Community Support: Our Giving Priorities

We target our giving and volunteerism priorities to help improve academic and career success, develop thriving neighborhoods and create culturally enriched communities.

• Academic and career success. Travelers supports initiatives that create pathways and enhance opportunities for career readiness, access and success. By supporting our communities, these initiatives help address corporate needs for a skilled workforce while directly benefiting the economy. Travelers, directly and through the Travelers Foundation, has provided more than $65.5 million since 2015 to help foster academic success, increase career preparedness and reduce barriers to higher education. Programs such as Travelers EDGE^® (Empowering Dreams for Graduation and Employment), our signature education-to-career pipeline program, are helping to strengthen our communities and build a robust talent pipeline for Travelers for the future. Here are a few examples of how we supported academic and career success in 2024:
  • 48% (12 of 25) of Travelers EDGE graduates were hired full time by Travelers in the 2023-2024 academic year. Of those who accepted full-time positions at Travelers, 58% (7 of 12) were admitted into leadership and technical development programs.
  • As part of ReadyCT’s G.R.I.T. (Get Ready! Immersive Traineeship) program, 25 high school students from Hartford and New Britain, Connecticut, worked with Travelers employees on projects during a five-week summer program. This program included professional development and opportunities to learn more about Travelers and the insurance and financial services industry.
  • More than 120 Travelers employees across the nation served as volunteers and judges for the Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC), an entrepreneurial competition among innovative students in grades K-12. Additionally, Travelers sponsored the Safe Home and Safe Auto Awards, which were presented at the CIC State Finals event, in which more than 300 young inventors participated.
  • Travelers has partnered with BestPrep’s eMentor program since 2007. BestPrep builds meaningful partnerships with schools, companies and other nonprofit partner organizations to prepare Minnesota youth for success in school, their careers and life at low or no cost to students, teachers and schools. During the 2023-2024 academic year, nearly 140 Travelers employees volunteered more than 1,900 hours with BestPrep. Employees served as company coordinators and mentors for the eMentors and Cloud Coach programs. They also served as mock interviewers and Resident Business Leaders at BestPrep’s Minnesota Business Venture summer camp.
• Thriving neighborhoods. Travelers fosters thriving neighborhoods through neighborhood economic development and community-building services to help individuals, families and small businesses understand and mitigate risks, stay safe and prepare for disasters. In the past decade, Travelers has donated nearly $49 million to help make homeownership possible, help rebuild after natural disasters and better position small businesses for success. Travelers’ efforts to promote thriving neighborhoods include the Small Business Support program, which leverages our employees’ expertise to help small business owners gain access to training and financial resources, and Travelers Fortifies Communities, which is focused on building affordable, wind-resistant homes to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) FORTIFIED standards throughout the country. Here are a few examples of how we supported thriving neighborhoods in 2024:
  • The nonprofit small business support organizations that we partner with reached approximately 150,000 entrepreneurs from various industries and locations. 
  • Nearly 70 FORTIFIED homes were built with our support across the country in partnership with Habitat for Humanity^®, SBP and Team Rubicon.
  • Travelers’ support enabled Team Rubicon to rebuild 15 homes in low-attention disaster sites. Low-attention disasters are devastating weather events that affect communities but are not large enough in scale to draw the government, media and philanthropic responses triggered by major events.
  • Travelers has partnered with Habitat for Humanity^® International since 2008. The organization engages in new construction and renovates existing buildings in many communities, particularly in urban areas, to create decent, safe and affordable housing. Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the United States and Canada partner with Travelers offices to engage employees in volunteer builds. Participation provides opportunities for employee involvement in the community, team building and networking. In 2024, Travelers employees logged more than 7,900 hours on Habitat builds.
• Culturally enriched communities. Travelers supports organizations that enrich lives through arts and culture, both as a lever for academic improvement and to foster cultural vitality in communities where our employees live and work. During the past 10 years, we have provided more than $24.5 million to keep our communities vibrant. Here are a few examples of how we supported culturally enriched communities in 2024:
  • We partnered with the Greater Hartford Arts Council to provide more than $500,000 in grants to 15 Hartford-based arts organizations through the Travelers Arts Impact Grant Fund.
  • We are a longtime partner of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota, providing sponsorship and grant support for the center’s education programs. In 2024, our support helped the Ordway provide arts experiences for approximately 59,000 local students, teachers and artists. Overall, the Ordway engaged more than 200,000 individuals through varied paid and free activities on the stage or in the community.
  • We continued our Travelers Art Speaks initiative, which provides employees with the opportunity to participate in art experiences and engage in inclusive conversations. For instance, we celebrated Black History Month with a series of virtual events focused on film, theater and music, and during National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we hosted a virtual event featuring artwork by artists with disabilities. 

We also continue to support military-connected communities through partnerships with the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Code Platoon. Travelers provides workshops and training for veteran entrepreneurs, as well as veterans and veterans’ spouses looking to transition into the workplace. Travelers was recognized as Code Platoon’s 2024 Partner of the Year.