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Support for Sports The PSEG Support for Sports Program is designed to identify our employees as community leaders and volunteers, and to increase awareness of the company's support to the community. The program provides $300 grants to organizations served by our employees who are involved with their community’s youth sports.
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Dollars for Doers The PSEG Dollars for Doers grant program is the company's way of recognizing, supporting, and encouraging the valuable contributions of our employees' volunteer efforts. The program provides $250 grants to nonprofit organizations on behalf of PSEG volunteers.
This year’s PSEG Dollars for Doers program is better than ever because more employees can participate. The program is now available to all eligible employee volunteers, no matter where they live or work, or where the organization they serve is located. Employees no longer need to complete six months of volunteer service to an organization before applying. Lastly, but certainly not least, PSEG teams can now apply! These changes provide opportunities for additional PSEG employees to participate. Our goal is to recognize more employees for their community service.
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Educational Matching Gift Program The Educational Matching Gift Program matches dollar-for-dollar, contributions made by employees, retirees, directors and retired directors to educational institutions that meet eligibility criteria.
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Recognizing Excellence in Volunteerism
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Each year, PSEG recognizes employees' volunteer efforts by awarding grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to the qualified nonprofit organization where they volunteer. Up to seventeen PSEG employees or employee teams are honored annually as winners of the company's Recognizing Excellence in Volunteerism awards. Representatives of the organizations served by these employees attend the PSEG Recognition Celebration, where the award-winning volunteers are recognized in front of many of their peers and senior management. |
Time after time, each organization that receives a contribution on behalf of a PSEG employee expresses appreciation not only for the monetary donation, but also for the valuable gift of our associates' time, spirit and dedication to helping others.
Employees may nominate themselves or a co-worker for the prestigious awards, or they may be nominated by the organization they serve. The 2007 recipients were formally recognized at a luncheon held at PSEG headquarters in December 2007.
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For your reference, below are links to the 2007 guidelines and application. Please check back in May for the new 2008 guidelines and application.
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Children in Need of Donations from You Foundation (C.I.N.D.Y.) Founded in 1989 by former PSE&G employee Rosemary Jefferson, the C.I.N.D.Y. Foundation is a nonprofit organization that collects toys and clothing for poor, sick and homeless children. PSEG employee volunteers make regularly scheduled visits to hospitals, homeless shelters and day care centers. PSEG associates also comprise the Board of Directors. For more information about C.I.N.D.Y., send an email to psempclub@earthlink.net
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Downtown Education Enrichment Program (DEEP-C)
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Making a positive difference in the life of a child can happen in many ways. At PSEG, employee volunteers make a commitment to tutor a group of students from Newark's Quitman Street School. On Wednesdays, from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. at PSE&G's Newark headquarters, the students meet with their PSEG tutors, who also serve as mentors and role models. Protestant Community Centers Inc. (PCCI) sponsors this initiative, known as DEEP-C.The program runs from October through May of each school year.
For more information about this program, please contact Erica Lembo at 973-430-6290.
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Junior Achievement of New Jersey
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These volunteers teach economic concepts to children in Kindergarten through Grade 8, stressing the relationship between school and future success. Junior Achievement's programs complement class curricula and are easily integrated into K-12 lesson plans. To volunteer or for more information, please contact Rosa Schmidt at 973-430-7601, or by e-mail at Rosa.Schmidt@pseg.com. For more information on Junior Achievement of New Jersey, call Catherine Milone, President at 609-419-0404, ext. 108.
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March of Dimes “To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.” That’s the mission of the March of Dimes which, in its own infancy in the early 1900s, conducted life saving research to fight and beat the U.S. polio epidemic. Today, the organization’s work continues in full force, with an ever-growing list of accomplishments.
Annually, hundreds of PSEG employees participate in March of Dimes’ WalkAmerica, now called the March for Babies. It is the organization’s biggest fundraising event. Employees also conduct fundraising activities throughout the year. The 2007 March of Dimes WalkAmerica campaign results prove that we as a company can certainly accomplish great things. In 2007, 525 PSEG walkers raised over $216,000 making our company, once again, #1 among the nation’s 279 utilities that participated and the #2 company overall in New Jersey, preceded only by Kmart. In addition to our company’s first place results, PSEG received three Crystal Awards from the northern, central and southern divisions of the March of Dimes. A fourth Crystal Award was presented to PSEG Nuclear for their outstanding work.
In total WalkAmerica 2007 raised $110 million; more than three-quarters of the money raised went directly towards fulfilling the mission of the March of Dimes. Supporting the March of Dimes is a proud tradition at PSEG, and the employees have their own leadership steering committee to coordinate the company’s support to this well-respected nonprofit. To contact the steering committee, please send an email to MarchofDimes@pseg.com.
To learn more about the March of Dimes and the March for Babies, contact Dania Sargent at DSargent@marchofdimes.com or visit www.marchofdimes.com/newjersey.
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