Duke Energy In Action Month

Our purpose at Duke Energy is to power the lives of our customers and the vitality of our communities. For more than 100 years, Duke Energy has proudly served our communities through charitable giving and employee volunteerism. This passion for giving back is part of our legacy and who we are as a company. During May, we are celebrating Duke Energy In Action Month. Throughout the month, our employees will be volunteering at a diverse group of nonprofit partners in the communities we serve. When our communities succeed, we succeed.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

How Hope, Dreams are Improving Charlotte Neighborhood
RWCI’s holistic cradle-to-career approach attacks the factors that can keep families poor, from lack of education, skills, child care, affordable housing and transportation to crime, mental health and substance abuse issues. A variety of agencies, including housing, social services and medical, as well as nonprofits and business leaders have footprints planted firmly in the effort.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Selects North Carolina Locations for Economic Development Program
Duke Energy has selected six North Carolina properties for participation in the first half of its 2017 Site Readiness Program to prepare them for business and industrial development.

Environment

Duke Energy Invites Students to Learn About Falcons at Indiana Facility
Peregrine falcons may not be on the endangered species list any more, but they’ve got special friends in Indiana. After three falcon chicks were born on a perch at Duke Energy’s Gallagher Station smoke stack B recently, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) retrieved them for banding and a naming ceremony.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Students Help Build Hope for Victims of Hurricane Matthew
Amid the sawdust and hum of power tools, students at East Columbus High School in Lake Waccamaw, N.C., are helping rebuild their community. Students built 50 wooden bed frames in their classroom workshop for Columbus County residents whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Matthew. The October 2016 storm started in Florida and moved up the coast, killing nearly 50 people and damaging more than 100,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Indiana University Bloomington's Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale Benefits Community and Environment
Indiana University Bloomington found a way to turn trash into treasure. At the end of each spring semester, the university’s sustainability office and the City of Bloomington collect items that students left in their apartments for the Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Throwback Thursday: Duke Energy Volunteers Through the Decades
Volunteer work is part of Duke Energy's legacy and identity as a company. Duke Energy is committed to powering the lives of its customers and the vitality of it communities in the seven states it serves. That's why employees contribute their time and money giving back to the community.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Employees Volunteer 6,000 Hours During May Campaign
Our purpose at Duke Energy is to power the lives of our customers and the vitality of our communities. For more than 100 years, Duke Energy has proudly served our communities through charitable giving and employee volunteerism. This passion for giving back is part of our legacy and who we are as a company.

Social Impact & Volunteering

These Plant Workers Are Devoted to Helping Their Town
Employees at Allen Steam Station have a history of service, but last year, plant manager Brent Dueitt decided he wanted to do more. So, he trusted Adam Toney with building relationships and finding new ways employees could help.

Education

Kip, Kip, Hooray: The Osprey has a Name
"Ooohh," "Aahhh," "Whoooaaa."

Those sounds were some of the not really quiet, but trying to be quiet, squeals from 150 elementary students as Skoshi, a 28-year-old red-tailed hawk, made an appearance at Oakhurst STEAM Academy in Charlotte, N.C.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy and YMCA Team Up to Give Back
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Duke Energy is finding ways to give back during the month of May through projects across the Charlotte area.
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