PECO Employees Organize More Than 40 Community Service Projects to Celebrate National Volunteer Week
April 13 2015 - 9:01AM
Business Wire
More than 700 employees will donate more than
2,500 volunteer hours focused on environment, education and
community enrichment
Employees from across PECO are celebrating National Volunteer
Week (April 12-18) by participating in more than 40 employee-led
service projects throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. These
projects include cleaning up parks and other public spaces, serving
meals to people struggling with poverty and helping rebuild
homes.
“We are committed to giving back to the communities we serve,
not just during National Volunteer Week, but every day of the
year,” said Craig L. Adams, PECO president and CEO. “I am proud
that our employees have again come together to help our customers
and communities grow and prosper.”
Examples of PECO’s National Volunteer Week projects include:
- April 13 (Philadelphia) –
Landscaping and beautifying the grounds of the Free Library of
Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library
- April 14 (Doylestown, Pa.) –
Cleaning up soccer fields, landscaping and helping construct new
performance stage at Central Park
- April 15 (King of Prussia, Pa.)
– Packing 7,000 meal kits to stock local food pantries for United
Way’s UNITED2FEED initiative
- April 16 (Philadelphia) –
Improving trails and reinforcing a storm water management system
with Schuylkill River Development Corporation
- April 17 (West Chester, Pa.) –
Removing invasive plants and introducing native plants at Stroud
Preserve with Natural Lands Trust
- April 17 (Yeadon, Pa.) –
Painting and landscaping to help beautify the Yeadon Public
Library
National Volunteer Week is an annual, nationwide celebration of
people working to improve their communities through volunteer
service. For the ninth 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. This year, 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.
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.
PECO is one of the Greater Philadelphia region’s most active
corporate citizens, providing more than $5 million in grant support
annually to hundreds of educational, environmental, arts and
culture, and community develop organizations. Through PECO’s Energy
for the Community corporate citizenship program, PECO employees
gave more than 14,000 hours of time and talent as board members,
coaches and volunteers to support community nonprofit organizations
in 2014.
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.
Based in Philadelphia, PECO is an electric and natural gas
utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC). PECO serves
1.6 million electric and more than 506,000 natural gas customers in
southeastern Pennsylvania and employs about 2,400 people in the
region. PECO delivered 89.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas and
37.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014. 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. For
more information visit PECO.com, and connect with the company on
Facebook and Twitter.
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