Breakfast Sponsors

Each month the WBE Breakfast is sponsored by a local business. Thanks to all of our sponsors! Click to find out HOW TO BECOME A SPONSOR!

Our breakfast sponsor for December 2008 was:

 
Boeing is WBE’s Platinum Corporate Sponsor and they are being featured as the  breakfast sponsor for the month of October, as one of their benefits.

Boeing in Brief:

Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of  commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and  manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch  vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service  provider to NASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.  The company also provides numerous military and commercial airline support services.  Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries around the world and is one of the  largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales.

Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. The company  continues to expand its product line and services to meet emerging customer needs. The  broad range of capabilities includes creating new, more efficient members of its  commercial airplane family; integrating military platforms, defense systems and the  warfighter through network-centric operations; creating advanced technology solutions;  and arranging innovative customer-financing solutions.

Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 160,000 people across the United  States and in 70 countries, with major operations in the Puget Sound area of Washington  State, southern California and St. Louis. Total company revenues for 2007 were $66.4  billion.

Global Corporate Citizenship:Global corporate citizenship is one of Boeing's core values, and our communities are  among the key stakeholders in the company's business model. Corporate citizenship is  as integral to our company as our expertise in flight and technology. 

The role of Boeing's Global Corporate Citizenship (GCC) function is to align and  integrate the interests, motivations and resources of our stakeholders, sharing what we  know and who we are in order to convene, collaborate and lead in improving our world.  And, we work with our community partners and fellow grant-makers to measure that  improvement, define expected results and determine the ultimate impact of each of our  investments.

Simply put, our charge is to help the company and its employees realize our collective  potential as a positive influence on the world, working in partnership with our diverse  communities toward solutions to problems that affect us all.