Social Impact
COMMUNITY
OEG is committed to leveraging the power of its brands and its operation reach to benefit communities across the Edmonton and Northern Alberta area. The Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation (EOCF) is dedicated to building strong, vibrant and safe communities, with a focus on supporting local communities and under-represented groups. Since 2001, the Foundation has contributed over $114 million to more than 1,050 charities helping thousands of kids, families and communities in need across Oil Country.
The key EOCF investment pillars are Every Kid Deserves a Shot and Standing Up for Oil Country. The Every Kid Deserves a Shot initiative, presented by Rogers, removes barriers to sport participation for young people across Oil Country and the Standing Up for Oil Country pillar supports organizations addressing urgent community needs from healthcare to food security throughout the region.
From 2020 to 2025, the Foundation has reinvested and committed over $90 million to charities and minor hockey groups.
Learn more at OilersFoundation.ca.
The EOCF also administered an innovative community engagement program created in 2015 by Chloe and Harrison Katz, children of owner Daryl Katz. Called Hockey Helps Kids, Chloe and Harrison forged an innovative partnership between the Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton public schools to teach high school age children the value of giving back and building community. From inception through the 2019 NHL season, Hockey Helps Kids engaged 8,500 students and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into charities in the community.
Inclusion and Respect
Through OEG Sports & Entertainment, we work in conjunction with the NHL’s Executive Inclusion Council to focus on educating and promoting a workplace environment where individuals, groups and staff feel welcomed, respected, supported and valued. We work to promote Leadership, Education, Employment, Partnerships and Civic Engagement among NHL Teams and Communities.
OEGSE is proud to be part of the NHL’s partnership with Respect Group, an anti-harassment organization dedicated to providing programming and training to sports organizations, schools, and workplaces in an effort to eliminate and prevent bullying, abuse, harassment and discrimination with a goal to inspire a global culture of respect.
OEGSE is also committed to advancing its relationships with Indigenous partners across all of its brands. To that end, OEGSE, through the Edmonton Oilers, works to improve access and participation in sport for under-represented groups and has built a collaborative and inclusive relationship with local Indigenous communities including Treaty 6 and Treaty 8 First Nations. Through the work of the Oilers and its community foundation, thousands of Indigenous youths have participated in on and off ice programs, accessed new equipment and watched the Oilers formally celebrate the special ties between the organization and community.