Connecting with
Our Communities
2025 Community Report
Through our giving and volunteer efforts, we are connecting with our communities by improving academic and career success, developing thriving neighborhoods and creating culturally enriched communities.
This report highlights initiatives that reflect our collective impact and our dedication to helping shape a brighter future for the communities we serve.
By the Numbers
We gave approximately $24 million to our communities in 2025, bringing us to more than $237 million over the past decade.
Select a category to see the breakdown of our giving.*
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in charitable donations for matching gifts and volunteer rewards to 5,400+ organizations.
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volunteer hours logged by our employees.
$1 million
raised by employees through our Community Connections Campaign, which supports United Way and its partner organizations across the country.
Employee Volunteer Spotlight
Annette Erazo shares why she volunteers with Happy Hope Foundation in the video below.
Improving Academic and Career Success
In 2025, we dedicated $6.3 million to support educational initiatives.
Travelers EDGE®
(Empowering Dreams for Graduation and Employment)
Through this comprehensive program, we partner with high schools, colleges, universities and community-based organizations to provide students with the resources they need to earn bachelor’s degrees and prepare for careers at Travelers or within the insurance industry.
During the 2024–2025 academic year:
students completed bachelor’s degrees.
graduates obtained full-time positions at Travelers.
Since 2007:
students completed bachelor’s degrees.
graduates obtained full-time positions at Travelers.
Hear from 2025 graduate Madison Bagioni as she discusses her Travelers EDGE journey.
Learn more about the program here.
Junior Achievement
We have a longstanding partnership with Junior Achievement (JA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing financial literacy skills to youth across the U.S. Through our support, JA has launched insurance learning lab “storefronts” in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, and Minnesota to teach students about insurance basics and help them develop financial literacy to prepare for future success.
We also provided more than $175,000 in financial assistance, as well as 1,558 employee volunteer hours, to several JA organizations across the U.S. and Canada over the past year.
Hartford Promise
We are a founding partner of Hartford Promise, a scholarship and integrated college success program for Hartford public school graduates.
In 2025, we deepened our investment by committing $1 million over four years to the Greater Futures Scholarship Fund, a collaboration between Hartford Promise and the Greater Hartford Gives Foundation, which will provide each eligible Hartford Promise Scholar with up to $100,000 to support their educational journeys.
BestPrep
We have been a partner of BestPrep and its eMentor program since 2007, helping to build meaningful partnerships with schools, companies and other nonprofit partner organizations to prepare Minnesota youth for success.
During the 2024–2025 academic year, nearly 145 employees volunteered more than 700 hours with BestPrep, serving as company coordinators, mentors and mock interviewers.
Connecticut Invention Convention
We continue to be a key sponsor of innovation awards at the Connecticut Invention Convention State Finals and serve as judges for student inventions. This year, employees also helped assemble more than $5,000 worth of school supplies to help educators across the state.
Here are the two Travelers-sponsored awardees:
Kyleigh and Mackenzie
Fourth and Fifth Graders
Kyleigh and Mackenzie won the Travelers Safe Auto Award for their “Seat Belt Fun” invention, a Velcro-secured pillow for seat belts, designed with loops and carabiners to hold toys and other small items. This invention will prevent kids’ toys from falling and should reduce distractions for parents while they are behind the wheel.
June
Eighth Grader
June won the Travelers Safe Home Award for her “Safe Swap Smoke Detector,” which features an improved mounting system and a tool that allows for easy and safe device removal and battery replacement from the ground.
In the News
See the news coverage below:
Developing Thriving Neighborhoods
In 2025, we provided $6.1 million to organizations dedicated to helping our communities thrive.
Travelers Fortifies Communities
Through the Travelers Fortifies Communities program, we continue to partner with Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together, SBP, and Smart Home America to build homes to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety’s FORTIFIED™ standards.
We continue to support SBP, a nationally recognized leader in comprehensive disaster resilience and recovery, to rebuild homes in disaster-impacted communities to FORTIFIED standards. In the past year, our funding helped SBP build 94 roofs to FORTIFIED standards. In addition, we also supported the construction of SBP’s first FORTIFIED, ENERGY STAR® multifamily rental homes in Houston and New Orleans in 2024, and tenants took up residence in 2025.
Since 2018, we’ve partnered with Smart Home America, an organization that works to educate leaders, residents and the construction industry about smarter products and techniques that help to build sustainable communities.
Most recently, our funding allowed the organization to provide policy education in 13 states, and support 19 nonprofit developers in building homes to FORTIFIED standards.
We recently launched a pilot program with Rebuilding Together, a leading nonprofit in safe and healthy housing.
Through its Disaster Readiness and Recovery program, the organization offers disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and long-term recovery support.
With our funding, Rebuilding Together helped put four FORTIFIED roofs on homes in the Tampa Bay region recovering from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
In the News
Learn more about the Travelers Fortifies Communities initiative in the news coverage below.
California Wildfire Response
In response to the wildfires in California, we announced a commitment of $1 million to assist with relief efforts. Funds supported All Hands and Hearts, California Community Foundation, International Medical Corps and Team Rubicon.
Employees across California also assembled 2,700 hygiene kits, filled with toothbrushes, toothpaste, body wash and other personal sanitary items purchased from The Happy Hope Foundation. Once packed, the kits were shipped to the Union Rescue Mission and distributed to shelters housing wildfire victims.
Partnering with American Forests
Employees from Spokane, Washington, partnered with American Forests and The Lands Council to help maintain trees along the city’s Appleway Trail, a popular urban greenway. Employees hauled water, spread mulch, picked up trash and weeded garden beds. All their work ensured that the 700 newly planted trees along the trail would be able to thrive.
In Glendale, Arizona, 50 employees, partners and agents rolled up their sleeves and planted a variety of trees suited to the environment at O’Neil Park. Located in the Phoenix metro area, the park is a hub for community activities.
Rebuilding Community
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Barnardsville, North Carolina, is a close-knit community of roughly 600 people—the kind of place where neighbors know each other by name. When Hurricane Helene tore through in September 2024, it left behind a trail of destruction: Homes were destroyed, roads and bridges were swept away, access to food was limited and cherished community gathering places were left in ruin.
In October 2025, we undertook an initiative to help Barnardsville heal. Nearly 60 employees from our Charlotte and Knoxville offices joined business leaders to distribute food to families in need, restore community spaces, and break ground on rebuilding a home for a local firefighter who had been a pillar of strength for his neighbors—tirelessly helping others recover while searching for a permanent home for his own family.
That project was completed in spring 2026—one more step forward for a community that has faced so much, and a reminder of what’s possible when people show up for one another.
Levo International
Hartford employees joined forces with Levo International to help battle food insecurity in the city’s North End. Together, they built greenhouses and hydroponic systems that will grow a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round.
In the News
Learn more about the volunteer event in the news coverage below:
Employee Building with Habitat for Humanity
We have a longstanding partnership with Habitat for Humanity. In 2025, we provided more than $700,000 in funding for its programming, and employees logged 7,600 hours across more than 40 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Travelers Championship
The Travelers Championship raised more than $4 million for 245 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, employees dedicated over 21,000 volunteer hours to support the event.
Transforming Local Playgrounds in the UK
Employees from our Travelers Europe offices dedicated a day to upgrading the Three Corners Adventure Playground in London, through a partnership with Awesome Adventure Play. Volunteers pitched in to garden, upcycle furniture and design murals that featured the Travelers umbrella.
Creating Culturally Enriched Communities
In 2025, we provided $3 million in funding to organizations focused on arts and culture.
Travelers Art Speaks
Travelers Art Speaks leverages our investment in arts and cultural organizations to spark meaningful and thought-provoking dialogue with employees.
Since its launch, the program has reached 7,750 employees through 40 experiences, both virtual and in person.
In 2025, nearly 1,250 employees attended events hosted by Travelers Art Speaks.
We co-hosted a virtual program that shared the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, in partnership with the New England Air Museum.
We also hosted an exhibit from the Military Women’s Memorial, honoring American servicewomen.
New York City Ballet
We continued our Global sponsorship of New York City Ballet—a partnership that we’ve had since 2014.
We partnered with The Wadsworth to host an event where more than 100 students from Hartford schools had the opportunity to experience the magic of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® and listen to a Q&A with dancers to learn about careers in ballet.
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
We are a longtime partner of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota, providing sponsorship and grant support for the center’s education programs.
In 2025, our support helped the Ordway provide arts experiences for approximately 45,000 students, teachers, and artists. Overall, the Ordway engaged more than 244,000 individuals through varied paid and free activities on the stage and in the community.
Greater Hartford Arts Council
We partnered with Greater Hartford Arts Council to provide approximately $530,000 in grants to support 17 Hartford-based organizations. The grants support the organizations’ operating and programming budgets.
We also continued our “Music on the Plaza” series in summer 2025, as part of the organization’s mission to help people strengthen their community through the arts, while supporting artists in the Hartford area. Our employees were able to enjoy a variety of performances during their lunch hour.
The Wadsworth
We made a $1 million commitment to The Wadsworth to help the museum restore its Wednesday hours for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant, which will span across five years, will help The Wadsworth make meaningful progress toward its mission of keeping art accessible to the city of Hartford and surrounding communities.