Employee Grants and Volunteerism

PSEG supports several programs focused on making a difference in the lives of children and adults in our community. We also recognize and reward employee volunteers through grants to nonprofit organizations.

• Dollars for Doers (now Power of Giving Volunteer Grant Program!)
• Support for Sports (now Power of Giving Volunteer Grant Program!)
• Recognizing Excellence in Volunteerism
• Downtown Education Enrichment Program (DEEP-C)
• Junior Achievement of New Jersey
• March of Dimes
• Power of Giving
• Educational Matching Gift Program

Dollars for Doers (now Power of Giving Volunteer Grant Program)

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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Support for Sports (now Power of Giving Volunteer Grant Program)

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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Recognizing Excellence in Volunteerism

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 2012 recipients will be formally recognized at a ceremony on October 4.

The PSEG Recognizing Excellence in Volunteerism program has now been expanded so that even more employees can participate. Volunteer activities no longer need to be concentrated in one of PSEG’s main priority areas (environment, education, community & economic development). The program is now open to all volunteer activities.

• Guidelines
  
• Application 

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Downtown Education Enrichment Program (DEEP-C)

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Junior Achievement of New Jersey

It’s never too early for students to begin preparing for careers, and corporate employees can be good role models. Through Junior Achievement of New Jersey, PSEG employees work with students at Belmont Runyon Elementary School in Newark and Paterson No. 5 School in Paterson.

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. 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’ March for Babies campaign. It is the organization’s biggest fundraising event. Employees also conduct fundraising activities throughout the year. The 2008 March of Dimes campaign results prove that we as a company can certainly accomplish great things. In 2008, 800 PSEG walkers raised over $300,000, once again making PSEG #1 among the nation’s 279 utilities that participated and the #1 company overall in New Jersey! In addition to our company’s first place results, PSEG received a Crystal award for the North Jersey Newark Team. There was also a Line of Business (LOB) Challenge competition that recognizes the LOB with the most improved recruitment of walkers and the most improved fundraising. This year’s winner for the “Most Improved Walker Participation” was Gas Delivery and for “Most Improved Dollars Raised” it was Nuclear.

In total March for Babies 2008 raised $3.9 million in New Jersey and $115 million nationally; 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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Power of Giving

This program is for PSEG employees only.  Please visit http://www.easymatch.com/pseg for more information or contact the Corporate Responsibility Dept.

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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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