A respected community member
Being a respected community member is part of our vision. We are committed to volunteering our energy and making charitable contributions—it’s a part of what Aera was founded upon.
At Aera, supporting and strengthening the communities in which we operate is inherent to culture. And it’s more than just handing out checks: it’s about people coming together and taking action to help our communities thrive.
Giving highlights
In addition to volunteer and mentoring efforts, Aera provides targeted financial support to more than 100 community organizations each year. Some of our most visible community investments include:
- Solar Project at the Boys and Girls Club of Kern County
- Aera West Hills Community College MESA Lab & Study Lounge in Coalinga
- Aera STEM Success Center at Bakersfield College
- Aera Park—a 22-acre City of Bakersfield youth baseball complex
- Aera Energy Concentration in Occupational Safety and Health Management at CSU Bakersfield
- Aera Energy Gymnasium at the Westside Recreation and Park District
Organizations we support
- Bakersfield City School District
- Bakersfield College
- Bradley Union School District
- California State University, Bakersfield
- California State University, Channel Islands
- Coalinga-Huron Joint Unified School District
- Colorado School of Mines
- Kern County Science Foundation
- Kern County Superintendent of Schools
- Kern High School District Education Foundation
- Lemoore High School
- Maricopa Unified School District
- Montana Tech of The University of Montana
- San Ardo Union Elementary School District
- South High School, Bakersfield
- Taft City School District
- Taft College Foundation
- Taft Union High School District
- Ventura Education Partnership
- Ventura County Office of Education
- West Hills College, Coalinga
Health & Human Services
- American Cancer Society
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno County
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Ventura County
- Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) of Kern County
- Food Share of Ventura County
- Fresno County Fire Protection District
- Friends of Mercy Foundation (past)
- Garden Pathways, Bakersfield
- INROADS
- Kern Community Foundation
- Kern Literacy Council
- NatureTrack Foundation
- RISE – North County Women’s Shelter & Resource Center
- San Joaquin Community Hospital – Grossman Burn Center (past)
- San Luis Obispo Food Bank
- Society for Disabled Children – Kern County
- Stop the Violence, Kern County
- United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties
- United Way of Kern County
- United Way of Monterey County
- United Way of San Luis Obispo County
- United Way of Ventura County
- Volunteer Center of Kern County
- West Kern Petroleum Summit
- Ventura Police Activities League (PAL)
- Bakersfield Black Gold Production
- Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra
- Bakersfield Women’s Business Conference
- Buena Vista Museum of Natural History
- California Living Museum (CALM)
- Coalinga-Huron Library District
- Community Action Partnership of Kern
- Museum of Ventura County
- Pacific Coast Business Times
- Paso Robles Library Foundation
- R.C. Baker Museum, Coalinga
- Taft Oildorado
- Valley Public Radio (NPR for Central California)
- Ventura Friends of the Library
Environmental
- Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway (Belridge)
- Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway (Taft)
- Kern Green (Don’t Trash Me)
- San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District
- The Wildlands Conservancy
- Ojai Raptor Center
Economic Development
- BizFed Central Valle
- Chamber of Commerce Alliance of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties
- City of Coalinga
- Coalinga Chamber of Commerce
- Community Foundation for Monterey County
- Economic Development Collaborative, Ventura County
- EconAlliance
- Fresno Chamber of Commerce
- Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce
- Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation
- Fresno Economic Development Corporation
- Fresno County Farm Bureau
- Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce
- Kern County Board of Trade
- Kern County Farm Bureau
- Kern County Taxpayers Association (KernTax)
- Kern Economic Development Corporation
- Kern Economic Development Foundation
- Kern Energy Festival
- Kern County Black Chamber of Commerce
- Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- West Ventura County Business Alliance (Oxnard and Camarillo chambers of commerce)
- Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce
- Taft District Chamber of Commerce
- Ventura Chamber of Commerce
- Ventura County Coalition of Labor Agriculture and Business (CoLAB Ventura County)
- Ventura County Economic Development Association
- Ventura County Office of Education
- Ventura County Taxpayers Association
- Ventura Police Activities League
- Westside Community Council, Ventura
- Westside Community Development Corporation, Ventura