Rockland Utilities Raises Funds For UWRC

From UWRC: United Way of Rockland County (UWRC) has named Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) its Top Corporate Donor for its successful fundraising drive that this year raised over $150,000 to support United Way programs.

O&R achieved this year’s United Way campaign results by combining a dynamic fund-raising drive partnership between the Company and its bargaining unit, IBEW Local 503, with a dollar-for-dollar, shareholder match to raise $157,128.

The O&R-IBEW Local 503 fund-raising drive raised $78,564 from among O&R’s current employees and its retirees. The Company matched that sum dollar-for-dollar with another $78,564 from the shareholder funds of Consolidated Edison, Inc., O&R’s parent company.

Since 1993, O&R and Local 503 have donated approximately $4 million in employee and retiree contributions and shareholder matches to the United Way.

O&R employs approximately 1,100 people, almost all of whom also live in the O&R service area.

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies.

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R), a regulated energy company, provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State and northern New Jersey, and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.

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