Exelon Foundation Supports Important Work of We Are Family
16 May 2017 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Company volunteers will team with the nonprofit
to deliver food to home-bound District of Columbia residents
Exelon awarded a $25,000 grant to We Are Family,
a leading nonprofit dedicated
to addressing service gaps for senior
citizens in the nation’s capital. The grant benefits We
Are Family’s efforts to provide resources, such as
grocery delivery, and serve as advocates for hundreds of
seniors, connecting them to essential support services.
“The outreach and care offered by organizations like We Are
Family is essential to supporting the roughly one-third of
America’s seniors who live alone, often in isolation,” said
Maggie FitzPatrick, Exelon’s senior vice president
of Corporate Affairs, Philanthropy
and Customer Engagement, citing the U.S. Administration
on Aging. “Exelon supports organizations that keep
our communities closely connected, and We Are Family’s
work provides a vital lifeline for our seniors.”
On May 20, FitzPatrick, a resident of northwest Washington, will
join other Exelon and Pepco employees to deliver food to home-bound
seniors who struggle to access affordable, healthy meals. They will
join the more than 3,000 We Are Family community volunteers who
have contributed to the success of the food delivery programs. In
2016 alone, We Are Family and its volunteers delivered more than
8,500 grocery bags, conducted 540 in-home outreach visits, donated
hundreds of Thanksgiving baskets and holiday gifts and saved three
seniors from eviction.
“Our volunteers work each day to create affinity and lasting
connections between people of all walks of life and to foster a
community that honors its elders – where neighbors look out for
each other, where no one is forgotten and where everybody matters,”
said Mark Andersen, co-director of We Are Family. “We are heartened
by Exelon’s community leadership and contribution to our grocery
delivery program, which helps seniors in D.C. live comfortably and
continue aging with dignity.”
We Are Family was created in 2004 with a donation from
multi-platinum punk band Good Charlotte and its ally, Positive
Force DC, to leaders and community members in the North Capitol
neighborhood. This unique intersection of people – young and old,
black, brown and white, faith-based and secular – came together to
address various gaps in senior care for their community. Since
then, We Are Family has expanded the reach and impact of its
services, which now serve the Shaw, Columbia Heights, Petworth and
Adams Morgan neighborhoods.
Fortune recently named Exelon to its 2017 list of the World’s
Most Admired Companies, which, in part, recognized the company for
social responsibility initiatives such as charitable giving to
organizations like We Are Family. Last year, Exelon employees
contributed more than 170,000 hours of community service, and
Exelon companies and the Exelon Foundation donated more than $46
million to nonprofits – the largest amount ever for the
company.
For more information on Exelon’s commitment to the areas where
its employees live, work and serve, visit
www.exeloncorp.com/community.
To learn more about We Are Family’s work and impact, visit
www.wearefamilydc.org.
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
33,300 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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