ComEd Volunteers Spark the Holiday Spirit with ‘12 Days of Power’
December 13 2016 - 12:20PM
Business Wire
Employees make holidays merry and bright for
nonprofits throughout Chicagoland
With the holiday season upon us, ComEd is in full swing with its
“12 Days of Power” campaign, which highlights how employees will
spend the rest of this year donating their time, energy, and
financial support to various nonprofits in communities throughout
Illinois.
“Our customers and our communities are one and the same and we
care about their well-being,” said Anne Pramaggiore, ComEd
president and CEO. “Just as we provide safe and reliable energy for
our customers, we also take seriously the broader responsibilities
to nourish our local communities, particularly during this season
of sharing. Our employees are some of the best volunteers around,
and I’m proud of and inspired by all they are doing this holiday
season to help and empower others.”
At ComEd, volunteerism is a core company value. Employees are on
track to volunteer more than 20,000 hours in 2016, a number that
has consistently gone up over the past several years. In addition
to donating time, employees this year have given more than $1.2
million to local charities and recently donated $57,000 of those
funds on Giving Tuesday, which was Nov. 29. Here are some of ComEd
employees’ 12 Days of Power projects:
- Dec. 1 – Dec. 15 – Teaming up
with local Marine Corps chapters to assist Toys for Tots in
collecting toys for families less fortunate this holiday.
- Dec. 10 – Mentoring and
educating students about engineering and other STEM careers at
Project SYNCERE, which provides STEM programming to youth in
under-served communities.
- Dec. 13 – Unloading deliveries
and stocking the shelves and coolers at Lakeview Pantry, one of
Chicago's largest and longest-operating food pantries.
- Dec. 14 – Assisting the Hearts
& Flour Holiday Bakery with scooping, mixing, baking, packaging
and displaying bakery products at Misericordia, a community of care
that maximizes potential for persons with mild to profound
developmental disabilities, many of whom are also physically
challenged.
- Dec. 15 – Passing out Christmas
dinner packages, clothing, and Christmas toys to needy families in
the Chicago Heights, Park Forest, Matteson and surrounding areas
through Respond Now. Respond Now enhances quality of life in south
suburban communities by working to alleviate hunger and prevent
homelessness for people at risk.
- Dec. 16 – Passing out cheer and
pizza during a party for Veteran patients at Hines VA, in
partnership with the American Red Cross.
- Dec. 17 – Honoring thousands of
our nation’s heroes buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery by
placing wreaths on veterans' graves with the help of Operation Care
Package, a public charity dedicated to the mission that no Hero
serving our Nation should be forgotten.
- Dec. 17 – Assembling lunch for
the homeless and writing inspiring notes to place inside the bags
through #HashtagLunchBag, a humanity service movement dedicated to
empowering and inspiring humanity to reap the benefits of giving
through the use of social media. The organization creates and uses
bagged lunches, complete with love messages, as a vessel to spread
love and share experiences to inspire others.
- Dec. 19 – Conducting mock
interviews with students at Von Steuben High School who are
applying for internships at local STEM corporations.
- Dec. 21 – Members of ComEd’s
Energy Force, the country's first energy-efficiency education
program designed for and taught by people with disabilities, will
be at Chicago Botanic Garden teaching community members about
holiday energy efficiency.
- Dec. 22 – Distributing gifts to
students at Rodolfo Lozano Bilingual & International Center, a
Chicago school committed to establishing a collaborative and caring
learning environment amongst children, teachers, local community,
and parents.
- Dec. 23 – Helping to make
beds with clean sheets and preparing and serving lunch to residents
of Pacific Garden Mission, a place of refuge and transformation for
the homeless and hurting in Chicago.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s leading competitive
energy provider, with approximately 10 million customers. ComEd
provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across
northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population. For
more information visit ComEd.com, and connect with the company on
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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