Community: 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 approximately $63 million since 2016 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 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 2025:
  • 48% (10 of 21) of Travelers EDGE graduates were hired full time by Travelers in the 2024-2025 academic year. Of those who accepted full-time positions at Travelers, 60% (6 of 10) were admitted into leadership and technical development programs.
  • As part of ReadyCT’s G.R.I.T. (Get Ready! Immersive Traineeship) program, 27 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 70 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. Travelers sponsored the Safe Home and Safe Auto awards, which were presented at the CIC State Finals event, in which more than 400 young inventors participated. Additionally, through the support of a Travelers grant, a team of Travelers employees organized and hosted a school supply distribution for 20 CIC educators across the state of Connecticut. Lastly, CIC received its first company vehicle through the Recycled Rides^® program.
  • Travelers has partnered with BestPrep’s eMentors 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 2024-2025 academic year, more than 140 Travelers employees volunteered approximately 700 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 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 approximately $51 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 2025:
  • The nonprofit small business support organizations that we partner with reached approximately 170,000 entrepreneurs from various industries and locations.
  • 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 2025, Travelers employees logged more than 7,600 hours on Habitat builds.
  • In addition, we partner with Habitat for Humanity^®, Rebuilding Together and SBP to build homes to IBHS FORTIFIED standards. With our support, this partnership has enabled the construction of approximately 100 FORTIFIED homes.
  • Travelers’ support is helping Team Rubicon, a nonprofit organization that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams after disasters, to rebuild homes in low-attention disaster sites and replace roofs to meet IBHS FORTIFIED standards. 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.
  • We also support military-connected communities through partnerships with American Corporate Partners, the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families, and Code Platoon. Travelers provides workshops, mentoring and training for veteran entrepreneurs, as well as veterans and veterans’ spouses looking to transition into the workplace.
• 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 decade, we have provided approximately $25 million to help keep our communities vibrant. Here are a few examples of how we supported culturally enriched communities in 2025:
  • We partnered with the Greater Hartford Arts Council to provide approximately $530,000 in grants to 17 Hartford-based arts organizations through the Travelers Arts Impact Grant Fund.
  • We made a $1 million commitment to The Wadsworth in Hartford, Connecticut, to restore Wednesday public hours, expanding the museum’s weekly schedule from four to five days. By reinstating Wednesday hours, The Wadsworth is making meaningful progress toward its mission of keeping art accessible and relevant – strengthening the museum’s connection to the city it serves and helping it remain a welcoming, educational and inspiring space for all.
  • 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 2025, our support helped the Ordway provide arts experiences for approximately 45,000 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 meaningful dialogue. For instance, we hosted an event to celebrate the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, in partnership with the New England Air Museum.