Enhancing quality of life

Vital social services and opportunities to enjoy arts, culture and nature help make our communities vibrant. Devon’s investments in community enrichment align with our value to make a positive and sustainable impact. Devon is a leading contributor to nonprofit organizations in our operating communities.

Arts, culture and nature

We’re committed to supporting the visual and performing arts that help make our hometown of Oklahoma City a lively and appealing place to live, work and play. Devon funds a variety of local arts and culture organizations, including the Oklahoma City Ballet, Arts Council of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and Lyric Theater. We also hold an annual fundraising campaign for Allied Arts to support more than 40 local arts organizations.

In New Mexico, we participate in the annual National Public Lands Day, a project to repair and restore public recreation areas. Our employees partnered with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the nonprofit CEHMM in 2023 on projects to protect ecological integrity and clean up the Hackberry Try-System Dune area in southeast New Mexico. We also supported Ducks Unlimited’s playa restoration project at the Huey Waterfowl Management Area near Artesia. Playas can be an important part of a sustainable approach to securing water for communities, as well as a primary habitat for many wildlife species. Devon employees in the Permian Basin support on-the-ground conservation projects focused on playa restoration, including engineering and design, project administration and other activities involved in delivering conservation work.

In 2023, we marked our 16th year contributing funding and volunteers for the Wyoming Conservation Corps (WCC) and its programs to improve public lands in the state. Devon is also a long-time supporter of The Oklahoma Nature Conservancy and its focus on sharing the love of nature and conservation throughout the state. We contribute to its ground stewardship activities, including controlled burning for range management, invasive species control and scientific research. Devon’s donations helped stand up operations at the newest Blue River preserve, Oka’ Yanahli, which encompasses 3,600 acres of native prairie and two miles of river.

Matching employee giving

Devon launched our Employee Gift Match Program in 2022 to amplify employees and directors’ support of nonprofit organizations that reflect their personal interests, passions and pursuits. The company matches individual contributions through the program up to $10,000 per employee. In 2023, donations under the gift match program totaled $1.5 million. In addition, employees in Gillette, Wyoming, Weatherford and Oklahoma City raised $1.2 million for nonprofits during our annual Give for Good campaign.

DEI Community Grants

We want to make a real difference in people’s lives, and we listen to stakeholders to find the most effective programs to meet community needs. We created the Devon DEI Community Grants (formerly Inclusion and Equity Grants) to put our diversity, equity and inclusion beliefs into action with community organizations we’d never worked with before. We identify partner organizations with the help of our employee-led DEI Team. Since initiating the grants program in 2021, Devon has expanded giving from Oklahoma City to all of our operating areas.

Devon awarded DEI Community Grants to the following organizations in 2023:

Oklahoma City

Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council:$10,000
Devon’s grant provides the Wound Care Clinic for American Indians with supplies, equipment and training for advanced wound therapy to address the needs of the American Indian population and avoid amputation.

Freedom City: $7,500
Freedom City provides free academic improvement, social skills development and parent and guardian support programs in northeast Oklahoma City. Devon’s donation benefited the Freedom Girls program, which elevates young girls’ confidence through self-expression and teamwork, and helps Freedom City license and sell its own educational model to surrounding schools, aftercare programs and daycares.

India Association of Oklahoma: $2,500
Devon’s donation supported the 2023 Indian Food & Arts Festival to provide an immersive experience of India’s culture and heritage through performances, dance, music and food. The festival is free and open to all, with interactive workshops and over 30 vendor stalls.

Latino Community Development Agency: $10,000
Devon’s donation helped relaunch the Latino Youth Leadership Club Program, which promotes the benefits of staying in school, achieving good grades and attending a college or university. Activities take place primarily at local public middle or high schools.

Northeast Oklahoma City Renaissance: $2,500
Devon’s contribution benefited Northeast Oklahoma City Renaissance (NEOKCR)’s annual oNE OKC Homecoming Weekend festival. The street festival features entertainment and performing arts, a community development exhibit, food trucks, and kids and wellness activities to engage the local community and attract people to visit northeast Oklahoma City.

OKC Pride Alliance: $2,000
Devon’s contribution benefited the annual OKC PrideFest supporting OKC Pride Alliance’s mission of fostering inclusive all-ages affirming programming for Oklahoma’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Pearls of SSO: $5,500
Devon’s donation assisted Pearls of SSO Foundation’s programming such as its childhood hunger initiative, youth leadership institute and financial wellness and planned giving forum.

Santa Fe Family Life Center: $7,500
Devon’s contribution helped launch the Wheelie Club in Oklahoma City, a free, unique games-based program for kids with ambulatory disabilities to learn athletic skill building, create life-long healthy habits and make new friendships.

Sisu: $10,000
Sisu is a low-barrier shelter for difficult-to-serve youth. In 2022, nearly 70% of the youth served were Black, Latino and Indigenous. Devon’s donation provided training for Sisu staff members to solidify the organization’s cultural competency for diversity.

Special Care: $7,500
Devon provided funding for scholarships for first-rate early childhood education, specialized care and on-site therapeutic services to children of all abilities. Special Care awards scholarships mainly to children who fall through Title 20 funding cracks and children of singleparent homes and families who experience job loss.

Urban Bridge: $10,000
Devon’s contribution helped Urban Bridge recruit more professionals/caring adults to provide programming for African American middle and high school students in northeast Oklahoma City. Urban Bridge aids students in shaping life skills, career opportunities and making new connections. The grant will help provide volunteer screenings, background checks, mentor training, small volunteer stipends and program-related items like STEM equipment, art supplies and healthy snacks.

Anadarko Basin

Canadian County CASA: $1,250
Devon’s contribution assisted essential recruitment, training, and supervision of volunteers who provide direct advocacy for the best interest of abused and neglected children within the county’s court system. Advocates reduce the overall time that victimized children spend in uncertainty and increase their odds of finding permanency.

El Reno Blessing Baskets: $1,250
Devon supported the 2023 Families with Children Summer Food Program serving financially challenged families in western Canadian County. This program provides groceries to families with children twice a month during the summer months, as well as spring, fall and Christmas break.

Norman Smith Memorial Library: $2,500
Devon’s contribution helped provide after school programming and no-cost meals for students at a neighboring school.

STEP UP Transitional Living: $5,000
Devon’s contribution assisted the program focused on providing up to 18 months of stable housing and supportive services for young adults aging out of the foster system who would otherwise become homeless. STEP UP provides a reliable place to live, coupled with counseling and case management that connects youth to needed services such as employment and life-skills.

Eagle Ford

Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum: $4,500
Devon’s contribution supported Black Cowboys: An American Story, a traveling exhibition exploring the lives and work of the numerous Black men, women and children who labored on ranches and participated on cattle drives from before the Civil War through the turn of the century.

Friends of DeWitt County: $4,500
Devon’s donation supported families in kinship and foster care and children currently or previously involved with Child and Family Protective Services. Funds were used for clothing, furniture, hygiene items, school and medical supplies, transportation and medical care costs.

Victoria Christian Assistance Ministry (VCAM): $1,000
Devon’s contribution helped stock supplies that VCAM provides its clientele. These items include toiletries, household cleaners and paper products, and travel sized items for the homeless population they serve.

Delaware Basin

Carlsbad Literacy Program: $3,500
Trained program volunteers committed to advancing literacy in Eddy County provide free, quality instruction in reading, English as a Second Language, High School Equivalency preparation, citizenship instruction and computer literacy for those 16 and over. Devon’s grant helped fund testing required to assist tutors in developing a plan for student success.

Carlsbad September Fiestas: $1,500
The Devon grant facilitated the 16th of September Fiesta activities and helped keep the event free to the community. The fiesta’s focus is to acknowledge the history, heritage and contributions of American citizens from Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean and South/Central America.

Haven of Hope: $3,000
Haven of Hope helps single mothers find economic stability while raising their children in a communal living cottage. While in the program, mothers are mentored toward making sound financial, educational and career choices. The Devon grant helped develop an ageappropriate means to serve the mental health needs of children in the home.

My Power: $3,000
The Devon grant helped empower girls in grades 5-9 to successfully navigate the teen years by enabling them to make wise choices, set goals, succeed academically and avoid risky behaviors.

Sheri’s House of Hope: $3,000
This nonprofit provides transitional housing and support services for women and children fleeing or displaced by domestic violence, human trafficking or sexual assault. The Devon grant allowed the group to create a therapy room to assist with intakes, host a local therapist and provide a calm and comforting space for healing.

Wings for L.I.F.E.: $2,500
Wings for L.I.F.E. builds and strengthens healthy family relationships and individual life-skills through best practice programs that produce positive behaviors. The Devon grant helped the organization continue supporting the Building Assets Elementary Program that promotes academic success, reduces engagement in risky behaviors, and provides valuable skills such as empathy and avoiding peer pressure.

Your Safe Space: $8,500
Devon’s contribution helped Your Safe Space offer math and reading tutoring, internet access, training programs for young and single mothers, mentorship for young men, food assistance and counseling. The organization provides a physical safe space and resource center for those in need in southeast Lea County.

Rockies: North Dakota

Boys and Girls Club of the Three Affiliated Tribes: $10,000
Devon’s contribution supported the Native Youth Council program at the Boys and Girls Club in New Town. The council of local native teens participated in enrichment activities and served as camp counselors for the Boys and Girls Club summer camp program.

Rockies: Wyoming

Climb Wyoming: $5,000
Climb Wyoming’s mission is to help low-income single mothers discover self-sufficiency through career training and placement. Through its Gillette office, Climb offers industry training, life and financial skills development, and mental health support to overcome poverty, provide economic stability for their children and fill critical jobs in the local workforce.

Edible Prairie Project: $5,000
Devon’s funds were used to purchase food and personal items needed for the Campbell County nonprofit to distribute weekend food bags. Edible Prairie Project was created to support small local and midscale agricultural and food processing operations to improve the affordability and accessibility of high quality and nutritionally appropriate food for all members of our community.