Contributing to Communities
Making a positive impact and giving back to the communities that sustain our roads is important to us at Atlas Arteria.
Each of our businesses have well established community investment programs with the aim of helping their local communities to thrive.
Atlas Arteria, through our businesses, plays a critical role in connecting communities to one another, creating jobs, and facilitating the safe and reliable movement of goods. Through paying taxes, employing local people and contractors and through purchasing local goods and services we and our businesses our proud to contribute to local economies
We are also proud of the voluntary contributions we and our businesses make to our local communities.
Atlas Arteria Gives Back
n November 2023 we launched Atlas Arteria Gives Back; a program designed to drive greater connection to local charities and to provide support via volunteering or donations. The program was launched in response to a real desire among
Through a third-party provider, our people can access more than 1.5 million charities worldwide via a portal where they can search for local volunteering opportunities from thousands of charities; so they’re sure to find something close to their heart to utilise their volunteer days.
The Atlas Arteria Gives Back portal also facilitates donations to charities, with employee donations made through the portal matched by Atlas Arteria (up to a capped amount per employee)
In 2024, all employees were invited to participate in a consultation and engagement process to help identify which SDGs Atlas Arteria, as a business, should prioritise to optimise impact. At the same time, we asked employees to consider which SDGs they would personally prioritise, with the aim of ensuring the Atlas Arteria Gives Back portal contains volunteering and donation opportunities that align with employee priorities. While there were a range of SDGs identified as important to our people, the two that stood out as highest priority were
Helping prepare students for the new school year
Chicago Skyway values its partnerships with local community groups and is dedicated to empowering young people to thrive and succeed at school through its annual back-to school donation events.
In the past year alone, Chicago Skyway donated 1,400 backpacks to provide children with the tools and resources to set them up for learning and to prepare them well for the new school year. The business also partnered with other local organisations to donate essential school supplies across the 5th, 8th, 10th, and 20th wards of Chicago.
Over the past few years, Chicago Skyway has donated more than 2,000 backpacks, Apple computers, smartboards, whiteboards and school furniture to local schools. These essential school supplies provide the tools to set children up for learning success and help to build excitement for the upcoming school year.
Eagle Cam has community engagement soaring
Now in its third year, Dulles Greenway’s Eagle Cam continues to offer the community significant educational benefits and insights into the Bald Eagle nesting process.
Dedicated web, Instagram and YouTube pages provide the community multiple ways to engage with their feathered friends and learn important conservation and habitat protection information. A Discord chat function is also available via the webpage, which community members use to ask questions of wildlife experts about the two adult eagles who currently call the nest home.
More than 1,000 volunteer hours were logged on the Eagle Cam in 2024. The entire Dulles Greenway team is delighted and proud to see community interest and engagement in the project soaring.
Run the Greenway: a runaway success
Dulles Greenway supported Run the Greenway for the fourth consecutive year in 2024, raising an impressive US$243,000 for local non-profits. Around 2,000 people took part and, for the first time ever, the event included a dedicated wheelchair race category: the Roll 5K. The top three finishers in the wheelchair category received medals and gift cards.
The race, held on 4 May 2024, had a Star Wars ‘May the fourth be with you’ theme. The race included a five and 10-kilometre run, an 800-metre Kids’ Run and a virtual race along the Greenway. It offered participants the chance to raise funds for charities while experiencing the motorway from a unique perspective. After the race, participants enjoyed music from the band Special Occasions, along with food trucks, face painting and other festivities.
With a total of around US$887,000 raised by the event over the past four years, Run the Greenway continues to be a runaway success!
At Warnow Tunnel, in support of its sponsorship of the otters at Rostock Zoo, the business participated in World Otter Day on 31 May 2023. Celebrations included animal feeding activities and were attended by the Warnow Tunnel mascot, Oskar the otter. Educational activities about wildlife protection were a key focus of the day. The Hella Rostock marathon also took place with Warnow Tunnel once again taking centre stage as part of the running course and the toll plaza used as the starting line. This great event allows runners to view the tunnel from a very different perspective.
Warnow Tunnel also celebrated its 20th anniversary during 2023 with a community party in September and welcomed its 80 millionth vehicle on 28 July 2023.
