BGE Kicks Off a Month of Service Events Today at Real Food Farm in Baltimore City in Celebration of National Volunteer Week
April 09 2015 - 6:26PM
Business Wire
Today’s event was the first of more than 30
volunteer events for employees focused on environment, education
and community enrichment planned at nonprofits across central
Maryland throughout the month of April
Employees from across Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)
are celebrating National Volunteer Week (April 12-18) by
participating in nearly 30 employee-led service projects in central
Maryland and the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metro area
throughout the month of April. The month of service events kicked
off today at Real Food Farm in Baltimore City. BGE employee
volunteers completed landscaping and planting projects, refreshed
signage and worked in the hoop houses, weeding and gardening, to
prepare them for the spring. Real Food Farm is Civic Works’
innovative urban agricultural enterprise engaged in growing fresh
produce on eight acres in and around Clifton Park in northeast
Baltimore. To view additional photos from today’s event, visit
BGE’s Flickr site at www.flickr.com/photos/mybge.
BGE volunteers completed landscaping and
planting projects at Real Food Farm to prepare for the spring
planting season. Pictured (left to right): Priscilla Akuoko, Amanda
Engel, Morgan Vessels, Rachael Lighty, David Milton, Melissa Cheek,
Stephanie Leach and January Mallory. (Photo: Business Wire)
National Volunteer Week is an annual, nationwide celebration of
people working to improve their communities through volunteer
service. Each year, BGE employees organize community service
projects for the company’s 3,200 employees, family members and
friends to participate in throughout April. This year, more than
550 BGE employees will donate more than 1,800 hours focused on
projects that include cleaning up parks and other public spaces,
planting trees, maintaining the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Gardens,
serving meals to people struggling with poverty and helping rebuild
homes, among others. For a full list of BGE’s National Volunteer
Week projects visit bge.com/giving.
Whether it’s through employee volunteer opportunities or
charitable giving, BGE is proud to have a long history of
empowering our employees to volunteer with organizations that have
a positive impact on the communities which BGE serves. Our
employees are strongly dedicated to giving back to communities
throughout central Maryland.
Since its founding nearly 200 years ago, BGE has played an
integral role in working with Maryland communities to address
economic development, public safety, civic issues and other
initiatives that help enhance our neighborhoods. Through the use of
shareholder dollars, BGE supports programs that deliver measurable
and sustainable impact in areas of education, the environment,
community development and arts and culture.
BGE has committed to maintain charitable giving of an average of
$7 million per year in Maryland, including BGE’s service area, for
the next 10 years. BGE employees gave more than 25,000 hours of
time and talent as board members, coaches, emergency responders and
volunteers to support hundreds of community nonprofit organizations
in 2014.
About BGE
BGE, headquartered in Baltimore, is Maryland’s largest natural
gas and electric utility, delivering power to more than 1.25
million electric customers and more than 650,000 natural gas
customers in central Maryland. The company’s approximately 3,200
employees are committed to the safe and reliable delivery of
natural gas and electricity, as well as enhanced energy management,
conservation, environmental stewardship and community assistance.
BGE is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s
leading competitive energy provider, with 2014 revenues of
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE)Rachael Lighty,
rachael.lighty@bge.comBGE Media Hotline: 410-470-7433
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