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Pride in Service: CSX’s Commitment to Wounded Warriors

CSX’s commitment to wounded warriors is part of its community investment initiative, Pride in Service, which serves our country’s heroes by connecting them and their families with their neighbors, resources, support and gratitude.

As a leading rail transportation company, CSX's vision is to be the best-run railroad in North America. CSX operates on 20,000 miles of track across 26 states in the United States, as well as two Canadian provinces.

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CSX's Innovation Partnership Goals

Through Pride in Service, CSX partners with WWP to address evolving needs within the veteran community.

CSX's partnership focuses on three major objectives:

 

To positively impact warriors and their families across the states and communities where CSX employees live, work, and serve.

 

To help advance understanding and awareness around issues facing warriors today, internally, and externally.

 

To continue to engage employees in the shared mission of CSX and WWP through fundraising and volunteerism.

CSX Partnership Commitment

CSX fuels the WWP mission at the Innovation level ($500-$999K). Since 2018, the company and its employees have contributed over $3.4 million to help wounded warriors and their families.

With nearly 20% of its workforce having served, CSX values veteran employment. CSX partners with the WWP Warriors to Work® program on workforce development initiatives including customized drone training, veteran job fairs, and "lunch & learns."

CSX is committed to supporting WWP’s Emergency Financial Assistance Program to mitigate food insecurity in the warrior population by providing critical funding and hosting employee-led food drives.

Because of its commitment to mental health, CSX has committed to delivering WWP’s suicide prevention awareness training to its special agents and other employees.

Each year CSX employees support warriors through food drives, skills-based volunteering, and participation in the annual WWP Carry Forward 5K in Jacksonville. This event engages employees to raise critical funds in support of wounded warriors.

As a sponsor of the WWP Community Partner Convening event, CSX will strengthen its ties to the veteran nonprofit community, while helping to spark critical conversations and share best practices.

Partner Awards

CSX has been recognized for partnership excellence and support of wounded warriors and their families.

WWP executives honored CSX representatives with glass award.

2023 Corporate Partner Impact Award

CSX executives Angela Costa and John Kitchens received the Excellence in Program Activation award during the 2024 Corporate Partner Summit in recognition of the company’s commitment to and promotion of the WWP warrior drone training program.

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The Corporate Partner of the Year trophy includes a sculpture of one soldier carrying another placed on a wood base with a plaque on the front of it.

2022 Corporate Partner of the Year

CSX received this honor at the 2023 WWP Corporate Partner Summit. The award recognized the company's commitment to removing barriers to veteran employment, prioritizing suicide prevention training, and driving employee engagement.

A wounded warrior wearing a yellow safety vest and sunglasses is operating the controls of a drone while a CSX police officer stands by him providing instruction.

2024 PR News Impact Communications Awards

CSX received a 2024 PR News Impact Communications Award in the Corporate-Community Partnership category for its efforts in support of the WWP Drone Certification Training program. The award is a testament to the valuable work WWP and CSX do together to help place veterans at the center of innovative jobs of the future.

A female WWP employee holding a silver trophy stands smiling next to a female CSX executive holding a gold trophy in front of a sign that says Halo Awards.

2024 Halo Awards

CSX and WWP were honored at the 2024 Engage for Good Conference with both a Gold Halo in the Best Employee Engagement Initiative category and a Silver Halo in the Best Direct Service Initiative category for their partnership in the WWP Drone Certification Training program. The Halo Awards are the highest recognition for outstanding social impact initiatives.

See Other Ways CSX Impacts Warriors and Their Families

CSX works in collaboration with Wounded Warrior Project to amplify and activate its partnership.

Two women from CSX work together to pack food items to be given to warrior families.

CSX Employees Fight Veteran Food Insecurity

CSX employees participated in an Adopt-a-Family Food Basket Drive event hosted for veterans and their families at WWP headquarters in July 2024. The evening included dinner, movies, and doing arts and crafts.

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Bryan Tucker from CSX participates in a television interview wearing a golf shirt with a WWP flag in the background.

CSX Participates in National Non-Profit Day Virtual Media Tour

Bryan Tucker (VP Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability, CSX) joined WWP VP of Business Development Brea Kratzert Todd to share CSX’s reasons for partnering with WWP to encourage other companies to support injured veterans.

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CSX Pride In Service drone program.

Overcoming Veteran Employment Barriers

As part of its dedication to removing barriers to veteran employment, CSX sponsored WWP’s 2023 Warriors to Work drone certification program, giving warriors the opportunity to obtain a commercial drone pilot license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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Hire A Veteran Day

CSX was featured along with other veteran-friendly companies on a Fox & Friends segment on National Hire a Veterans Day on July 25, 2023.

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CSX employees attend the Carry Forward 5K in Jacksonville, Florida.

CSX Employee Engagement

Each year, CSX employees gather to support warriors and their families through events like holiday food drives, skills-based volunteering, or participating in the WWP Carry Forward 5K. 

WWP is grateful for the ongoing support of CSX and its employees.

Veterans Crisis Line - DIAL 988 then PRESS 1.

Suicide Prevention

WWP & CSX are collaborating to bring suicide prevention training to a broader audience in effort to destigmatize mental health struggles and encourage asking for help.

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WWP warrior Chris Gordon smiles, holding the reins of a saddled brown and white horse on a sunlit ranch with trees and a fence.

Warrior Survey

CSX funded the 2021 Annual Warrior Survey that ensures wounded warriors’ voice are heard. 

Learn about the results in the latest survey.

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