challenges of tomorrow.
 
We support our employees as community citizens; their concern, passion and spirit of service make a meaningful and lasting impact on people and communities around the world.
 
CH2M HILL focuses strategic community investment efforts on environmental sustainability initiatives and educating a diverse future workforce.
  • Sustainability: Supporting organizations with a commitment to addressing water and energy issues and promoting environmental stewardship.
  • Educational Outreach: Fostering interest in engineering careers through K-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and university programs.

CH2M HILL supports the following programs on a national or global level:
 
Engineers Week Water For People
 

Program Highlights

SaveTheWorldPoster
CH2M HILL Challenges Local Students to Uncover New Ways to Reduce their Carbon footprint

For the second year in a row the Spartanburg office reached out to local schools and invited students in grades K-12 to participate in a sustainably-themed poster competition.

SAWS Runners
CH2M HILL sponsors fun run

CH2M HILL was the title sponsor for a June 2 fun run/walk/fundraiser organized by the San Antonio Water System (SAWS).   The family-oriented event, which attracted 350 runners and walkers, raised about $14,000 for the water utility’s...

Olympics2
Providing life changing experiences to young disabled people

CH2M HILL’s Barking, Essex-United Kingdom office provided voluntary assistance to WheelPower and the five Olympic Boroughs (Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest) during the annual Time to Shine event. Time to...

ChaseCC CHTeam
CH2M HILL Chicago Takes On the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge

CH2M HILL Chicago employees showed their spirit in the Chicago JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge. The Corporate Challenge, “Teaming Up For a Greener Tomorrow,” has the end-goal of being the “greenest” road race in the world...

CH2M HILL Employee Plans Water For People Trip to Rwanda

Diana F’s extensive international experience in Gabon, Africa and Peru fueled her passion to become a chemical engineer specializing in wastewater. During her six years in Gabon, Diana witnessed firsthand what it was like to physically...

Boonshoft KidScientist
CH2M HILL Initiative Builds a Water Resources Display at a Dayton Museum

A simple suggestion at a staff meeting in Dayton, Ohio, led to a community-wide effort to create a permanent exhibit regarding water resources at a local museum. In the fall of 2011, The Splash! Exhibit opened at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery to...

ShanghaiBookGiving Dicitonaries
One Dictionary for Every Student

The Shanghai office recently organized a book donation to a Tibetan school in a low-income rural area. Local CH2M HILL volunteers drove 60 kilometers to a primary school located in the Lhasa Capital. The goal of the activity was to give one...

SouthFloridaMiniGolf Feb2012
Florida Offices Design and Build Mini-Golf Hole for Fundraiser

CH2M HILL South Florida offices sponsored the Miami-Dade Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) First Annual Scholarship Mini-Golf Tournament held at Zoo Miami. The fundraiser helped raise money for scholarships that the...

StLouisBikes
St. Louis Office Supports Second Annual Bike Program

As part of their continued support of underprivileged youth, employees in the St. Louis office participated in a bike donation event for the second year in a row. This year the office purchased 10 bikes through a local bike shop. Employee volunteers...

PR Contacts

Ellen Sandberg Phone: +1.720.286.4984 Ellen.Sandberg@ch2m.com

CH2M HILL Foundation supports environmental stewardship; science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education; and employee engagement.

CH2M HILL provides financial support to U.K. programmes focused on education, social investment and work inclusion.

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