Community Involvement
 

At Chubb, community involvement, philanthropy and volunteer initiatives are cornerstones of our belief in the importance of engaging with our local communities and responding to needs where we work and live.

A core component of our corporate philanthropy program is Chubb’s Matching Gifts Program, through which we match employee donations of $50 or more on a dollar-for-dollar basis (up to a specified maximum) to most tax-exempt charitable organizations.

At the local level, Chubb employees are involved in a wide range of volunteer and social activities. Recent examples include:

• Since 2008, IT employees in New Jersey have raised more than $75,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation to fund research into finding a cure for type 1 diabetes.
• Over six years, Claim employees at the Warren headquarters have raised $75,000 for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, striking multiple blows to hunger.
• Chubb employees volunteer their time with Junior Achievement New Jersey at Lincoln School in Newark, New Jersey, to help improve students’ financial literacy skills and promote a love of reading.
• Westchester and New York City branch employees help sponsor Girls Inc.'s financial literacy and career conferences and fund raisers to benefit girls, their mothers and guardians.
• Employees at three Claim Service Centers donate supplies to help the American Red Cross provide comfort kits to disaster victims.
• Baltimore, Maryland, staff commit to a year of breakfasts for Ronald McDonald House guest families.
• Virtual Quality Assurance team walks in a Boston Light the Night fund raiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of a colleague's survivor spouse.
• In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, volunteers support Habitat for Humanity's "A Brush With Kindness" initiative, painting and installing drywall at an existing low-income residences.
• Active and retired employees in Seattle, Washington, participate in United Way Day of Caring, restoring the grounds at Compass Housing Alliance, which provides housing and services for Seattle's homeless and poor.

While most of our efforts are conducted at the local level, Chubb’s Corporate Contributions Committee manages the distribution of donations to a wide variety of education, civic and cultural programs, and medical programs.

Chubb also offers two major opportunities for employees to get involved in organization-wide North American fund raising. We have long conducted a yearly organization-wide campaign to help United Way’s community support initiatives.

And since 1999, the annual Chubb Charity Challenge has allowed agents, brokers and customers to participate in a charitable golf tournament that benefits local worthy organizations.

In 2012, some 330 teams participated in qualifying rounds across North America, collectively raising $925,000 that was distributed to dozens of local charities selected by our agents and clients. Since its inception, the Charity Challenge has raised nearly $11 million for charitable organizations.

The following video was shown to participants at the culmination of the 2012 event.