2019 Year in Review: Charitable Giving

We give to many worthwhile causes, but typically focus our support on three areas: youth education and scholarships for college students, climate-change mitigation through carbon offsets and sponsorship of the Carbon Leadership Forum, and carefully selected charities that apply architecture or engineering to help disadvantaged people or assist communities where our people live and work. In 2019, we supported Bridges to Prosperity, Habitat for Humanity, the Global Orphan Project, the American Red Cross, the Chinese Christian Herald Crusades; and many other local organizations.

We continued to support our legacy areas of philanthropy in 2019, with nearly one-third of our total giving supporting the education of the next generation of AEC professionals. We donate every year – about 20 percent of our philanthropic dollars – to the Thornton Tomasetti Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3) organization that sponsors grants, fellowships and scholarships and distributes funds to a variety of AEC-related nonprofits. The balance is made up by our funding for the ACE Mentor Program and the Salvadori Center.