Exelon Employees Volunteer 14,000 Hours for 375 Community Organizations in Support of #GivingTuesday
November 27 2017 - 3:39PM
Business Wire
Company to match employee donations on
#GivingTuesday; More than $8.2 million donated to nonprofits by
employees year-to-date
Employee volunteers from Exelon kicked off the holiday season by
contributing 14,000 volunteer hours and participating in more than
150 service projects in support of #GivingTuesday, the national day
of giving. More than 1,500 Exelon volunteers in 39 cities are
participating and have expanded their efforts this year by taking
part in charitable activities throughout the month of November.
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Exelon's #GivingTuesday contribution
summary for 2017. Employees volunteered more than 14,000 hours to
nonprofits for #GivingTuesday this year. (Graphic: Business
Wire)
#GivingTuesday, which falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving,
encourages acts of kindness and generosity from individuals, civic
organizations and businesses to help foster lasting change in
communities. Throughout the year, Exelon matches employee
charitable donations of $25 or more dollar-for-dollar. On
#GivingTuesday, Exelon will not only match employee contributions
dollar-for-dollar, but will also contribute an additional $100 on
employee donations of $100 or more to their charity of choice.
So far in 2017, employees have pledged more than $8.2 million
through Exelon’s Employee Giving Campaign, exceeding the company’s
goal and breaking previous records.
“We are proud to be part of the #GivingTuesday campaign and
support its mission to bring people together through community
service,” said Maggie FitzPatrick, senior vice president of
Corporate Affairs, Philanthropy and Customer Engagement at Exelon.
“Exelon employees across the country are passionate about giving
back to the communities where we live and work – dedicating more
than 176,000 hours to community service so far this year. It’s one
of the many ways we are living our values during the holidays and
throughout the year.”
Exelon’s community programs engage employees in volunteer and
charitable giving opportunities that enrich them personally and
professionally, while positively impacting the community
year-round. In the month of November alone, Exelon volunteer
activities included:
- Tutoring low-income children to improve
their reading comprehension skills through the Working in the
Schools Initiative (WITS) in Chicago and Philadelphia READS
- Hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for the
homeless with Catholic Charities at Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery in
Washington, D.C.
- Planting organic crops to support
access to sustainable nutrition at Urban Harvest’s Agape Community
Garden in Houston
- Restoring a no-kill shelter at the
Animal Welfare League of Queen Anne’s County in Maryland
- Sewing fleece blankets and writing
cards to pediatric patients at Lurie Children’s Hospital of
Chicago
- Helping maintain the nation’s oldest
memorial grove for Medal of Honor recipients in Valley Forge,
Pa.
Volunteers for #GivingTuesday service projects include employees
from all of Exelon’s businesses, including Atlantic City Electric
in New Jersey; Delmarva Power and Light headquartered in Delaware;
BGE and Constellation headquartered in Maryland; ComEd in northern
Illinois; PECO in southeastern Pennsylvania; Pepco in Washington,
D.C.; and Exelon Generation and the Exelon Business Services
Company in Illinois and across the mid-Atlantic region.
Employee donations to Exelon Foundation’s Matching Gifts
Program, in part, supported relief efforts following Hurricanes
Harvey, Irma and Maria and two earthquakes in Mexico. Exelon was
also named among the country’s 50 most community-minded companies
by Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to
volunteer service.
To learn more about Exelon’s initiatives to support communities,
visit exeloncorp.com/community and follow the hashtag
#ExelonVolunteers.
About Exelon
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 2016 revenue of $31.4 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
35,500 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 2.2 million residential, public sector and business
customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100.
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