Exelon Employees Observe National Volunteer Week by Leading More Than 150 Community Service Projects
April 07 2014 - 4:07PM
Business Wire
Volunteers will provide approximately 4,000
hours of service
Employees from across the Exelon family of companies will
observe National Volunteer Week (April 6-12) by participating in
more than 150 employee-led service projects in the communities
Exelon serves, from cleaning up parks and other public spaces to
serving meals to people struggling with poverty to mentoring
at-risk students.
National Volunteer Week is an annual, nationwide celebration of
people working to improve their communities through volunteer
service. For the eighth consecutive year, Exelon employees are
organizing community service projects in which more than 1,000
employees, family members and friends are expected to participate
this week and throughout the month of April.
“Our employees look forward to National Volunteer Week as an
opportunity to better the quality of life in the communities they
serve,” said Exelon President and CEO Chris Crane, “and their
passion for serving does not end there. All year long, our
dedicated employees donate their time and energy to the causes and
organizations that matter to them to help create a brighter, more
sustainable future where our communities thrive.”
Exelon empowers employee volunteers to design their own National
Volunteer Week service projects and recruit others to participate.
Projects focus on education, environmental stewardship, diversity
and inclusion, and community enrichment, and involve employee
volunteers from all of Exelon’s businesses, including: ComEd in
northern Illinois, PECO in southeastern Pennsylvania, Constellation
and BGE in Maryland, and Exelon Generation and Exelon Business
Services Company in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Texas.
Exelon has a longstanding tradition of charitable giving and
service to civic and nonprofit organizations through its “Energy
for the Community” corporate citizenship program. Last year, more
than 3,800 Exelon employee volunteers gave almost 86,500 hours of
their time to community nonprofit organizations. This is equivalent
to more than 2,162 workweeks or nearly 41 years of fulltime
service.
Examples of Exelon’s National Volunteer Week projects
include:
Illinois
- Environmental service project with
ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore at Garfield Park Conservatory (Chicago,
April 7)
- Naperville Area Humane Society cleanup
(Naperville, Ill., April 8)
- Habitat for Humanity home construction
(Chicago, April 11)
- Food pantry assistance and handout (Oak
Park, Ill., April 12)
- Humboldt Park cleanup and
beautification with Exelon Executive Vice President and Chief
Administrative Officer Ruth Ann Gillis (Chicago, April 26)
Pennsylvania
- Fairmount Park tree planting with the
Philadelphia Zoo (Philadelphia, April 8)
- Prepare food and package meals for the
hungry at MANNA (Philadelphia, April 9)
- One-on-one mentoring with children
through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern PA (Philadelphia,
April 10)
- Emergency readiness training and
painting at Red Cross House (Philadelphia, April 11)
- Monarch Butterfly habitat planting
(Kennett Square, Pa., April 24)
Maryland
- School gardening project with BGE CEO
Calvin Butler at Friendship Academy at Cherry Hill (Baltimore,
April 8)
- Tree planting at Moravia Park
Elementary with Exelon Senior Vice President and Chief Supply
Officer Bridget Reidy (Baltimore, April 8)
- Youth Opportunity Career Day at BGE’s
Whitemarsh training facility (Baltimore, April 9)
- Packing food for the hungry at the
Maryland Food Bank (Baltimore, April 11)
- Susquehanna River riverbank cleanup
(Conowingo, Md., April 26)
Texas
- Habitat for Humanity build day
(Houston, April 8)
- Crafts projects with visually impaired
and blind people at Lighthouse of Houston (Houston, April 8)
- Christmas in July gift wrapping with
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance (Houston, April
10)
Exelon Corporation is the nation’s leading competitive energy
provider, with 2013 revenues of approximately $24.9 billion.
Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon has operations and business
activities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.
Exelon is one of the largest competitive U.S. power generators,
with approximately 35,000 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 100,000 business and public
sector customers and approximately 1 million residential customers.
Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to more than
6.6 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois
(ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO).
Exelon Corporate CommunicationsPaul Elsberg,
312-394-7417paul.elsberg@exeloncorp.com
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