{"id":42178,"date":"2025-03-13T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/?p=42178"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:12:38","slug":"portage-participates-in-valero-energy-foundation-of-canada-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/portage-participates-in-valero-energy-foundation-of-canada-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Portage participates in Valero Energy Foundation of Canada panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"lead\">As part of International Women&#8217;s Rights Day, we had the privilege of participating in a panel hosted by our generous partner, the Valero Energy Foundation of Canada. Moderated by Louis-Philippe Gari\u00e9py, Senior Director of Public and Government Affairs &#8211; Canada, the discussion aimed to inform employees about the tangible impact of their company&#8217;s social investment and community engagement program.<\/p>\r\n<p>Steffie B\u00e9rub\u00e9, Program Manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/quebec\/mother-child-program\/\">the Mother and Child Program<\/a> at Portage, joined two other representatives from organizations supporting vulnerable women facing difficult circumstances. She shared insights into the services offered and highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energievalero.ca\/en-ca\/Community\/ValeroEnergyProgram\/Foundation\">Valero Energy Foundation<\/a>&#8216;s essential support.<\/p>\r\n<p>The conversation with employees was both meaningful and enriching. We are sincerely grateful to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energievalero.ca\/en-ca\">\u00c9nergie Valero inc.<\/a> for this invaluable opportunity to raise awareness about our organization. It also allowed us to emphasize the importance of sustained, multi-year support. Long-term funding for recreational activities plays a vital role in fostering and maintaining the essential parent-child bond, which is crucial to the well-being of mothers and their children.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/VALERO_panel2-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"346\" \/>\r\n<p>Share the article:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/?p=42178&amp;fl_builder&amp;title=Portage+participates+in+Valero+Energy+Foundation+of+Canada+panel\"> Share on Facebook <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/?p=42178&amp;fl_builder&amp;title=Portage+participates+in+Valero+Energy+Foundation+of+Canada+panel\"> Share on Linkedin <\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of International Women&#8217;s Rights Day, we had the privilege of participating in a panel hosted by our generous partner, the Valero Energy Foundation of Canada. Moderated by Louis-Philippe Gari\u00e9py, Senior Director of Public and Government Affairs &#8211; Canada, the discussion aimed to inform employees about the tangible impact of their company&#8217;s social investment&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/portage-participates-in-valero-energy-foundation-of-canada-panel\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Portage participates in Valero Energy Foundation of Canada panel\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":42169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-quebec-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42304,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions\/42304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}