It's time now for our community connection right here on O K one, the
one you trust. We have a friends in from Philip sixty six. Janet
Hardy, you brought friends. How you doing youngly? I'm doing well.
How are you sounding? Miss Jen? It is so. I'm Jenny Brown.
I oversee the community engagement part of the company, and I'm also the
corporate archivist for the company. Wow in any Philip sixty six, shooes your
gal. My goodness, my goodness. We brought the heavy art, Hillary,
and didn't we. We've had a pretty cool month so far at Phillip
sixty six. And it's a good energy month. And tell us what's good
energy you mean, do Philip sixty six? Yeah? Absolutely so. About
four years ago the company decided to brand April Good Energy Month. And really
what that means is that's just our month to really focus on volunteerism in our
communities. And so that's not just here in Bartlesville, although we're going to
tell you about all the great things we've done here, but it's company wide,
so you're thinking thousands and thousand of ours, hundreds of employees who are
out in their communities across the country. Volunteering, doing good work, and
spreading good energy just across the places. That's something that we're incredibly passionate about
is giving back in the places where we live and where we operate and the
Boy and nothing says that like investing in your community and investing in education too.
How some of the yet nice little love tidings that we've spread around here
a little bit, Yeah, do you want to jump in and talk about
some of them? Let's do that. Yeah, we're at the end of
the month. Yeah, so we've done a lot and there's still more to
come. Yeah, and there's several of them, so I'm just going to
kind of cheat and go through my list here. So we started off with
junior achievement, so we went into two different elementary schools, So we went
into Wilson's School and Ranch Heights and helped with junior achievement. And then we
helped the Boys and Girls Club over in Dewey and help there, and then
the Bartlesville Boys and Girls Club here in Bartlesville, we helped with the the
outdoor basketball court there, and then we also helped with the Harley Burn Party.
This set it up so we got ready for the fundraiser there, and
then this past Saturday we helped we held the Operation Clean House. We had
over forty volunteers there. I think there was one hundred and thirty five volunteers
and forty of those were Phillips employees helping with that Operation Clean House. And
this morning we have about twenty five employees at out at wool Rock volunteering at
the grounds there. And then we have two more operations happening at Past Independence
and then another one happening at the Kitty Park. So there's all kinds of
all kinds of projects. Ladies hit them all well. And then we also
did the Community center too, So if you've been over at Unity Square and
you see all the nice new moult we've done that project in the past before.
It is as a big project, so lots of sweat equity went into
making that space beautiful and ready to go, ready to go for the summer.
So kind of across April and tag on a couple of days next week
we'll have here in Bartlesville around two hundred and twenty employees so I have volunteered
their time across nine nonprofit organizations. This is amazing. It's really a really
cool thing. I want to talk a little bit about STEM because you know,
when I first came to town, I'm just kind of surprised. I'm
walking through Madison Middle School, my daughter's new school. I'm seeing the Phillip
sixty six shield out there, and I'm going ask a few questions, and
they said, well, they're quite the community partner. They've got a lot
to add to what we do around here. And STEM is the big word.
Tell us a little bit about that, because you had a little bit
of a hand in that, didn't you listen. I think that started around
twenty fourteen and Phillips was able to give it was one point seven million dollars
to that to the Barthol Public schools and it did end up going to the
two middle schools and to the high school, and it's grown over the years
as more and more classes have been added. The Grandemtter was very, very
instrumental in helping us with that and get it, you know, get it
to where it is today. But yes, the project lead the Way is
what you know has made it more successful. But yes, there was a
team of seven of us that at Bartos at Phillips that were able to make
that happen. So yeah, we're very very very happy that it's you know,
continued to be more successful. Well, there are a whole slew of
kids who are very very thankful because all of a sudden, they're doing a
lot of things that are quote cool. There used to be that's only from
the kids. Yeah, well now it's it's for everybody. There's no barrier,
and they really feel like this is something that's very approachable. This is
something I want to do, this is this is a good challenge for me.
And you know that speaks volumes in education because you got to have engagement
or it's just not going to happen. Well, and you know, as
a company, we have four giving pillars and one of them is education equality,
and so the STEM Labs completely fall into that area. Right. We
want to make sure that yes we're a smaller community, but our kids still
have the same access to things that they may have somewhere else. Right,
So we're talking hands on robotics, we're talking computer science. These students are
are coding in middle school, you know, and we just believe that the
younger you can expose them to these type to these type of things, you
know, you spark that passion early and you know a little bit selfishly,
we hope on the back end when they graduate one day, you know,
that they can potentially come to Phillip sixty six right and have an amazing you
know, engineering career or I career or whatever it is that they may be
interested in. And so it's been really awesome to see it thrive in Bartlesville,
you know, just talking to to Chuck and Granger. Over the years,
their numbers just continue to skyrocket and their SIM programs. The female students
interested in SIM is way higher than it used to be, and so we're
just thankful that we're able to continue to support that through Project Lya the Way
curriculum as well as thank you. This is fun, Yeah, yeah,
yeah. What are some of the other pillars that we have? You're talking
about education is one of the giving pillders. What are the others? It's
the second one is the environment, and we give back to that through Operation
Clean House, which I think we've had people from Phillips come in and discuss
that with you. Yes, that so we've discussed that one. And then
giving back to that we give two different we help other different nonprofit through that
and then the other one is safety and well Being, which we give to
different organizations back through that, and then the other other one is just social
So we give to many different non about seventy five different nonprofits throughout the year.
Yeah, one of them in the safety area that we're really proud of
is our partnership with Washington County Emergency Management. So I think Carrie was probably
in fairly recently. But if you've seen that big communications trailer that they drive
around and are able to take to incidents when they need it, you know
that's something that Philip City six and Genue were instrumental in the funding on that
and not only buying the trailer but outfitting it with all of the technology to
go into it. And again, like we have employees who volunteer for that
organization, and so we actually have one in it and he's a volunteer there
and he actually helped outfit the trailer right using the knowledge networking knowledge that he
has to do that and to give back. And then we have a volunteer
employee grant program and so all of the hours that our employees volunteer in the
community that actually equates to dollars that also goes to that organization. So twenty
five dollars for every hour that you volunteer at an organization, they get that
money back in cash. So it's a when when type of situation. Yeah,
this kind of participation at work and away from work together, I mean,
it builds a lot of teamwork. It also builds a different way of
engaging with your co workers in a completely different environment and you get to see
each other differently. Yeah too. Yeah, it's good energy. It's a
very good energy. Yeah, that's why it's good. Yeah, and it
really it shows, you know, it really shows. Yeah, you know,
you've got to be proud of all the good things that are happening in
the way that it falls together. It's so true. And you know,
on top of good energy, obviously, we're huge supporters of United Way.
So pretty soon we'll kick off all of the planning for our fall United Way
campaign, the golf tournament that of course we do in partnership with Phillips,
So it's a good say just that little golf term. Yeah, just a
small little thing. Yeah, I've been I'm involved with that from first year,
so that that that's a whole nother that's a whole nother chapter. That's
a whole other chapter. Well, you know, that thing brings in not
only a great deal of revenue for the United Way, but also for our
community. Really, and believe it or not, there are people who just
kind of showed up here to play golf and the next thing, you know,
five years later, there are residents here. You know, it all
starts with a visit. I wonder how that happened, right, But anyway,
it's always a good thing and a great thing. I don't know how
you guys pull it off every year. I'm not even gonna ask, because
I think I would be just blown away. But just thank you for doing
that. And now you're the archivist historian a lot of people a lot of
times maybe historian maybe okay, because all of a sudden, I'm seeing you
with the glasses late at night. Just why and serial numbers down on little
things. And at the downtown there is a corporate archives down in the basement
area of the building. And it used to be where we could do external
request, where we could assist with that, but we can only just assist
with the internal request now, so we only just help just internal internally now.
So the fun facts about folks head alone. Yeah, we did the
the museum through that years and years ago. So but so don't don't start
giving out my name and number for people to start calling me, going she
can help you with anything, because I will come back and say I'm sorry,
I can no longer we can get that externally anymore. No, no,
no, yeah, yeah, so she's got a life. Well,
I tell us a little bit more about the Phillip sixty six and then what's
what's on the horizon. And we've got a few things coming up here in
May at the Big Golf Tournament, it's coming up this fall. But Philip
sixty six hands as a gentle handed just about anything and everything in town,
everything from some of the things that we have here at our community center to
just about well even the kids. Where do they swim? Well, they
got the Splash Club and they've got the Phillips sixty six pool there, and
like I said, it just touches a variety of different points in a lot
of people's lives, and some folks might not really realize that. Yeah,
we definitely are thankful that we're able to have our hands and a lot of
things. So, you know you mentioned swim, We'll have. We'll have
some partnerships this summer with the Splash Club to offer some swim lessons for students
who may not have that opportunity otherwise. You know, we're big supporters of
the Bartlesville Community Foundation, So if you're going to see the Broadway in Bartlesville
series as it wraps up this summer, you know, we helped to provide
that opportunity as well. You mentioned United Way, which will be becoming,
you know, and I think one of the coolest things next week. You
know, Past the Independence is such a beloved organization in our community and back
in the fall, and he was able to to kick off a project with
them, you know, as they as they renovate their building right and that
we're right, you know, and that sort of thing. We kind of
were able to pull on our environment pillar right of our of our giving and
we actually put in a bicycle path around their playgrounds so those students and have
a safe place to ride their bikes during the day, and then helped with
some landscaping. But then next week, now that it's spring, we have
employees going out to plan a sensory garden for the students that you have kept
Claire back in to discuss it. Yeah, but I actually what's going on.
There are just a few houses down from where I live and another large
contribution that we give us to Frank Phillips Foundation or to Wollock too. That's
that's going That's one of our very large and what a jemned is in our
region, not just our city, but I mean just the whole region absolutely,
and I just love I love the full circle moments of Bartlesville. Right.
So you know, we have this great partnership with wool Rock. We
have employees out there today working on landscaping, and then Thursday I'll be out
there with my first grader and with this Wilson Elementary you know field trip,
right and we'll get to enjoy the grounds. And I think that's just part
of the beauty of living and working here and having these moments of full circle.
I want to thank you both for being here today ensuring so good.
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