Constellation Announces 74 Community Champions Grant Recipients Across 11 States
April 03 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Residential electricity and natural gas supply
customers can nominate their favorite local project or cause for
funding
Constellation today named 74 new grant recipients through its
Community Champions program, donating more than $35,000 to
community organizations focused on education, youth development and
environmental projects. Constellation’s Community Champions program
allows the company’s residential electricity and natural gas supply
customers to nominate a local project or cause for grant funding.
The next deadline for grant submissions is May 15, 2017.
“Constellation is pleased to support our customers’ dedication
to giving back to their communities,” said Kevin Klages, senior
vice president, mass markets for Constellation. “Since the
program’s inception in 2013, Constellation’s Community Champions
Program has awarded over $315,000 in funding to more than 660
projects that have made significant educational and environmental
impacts in the communities we serve.”
For Constellation customer Amy Yates, the $500 Community
Champions grant helps to build an outdoor classroom for Little Mill
Middle School in Forsyth County, Georgia.
“We are building raised gardens for vegetables, benches, and a
covered area for classes to meet,” said Yates. “Thank you
Constellation for helping us further our goals for our deserving
students!”
Helen Ponce’s $500 Community Champions award went to the Haven
House Art Project, a healing art programs for women at the Haven
House domestic abuse shelter in Georgia. “My class teaches the
women at this shelter that art can create a space to heal. The
funds from this grant will help me to keep giving the healing gift
of art. Thank you!”
Other Constellation customers are using Community Champions to
support the Southwest Tech Foundation, in Fennimore, Wisconsin and
to provide benefit support for the therapeutic horse program SIRE
and its annual event in Houston, Texas. A full list of new grant
recipients can be viewed here.
Customers are encouraged to go online to nominate their favorite
local project or cause. To apply,
visit www.constellation.com/communitychampions and have
your account number on hand to identify you as a Constellation
customer. Community-based efforts focusing on education, youth and
the environment are eligible for funding. Designated 501 (c)(3)
nonprofit organizations are eligible for requests up to $500, and
other community causes may submit requests up to $250. Grant
submissions are accepted three times each year in February, May and
September.
To learn more about the program visit the Community
Champions section of www.constellation.com or
www.youtube.com/ConstellationEnergy.
About Constellation
Constellation is a leading competitive energy company providing
power, natural gas and energy products and services for homes and
businesses across the continental United States. Constellation
serves more than 2.2 million residential, public sector and
business customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune
100. Constellation is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE:
EXC), the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with 2016
revenues of approximately $31.4 billion, and more than 32,700
megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation's cleanest
and lowest-cost power generation fleets. Learn more at
www.constellation.com or on Twitter at @ConstellationEG.
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