Responding Remotely to Community Needs

In the midst of the pandemic, our Community Relations team quickly developed virtual volunteer opportunities and has continued to expand the creative possibilities for our employees to have a positive impact on their communities.

Career Development

• A team of Travelers employees from Business Insurance and teams of interns and first-year participants from our Leadership Development Programs participated in career panels for Junior Achievement programs in Hartford schools.
• Employees led weekly, virtual professional development workshops for Pathways Entrepreneurial Labs, a program that provides work-based learning and enrichment to high school students in the Hartford area.

Mentoring & Support

• More than 140 employees helped to make a difference for high school students by volunteering with BestPrep’s Cloud Coach and eMentors programs, which focus on one-on-one email mentoring to help students better understand career paths and identify potential workplace skills. In 2021, we increased our engagement to include employees outside of Minnesota; over 200 employees participated.
• During the 2021-2022 school year, more than 30 employees have been reading “live” on a weekly basis to students through a virtual program with Read to a Child.
• In 2021, more than a dozen Hartford-based employees volunteered weekly as math tutors for high school students.
• Travelers employees served as virtual mentors to graduating seniors, helping them with college planning.
• More than a dozen Travelers employees volunteered as mentors and panelists for Resource, a joint initiative of Village Capital and the Black Innovation Alliance, to provide resources to entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by and focused on Black, Latinx and Indigenous entrepreneurs. Mentors shared their expertise in business development, team building and operations management in one-to-one and small group sessions with the ESOs.
• 100 Travelers Women & Allies Diversity Network members in Canada gathered virtually for a letter-writing campaign for girls across Canada to provide them with extra support and encouragement during pandemic remote learning restrictions.

Community Connections

• During National Hispanic Heritage Month, 63 members of the Travelers Hispanic/Latino & Allies Diversity Network recorded translated versions of children’s books for Hope Reads, a free online listening library for hospitalized and homeless children nationwide.
• 35 Travelers employees and 45 Travelers EDGE® scholars, alumni and partners volunteered to create hundreds of clay hearts that are included in Art with a Heart’s 25th anniversary sculpture, a new public art asset for Baltimore.
• Over the summer and holidays, Travelers employees sent cards and handmade snowflakes to campers of The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp – a camp for seriously ill children.

Community Benefits

• Although many nonprofit organizations were unable to continue with traditional, in-person volunteer activities, they were able to continue to benefit from the expertise, skill and compassion of Travelers employees through virtual volunteering programs.

Travelers Benefits

• Employees continued to serve their communities and appreciated that Travelers provided a menu of safe, meaningful experiences that reinforced the company’s commitment to supporting cities where they live and work.