Exelon Volunteers Support Hurricane Harvey Rebuilding Efforts, Donations Total More Than $350,000
September 06 2017 - 6:08PM
Business Wire
Employee gifts and Exelon Foundation match
contribute more than $200,000, in addition to corporate donation of
$150,000;
100 volunteers will travel to aid affected
areas
Employees from Exelon Corporation are working to restore homes
and rebuild lives in the Houston area following the devastating
effects of Hurricane Harvey.
Along with a $150,000 donation by Exelon and Constellation, the
company’s competitive retail and wholesale business, employees
across the company have donated approximately $100,000 to Houston
charities, which will be matched dollar-for-dollar through the
Exelon Foundation Matching Gifts program for an additional
$100,000.
Employees across the Exelon family of companies have banded
together to support their colleagues in a variety of ways,
including rebuilding homes, shuttling rental cars from Dallas and
providing food and shelter to those whose homes are now
uninhabitable. Constellation Field, a minor league baseball stadium
in Sugarland, Texas was temporarily opened as a shelter for those
displaced by the flooding and was used as a Red Cross training
center. Company volunteers will now use the field as a staging area
to assist with clean-up efforts in the weeks to come.
Throughout September, close to 100 employee volunteers from
various company locations will travel to affected areas to support
recovery efforts, working with the nonprofit All Hands Volunteers.
Employees will also donate their time to Habitat for Humanity
restoration efforts, benefiting displaced families in northeast
Houston’s Harrell Park neighborhood.
“We continue to stand by our Houston colleagues as they recover
from this tragedy,” said Chris Crane, Exelon president and CEO.
“The outpouring of generosity and strength is a testament to the
values we live each day.”
Exelon has approximately 500 employees at facilities throughout
the Houston area, including a Constellation regional office and
Exelon Power electricity generating stations. While all employees
have been accounted for, several of their homes -- like so many in
the region -- have either been destroyed or sustained significant
damage. Affected employees will be eligible for grants of up to
$10,000 from the Exelon Foundation.
Exelon also expects to provide additional financial support for
long-term recovery efforts through the company’s upcoming Employee
Giving Campaign.
To learn more about Exelon’s initiatives to support the
communities where its employees live and work, visit
exeloncorp.com.
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
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 2.2 million residential, public sector and business
customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100.
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