United Way Honors O&R for Top-Donor Fundraising Campaign
United Way of Rockland County (UWRC) has named Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) its Top Corporate Donor for the successful fundraising drive that this year raised over $128,000 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 $128,123.60.
The O&R-IBEW Local 503 fund-raising drive raised $64,061.80 from among O&R’s current employees and its retirees. The Company matched that sum dollar-for-dollar with another $64,061.80 from the shareholder funds of Consolidated Edison, Inc., O&R’s parent company.
Since 1993, O&R and Local 503 have donated over $4 million in employee and retiree contributions and shareholder matches to the United Way.
O&R employs approximately 1,200 people, almost all of whom also live in the O&R service area.
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R), a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies, is a regulated utility. O&R provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State (where its franchise name is Orange & Rockland) and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company) and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.

Pictured here at United Way of Rockland’s annual recognition breakfast are members of O&R’s team, from left: Regional and Community Affairs Manager Kate Wysokowski, Strategic Partnerships’ Lisa Culhane, Regional and Community Affairs Director Neil Winter, Regional and Community Affairs Manager Trish Austin, Customer Service Director and UWRC Board of Directors’ member David Braunfotel and Strategic Partnerships Manager Linda Feger.
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