BASF Corporation employees are very active in the communities where they live and work. Our site communities can count on the company's active involvement in educational, civic, and charitable causes.
The following site profiles provide an overview of such outreach activities.

Florham Park | Freeport | Geismar | Monaca | Port Arthur | Shreveport | Whitehouse

Florham Park , New Jersey (Regional Headquarters)
The BASF Florham Park, New Jersey, site is actively involved in helping to make the quality of life in Morris County, New Jersey, better.

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BASF Freeport employees have also demonstrated a 'can-do approach' to meeting the needs of their local community through their generous contributions to United Way campaigns. They are important partners in helping improve the quality of life in Brazoria County, Texas.

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• Adopt-a-School (Galvez Middle School);
• Process Technology (P-TECH) training and scholarships
• Junior Achievement
• Cooperative Education Program

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The BASA Monaca, Pennsylvania, site is an active participant in the United Way, the Ohio River Sweep clean-up project, local educational partnerships, and the Local Emergency Planning Commission (LEPC).

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BASF is donating $500,000 to create "Celebrate Success," a new program that will reward the achievements of thousands of Jefferson County, Texas, students with free tickets to events at Ford Arena. BASF will make the donation to Jefferson County in $100,000 annual installments over a five-year period. A student recognition alliance will be established to determine the distribution of recognition rewards. Participating school districts and area non-profit organizations will establish their own criteria for rewarding students with the free tickets. School districts participating in the program are Port Neches-Groves, Nederland, Port Arthur and Beaumont. Non-profit organizations participating are Boys Haven, Girls Haven, Buckner's Children's Village, Communities in Schools, I Have a Dream, and Ben's Kids among others.

The site's "Partnership For A Better Community" is a concept of uniting the strengths of groups in the community to maximize synergy and benefits. By uniting BASF employees, resources, and influence with other groups, such as industry, business, education, government, and non-profit organizations, more can be accomplished together than by individual organizations acting alone.

The ABC Scholarship Program is an excellent example of this philosophy in action. The goal of the program was to mentor economically disadvantaged individuals seeking to enter the construction trades and to remove barriers hindering their success. More than 150 individuals have benefited from the program. The program was developed by BASF and ATOFINA Petrochemicals, Inc., and enlisted 35 mentors from the community, the Port Arthur City Council, the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), the Texas Workforce Center, and BASF and FINA employees. BASF, ATOFINA, ABB Lummus Global, and Zachry Construction Company gave a $200,000 grant to this program.

Other examples of Partnership For A Better Community include:

• The company leveraged a Production Technician training program, building strong relations with Lamar State College in Port Arthur and Brazosport Community College through a training partnership.
  
• The company built a partnership between Bridge City Fire and Rescue and BASF employees to train 4,000 Bridge City elementary school students in fire prevention during Fire Prevention Week.
  
• White Christmas - employees helped to gather gifts for needy children.
  
• Blood drive - through employee championing, a 73 percent participation was achieved in the first year.
  
• A donation of $50,000 to the ABC Welding Laboratory.
  
• Gift of Life - breast cancer screening sponsorship included a $5,000 corporate gift.

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• An Outstanding Chemistry Student Scholarship program for local high school students; additional outreach to Anthony Wayne High School includes National Chemistry Week, tours of the Whitehouse complex, and supporting after-prom activities, as well as the homework hotline, yearbook and athletic activities.
• Middle School outreach program including 6th grade mini-science program.
• Supporting the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council's TIE (Teachers in Education) program that presents new information for teachers to bring to the classroom. In addition to financial support, employees actively participate in the program and are represented on the TIE Educational Board.
• Establishing a partnership with Bowling Green State University's Academic Investment in Math and Science program, which offers a mix of intensive summer classes, mentoring and cholarships to women and minority students showing advanced ability in math, computer science, and the natural sciences.
• Additional support to local emergency response groups, food banks, parks and recreation programs and science related programs with a nearby university.

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