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BGE Employees Participate in Day of Service to Celebrate Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
[January 19, 2015]

BGE Employees Participate in Day of Service to Celebrate Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


In celebration, recognition and honor of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) employees teamed up today for a day of service with three community service organizations across Baltimore. BGE employee volunteers and members of the employee resource group, Exelon's African-American Resource Alliance (EAARA), Baltimore Chapter, participated in "A Day ON (News - Alert)," with local nonprofits Art with a Heart, The Loading Dock and The Sixth Branch.

In celebration, recognition and honor of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., BGE empl ...

In celebration, recognition and honor of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., BGE employees teamed up today for a day of service with three community service organizations across Baltimore. BGE employees participated in "A Day ON," with local nonprofits The Sixth Branch, Art with a Heart and The Loading Dock. Pictured, BGE employee America Lesh participates in a park cleanup in East Baltimore with The Sixth Branch. (Photo: Business Wire)

BGE employees volunteered at a neighborhood clean-up with The Sixth Branch in East Baltimore's Darley Park community, creating a safe park for residents and their families. This is the fourth year The Sixth Branch has led a neighborhood clean-up in East Baltimore communities in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Sixth Branch is a nonprofit organization utilizing the leadership and organizational skills of military veterans to execute aggressive community service initiatives at the local level. The Sixth Branch builds community by bringing together service-minded veterans and civilians to serve its communities on the home front.

BGE employees also volunteered with The Loading Dock, Maryland's premier building materials reuse facility, which offers affordable, interesting finds to people who need inexpensive housing improvement and building materials and are interested in keeping material out of the waste stream. BGE volunteers spent the day sorting, organizing and cleaning donated building materials, creating displays, relocating donated materials from one area of the warehouse and shoroom to another, pricing materials for sale and taking inventory.



BGE employee volunteers and members of the employee resource group, Exelon's African-American Resource Alliance (EAARA), Baltimore Chapter, spent the day with Art with a Heart, working to finish community enhancement projects in the Art with a Heart studio space. Art with a Heart brings 10,000 visual art classes to abused, neglected and abandoned children; homeless people; battered women and their children; mentally and physically disabled adults; low-income senior citizens; elementary, middle, and high school students; youth in after-school programs; and children receiving long-term health care.

BGE and its employees embrace the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. not just in celebration of today's Holiday, but year-round. Through BGE's employee volunteer network, 'Energy for the Community,' BGE employees lend their time and passion to corporate citizenship activities. In 2014, BGE employees donated more than 24,000 volunteer hours to various nonprofit organizations. In addition, BGE contributed nearly $3.7 million to charitable organizations in support of more than 275 nonprofit organizations across Central Maryland. For more information on BGE's commitment to corporate philanthropy and employee volunteering efforts, visit bge.com.


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, environment, community development and arts and culture.

BGE's corporate citizenship aligns with that of its parent company, Exelon Corporation. As part of Exelon's merger in March 2012, Exelon and its subsidiaries have 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 with a focus on the areas of education, arts and culture, the environment and community development.

EAARA is one of Exelon's Employee Network Groups (ENGs), which support diversity and inclusion, bring insight to Exelon's strategies and goals and serve as a resource to the corporation and its employees. The groups are self-initiated, voluntary, corporate-wide and inclusive. Current ENGs represent various communities, including African-Americans; Latinos; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Individuals; Women; Military/Veterans; and Asian Americans.

BGE, headquartered in Baltimore, is Maryland's largest gas and electric utility, delivering power to more than 1.2 million electric customers and more than 655,000 natural gas customers in central Maryland. The company's approximately 3,400 employees are committed to the safe and reliable delivery of 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 2013 revenues of approximately $24.9 billion. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.


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