PECO Employees Advancing the Region by Leading More Than 35 Community Service Projects for National Volunteer Week
April 24 2017 - 2:39PM
Business Wire
More than 700 employees will volunteer 2,500
hours in the communities where they live and work
Employees from across PECO are advancing our region and
celebrating National Volunteer Week (April 23-29) by participating
in more than 35 employee-led service projects across southeastern
Pennsylvania. These projects include renewing green spaces, serving
meals to families in need, and educating children about science in
the park.
“We do more than provide safe, reliable, affordable and clean
energy for our customers – our employees actively support the
communities where they live and work every day,” said Craig Adams,
PECO president and CEO. “We are proud to help so many local
nonprofit organizations achieve their goals and make our
communities a better place for our customers.”
Examples of PECO’s National Volunteer Week projects include:
- April 24 (Gladwyne, Pa.) –
Joining the Riverbend Environmental Center to perform planting,
weeding, and restoring the area to help enhance the habitat for
local wildlife
- April 25 (West Chester, Pa.) –
Restoring wetlands to support habitat management at the Natural
Lands Trusts Stroud Preserve
- April 26 (Phoenixville, Pa.)
– Beautifying the grounds and painting benches of the
nation’s oldest Medal of Honor Memorial
- April 27 (Philadelphia) –
Providing activities and educational experiences for participating
children, who will learn about sound, music, art, building
construction, and more at the Independence National Historical
Park
- April 28 (Warminster, Pa.) –
Assembling care packages for active military service men and
women
National Volunteer Week is an annual, nationwide celebration of
people working to improve their communities through volunteer
service. For the 11th consecutive year, PECO employees are
organizing community service projects for more than 900 employees,
family members and friends to participate in throughout April.
PECO and its parent company Exelon recognize National Volunteer
Week by empowering employees to design their service projects and
recruit others to participate. This year, employees across Exelon
will participate in more than 125 community service projects in
April. Projects will focus on education, environmental stewardship,
diversity and inclusion, and community enrichment.
In addition to PECO, National Volunteer Week will include
employee-led service projects from across the Exelon family of
companies including: ComEd in Illinois, Constellation and BGE in
Maryland, Pepco in Washington D.C., Delmarva Power in Delaware,
Atlantic City Electric in New Jersey, and Exelon Generation and
Exelon Business Services Company in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and
Texas.
PECO is one of the Greater Philadelphia region’s most active
corporate citizens, providing more than $6 million in grant support
annually to hundreds of educational, environmental, arts and
culture, and community development organizations. Through PECO’s
Energy for the Community corporate citizenship program, PECO
employees gave nearly 21,000 hours of time and talent as board
members, coaches and volunteers to support community nonprofit
organizations in 2016.
PECO, founded in 1881, is Pennsylvania’s largest electric and
natural gas utility. Headquartered in Philadelphia, PECO
delivers energy to more than 1.6 million electric customers and
more than 516,000 natural gas customers in southeastern,
Pennsylvania. The company’s 2,500 employees are dedicated to
the safe and reliable delivery of electricity and natural gas as
well as enhanced energy management conservation, environmental
stewardship and community assistance. The company also has an
estimated annual economic impact of $4.3 billion in Pennsylvania,
supporting more than 8,700 local jobs and producing $732 million in
labor income. PECO is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation
(NYSE: EXC), the nation's only Fortune 100 utility and leading
competitive energy provider. For more information
visit PECO.com, and connect with the company
on Facebook and Twitter.
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Editor’s note: PECO will provide a daily digest of our
National Volunteer Week events occurring across the Greater
Philadelphia region throughout this week. For more information on
any of these events, contact us at
peco.communication@exeloncorp.com or 215-841-5555.
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