PECO Employees Hold More than 40 Local Community Service Projects to Celebrate National Volunteer Week
April 07 2014 - 4:19PM
Business Wire
Employees from across PECO will celebrate National Volunteer
Week (April 6-12) by participating in more than 40 employee-led
service projects throughout the Greater Philadelphia area,
including cleaning up parks and other public spaces, serving meals
to people struggling with poverty and mentoring at-risk
students.
“Our employees are committed to giving to the communities we
serve,” said Craig L. Adams, president and CEO, PECO. “All year
long, we put our energy into projects throughout the region to help
our customers and our communities grow and prosper.”
Examples of PECO’s National Volunteer Week projects include:
- April 8 (Philadelphia) – Renovate a
home for a family in need with ACHIEVEability
- April 9 (Erdenheim, Pa.) – Plant trees
and beautify Cisco Park in Springfield Township
- April 10 (Philadelphia) – Prepare an
evening meal and assist in library clean-up at Attic Youth
Center
- April 11 (Philadelphia) – Sort food and
package meals for the hungry at Philabundance
- April 11 (Doylestown, Pa.) – Build
benches and plant trees in Doylestown’s Central Park
National Volunteer Week is an annual, nationwide celebration of
people working to improve their communities through volunteer
service. For the eighth consecutive year, PECO employees are
organizing community service projects for more than 700 employees,
family members and friends to participate in throughout April.
PECO and its parent company Exelon recognize National Volunteer
Week by empowering employee volunteers to design their service
projects and recruit others to participate. For the 8th consecutive
year, more than 1,000 employees across Exelon will participate in
more than 150 community service projects in April. Projects will
focus on education, environmental stewardship, diversity and
inclusion, and community enrichment, and involve employee
volunteers from across the company.
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, and Exelon Generation and Exelon Business Services
Company in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Texas.
Through PECO’s Energy for the Community corporate citizenship
program, PECO employees gave almost 12,000 hours to community
nonprofit organizations in 2013.
Based in Philadelphia, PECO is an electric and natural gas
utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC). PECO serves
1.6 million electric and 497,000 natural gas customers in
southeastern Pennsylvania and employs about 2,400 people in the
region. PECO delivered 85.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas and
37.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2013. Founded in
1881, PECO is one of the Greater Philadelphia Region's most active
corporate citizens, providing leadership, volunteer and financial
support to numerous arts and culture, education, environmental,
economic development and community programs and organizations.
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