Exelon Employees Show Holiday Spirit by Donating 9,300 Hours to Community Causes in Honor of #GivingTuesday
November 28 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Exelon employees across the country are spending the holiday
season investing their time and money in the communities in which
they live, work and serve. In support of #GivingTuesday, the
national day of giving, approximately 1,400 Exelon volunteers have
been participating in more than 180 service projects between
November 1 through December 4 in regions where company operations
are located.
Each year, #GivingTuesday falls on the Tuesday after
Thanksgiving to promote acts of kindness, volunteer work and
charitable donations following the shopping focused “Black Friday”
and “Cyber Monday.” Exelon employees have extended this spirit
throughout the holiday season. The company will also observe
#GivingTuesday by matching employees’ charitable donations of $100
or more on that day dollar for dollar, and contributing an
additional donation of $100 to employees’ charities of choice.
“We’re pleased to join the national #GivingTuesday campaign to
promote the importance of service,” said Chris Crane, president and
CEO, Exelon. “I’m proud that at this time of year, and throughout
the year, Exelon employees are committing their time, energy and
expertise to countless non-profit organizations in communities
where we work and live.”
Volunteers for #GivingTuesday service projects include employees
from all of Exelon’s businesses, including Atlantic City Electric
in New Jersey, Delmarva Power and Light, BGE and Constellation in
Maryland, ComEd in northern Illinois, PECO in southeastern
Pennsylvania, Pepco in Washington, D.C., and Exelon Generation and
Exelon Business Services Company in Illinois and across the
Mid-Atlantic region. Exelon employees across these regions also are
leading more than 20 food, clothing and toy drives or similar
events to support their communities this holiday season.
A few of the volunteer activities at Exelon locations around the
country include:
- Serving a Thanksgiving dinner to the
homeless with Catholic Charities in Washington DC.
- Building a new home with Habitat for
Humanity in Rock Island, Ill.
- Baking cookies for Ronald McDonald
House families with hospitalized children in Chicago
- Building playgrounds with Kaboom! in
Baltimore and Philadelphia
- Sorting and packing food at the Food
Bank of Southern NJ and the Greater Chicago Food Depository
- Teaching fission and other nuclear
concepts to high school students
- Participating in the University of
Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Boot Walk to End
Cancer
“The holiday season is all about giving, and I am thankful that
Exelon provides hundreds of opportunities for employees to be a
part of the Giving Tuesday tradition,” said Erica Velasco of
ComEd.
So far this year, Exelon employees have volunteered more than
126,000 hours to service projects and pledged more than $7,723,000
through company giving campaigns, exceeding the company’s goal and
breaking previous records. This comprehensive community engagement
program supports Exelon’s commitment to education, the environment,
diversity and inclusion, and community engagement.
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is a Fortune 100 energy company
with the largest number of utility customers in the U.S. Exelon
does business in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada and
had 2015 revenue of $34.5 billion. 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. Exelon is one
of the largest competitive U.S. power generators, with more than
32,700 megawatts of nuclear, gas, wind, solar and hydroelectric
generating 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 2.5 million residential, public sector and business
customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100.
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