Exelon Employees Leading More Than 160 Service Projects in Their Communities around National Volunteer Week
April 07 2016 - 11:30AM
Business Wire
More than 3,000 volunteers will contribute
13,000 hours in tenth year of participation
Employee volunteers from across the Exelon family of companies
are celebrating National Volunteer Week (April 11-15) by organizing
more than 160 service projects in the communities where they live
and work. The projects will range from preparing and packaging food
for the hungry to cleaning up local parks to mentoring at-risk
youth.
National Volunteer Week is an annual event that encourages
people nationwide to work together to improve their communities
through service. This is the tenth year Exelon employees are
participating in National Volunteer Week by leading service
projects this week and throughout April, and recruiting coworkers,
friends and family to join them. More than 3,000 Exelon volunteers
are expected to contribute 13,000 total hours of service.
“Through their tireless efforts and dedication to important
organizations and causes they care most about, our employees make
Exelon a strong community partner,” said Chris Crane, Exelon’s
president and CEO. “During National Volunteer Week and all year
long, we are proud to support their commitment to giving back to
the communities we serve.”
Many of the service projects focus on advancing education,
particularly in STEM; enhancing the environment; promoting
diversity and inclusion; and strengthening neighborhoods. Employees
from across the Exelon companies participate, including BGE and
Constellation in Maryland, ComEd in northern Illinois, PECO in
southeastern Pennsylvania, and Exelon Generation and Exelon
Business Services Company in various regions.
Following the merger of Exelon with Pepco Holdings on March 23,
2016, employees of the Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and
Pepco utilities in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and
New Jersey can look forward to fully participating in Exelon’s
National Volunteer Week efforts starting next year.
Through its Energy for the Community corporate citizenship
program, Exelon maintains a longstanding tradition of charitable
giving and service to civic and nonprofit organizations. Last year,
Exelon employees recorded nearly 129,000 hours of volunteer service
to organizations in the community – a company record.
Examples of the more than 160 National Volunteer Week projects
include:
Illinois
- Packaging food for the malnourished
with Feed My Starving Children (Aurora, April 11)
- Setting up homeless shelters at Shiloh
Baptist Church (Waukegan, April 13)
- Planting trees and maintaining wildlife
at the Morton Arboretum (Lisle, April 13)
- Building a home with Habitat for
Humanity Chicago (Chicago, April 15)
Maryland
- Mentoring underprivileged youth with
Urban Alliance (Baltimore, April 8)
- Building a home with Susquehanna
Habitat for Humanity (Charlestown, April 13)
- Preparing meals for those suffering
with life-threatening illness (Baltimore, April 20)
- Creating toys and blankets for animals
at the Maryland SPCA (Baltimore, April 27)
Pennsylvania
- Cleaning up the Elmwood Park Zoo for
spring (Norristown, April 13)
- Preparing and packaging meals for those
suffering from illnesses at MANNA (Philadelphia, April 13)
- Sorting donated toys, clothing and
books for homeless children at Cradles to Crayons (Philadelphia,
April 13)
- Tutoring young children in literacy
skills with Philadelphia READS (Philadelphia, April 12)
Texas
- Cleaning up the Willow Waterhole
Conservation Reserve (Houston, April 13)
- Participating in a two-day cycling
fundraiser with the National MS Society (Katy, April 16)
Follow Exelon's National Volunteer Week activity on social media
using the hashtag #ExelonVolunteers.
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), now including the Pepco Holdings
utilities, is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider,
with 2015 revenues of approximately $34.5 billion. Headquartered in
Chicago, Exelon does business in 48 states, the District of
Columbia and Canada. Exelon is one of the largest competitive U.S.
power generators, with more than 32,700 megawatts of owned capacity
comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power
generation fleets. The company’s Constellation business unit
provides energy products and services to approximately 2 million
residential, public sector and business customers, including more
than two-thirds of the Fortune 100. Exelon’s six utilities deliver
electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers
in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE,
ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries. Follow Exelon
on Twitter @Exelon.
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