BGE Employees Participate in Day of Service to Celebrate Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 19 2015 - 4:57PM
Business Wire
Employees join together for “A Day ON” to
complete community service projects with The Sixth Branch, Art with
a Heart and The Loading Dock
In celebration, recognition and honor of the life and legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Baltimore Gas and Electric Company
(BGE) employees teamed up today for a day of service with three
community service organizations across Baltimore. BGE employee
volunteers and members of the employee resource group, Exelon’s
African-American Resource Alliance (EAARA), Baltimore Chapter,
participated in “A Day ON,” with local nonprofits Art with a Heart,
The Loading Dock and The Sixth Branch.
In celebration, recognition and honor of
the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., BGE employees
teamed up today for a day of service with three community service
organizations across Baltimore. BGE employees participated in "A
Day ON," with local nonprofits The Sixth Branch, Art with a Heart
and The Loading Dock. Pictured, BGE employee America Lesh
participates in a park cleanup in East Baltimore with The Sixth
Branch. (Photo: Business Wire)
BGE employees volunteered at a neighborhood clean-up with The
Sixth Branch in East Baltimore's Darley Park community, creating a
safe park for residents and their families. This is the fourth year
The Sixth Branch has led a neighborhood clean-up in East Baltimore
communities in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Sixth
Branch is a nonprofit organization utilizing the leadership and
organizational skills of military veterans to execute aggressive
community service initiatives at the local level. The Sixth Branch
builds community by bringing together service-minded veterans and
civilians to serve its communities on the home front.
BGE employees also volunteered with The Loading Dock, Maryland's
premier building materials reuse facility, which offers affordable,
interesting finds to people who need inexpensive housing
improvement and building materials and are interested in keeping
material out of the waste stream. BGE volunteers spent the day
sorting, organizing and cleaning donated building materials,
creating displays, relocating donated materials from one area of
the warehouse and showroom to another, pricing materials for sale
and taking inventory.
BGE employee volunteers and members of the employee resource
group, Exelon’s African-American Resource Alliance (EAARA),
Baltimore Chapter, spent the day with Art with a Heart, working to
finish community enhancement projects in the Art with a Heart
studio space. Art with a Heart brings 10,000 visual art classes to
abused, neglected and abandoned children; homeless people; battered
women and their children; mentally and physically disabled adults;
low-income senior citizens; elementary, middle, and high school
students; youth in after-school programs; and children receiving
long-term health care.
BGE and its employees embrace the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. not just in celebration of today’s Holiday, but
year-round. Through BGE’s employee volunteer network, ‘Energy for
the Community,’ BGE employees lend their time and passion to
corporate citizenship activities. In 2014, BGE employees donated
more than 24,000 volunteer hours to various nonprofit
organizations. In addition, BGE contributed nearly $3.7 million to
charitable organizations in support of more than 275 nonprofit
organizations across Central Maryland. For more information on
BGE’s commitment to corporate philanthropy and employee
volunteering efforts, visit bge.com.
Since its founding nearly 200 years ago, BGE has played an
integral role in working with Maryland communities to address
economic development, public safety, civic issues and other
initiatives that help enhance our neighborhoods. Through the use of
shareholder dollars, BGE supports programs that deliver measurable
and sustainable impact in areas of education, environment,
community development and arts and culture.
BGE’s corporate citizenship aligns with that of its parent
company, Exelon Corporation. As part of Exelon’s merger in March
2012, Exelon and its subsidiaries have committed to maintain
charitable giving of an average of $7 million per year in Maryland,
including BGE’s service area, for the next 10 years with a focus on
the areas of education, arts and culture, the environment and
community development.
EAARA is one of Exelon’s Employee Network Groups (ENGs), which
support diversity and inclusion, bring insight to Exelon’s
strategies and goals and serve as a resource to the corporation and
its employees. The groups are self-initiated, voluntary,
corporate-wide and inclusive. Current ENGs represent various
communities, including African-Americans; Latinos; Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgendered Individuals; Women; Military/Veterans;
and Asian Americans.
BGE, headquartered in Baltimore, is Maryland’s largest gas and
electric utility, delivering power to more than 1.2 million
electric customers and more than 655,000 natural gas customers in
central Maryland. The company’s approximately 3,400 employees are
committed to the safe and reliable delivery of gas and electricity,
as well as enhanced energy management, conservation, environmental
stewardship and community assistance. BGE is a subsidiary of Exelon
Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s leading competitive energy
provider, with 2013 revenues of approximately $24.9 billion. Like
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)Rachael Lighty,
rachael.lighty@bge.comBGE Media Hotline: 410-470-7433
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