Chesapeake Mentoring Program
Created in 1995 as one of the company's first volunteer programs, the Chesapeake Mentoring Program reaches more than 450 inner city school children. Oklahoma City Chesapeake employees volunteer an hour of their time mentoring students at one of four inner-city schools close to the company's headquarters: Harding Charter Preparatory High School, Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School, North Highland Math and Science Academy and Horace Mann Elementary, where a mentor is provided for every student at the school.
Since the program began, Chesapeake employees have impacted the lives of thousands of children. The results have improved reading scores, decreased drop-out rates, and created positive relationships between students and volunteers, and encouraged support for other events to support the schools in a number of ways, including donating school supplies, warm coats for winter and toy drives for the holidays. The selfless spirit of "giving back" from thousands of Chesapeake mentors over the years has made the Chesapeake Mentoring Program the largest corporate mentoring program in the state of Oklahoma.