PECO Employees Give Back to the Community by Leading More Than 35 Community Service Projects for National Volunteer Week
09 May 2017 - 4:34AM
Business Wire
Employees from across PECO advanced the local region and
celebrated National Volunteer Week by participating in more than 35
employee-led service projects across southeastern Pennsylvania.
Throughout the week, more than 700 employees volunteered 2,500
hours in the communities where they live and work. These projects
included renewing green spaces, serving meals to families in need,
and educating children about science.
“Through our service projects, we are proud to support so many
local nonprofit organizations that make our communities a better
place for our customers,” said Romona Riscoe Benson, Director of
Corporate Relations at PECO. “Our employee volunteerism with local
nonprofits and civic organizations extends well beyond National
Volunteer Week, and will remain a guiding principle of our
company.”
Some highlights from PECO’s National Volunteer Week projects
include:
- April 24 – Employees joined the
Riverbend Environmental Center to perform planting and weeding to
restore the area and help enhance the habitat for local
wildlife
- April 25 – Employees revitalized
wetlands to support habitat management at the Natural Lands Trusts
Stroud Preserve
- April 26 – Employees beautified
the grounds and painted benches at the nation’s oldest Medal of
Honor Memorial
- April 27 – Employees provided
educational experiences to children by teaching them about sound,
music, art, and building construction at the Independence National
Historical Park
- April 28 – Employees assembled
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 organized
community service projects for more than 900 employees, family
members and friends to participate in throughout April.
In addition to National Volunteer Week, PECO employees organized
more than 55 volunteer service projects, recruited and engaged over
750 employees, and contributed more than 2,500 hours of service to
the community throughout the entire month of April. This year,
employees from PECO and its parent company Exelon, participated in
more than 125 community service projects throughout the month. The
projects focused on education, environmental stewardship, diversity
and inclusion, and community enrichment.
In addition to PECO, National Volunteer Week included
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
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