National Grid Employees Lend a Helping Hand Supporting Our Local Communities
National Grid employee volunteers take pride in showing up in the communities we serve to lend a helping hand. These are the same communities where our employees live and work and it’s part of our Project C initiative.
To celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, our own employee resource group, Asian Leadership Association (ALA), thought of a good way to give back by sponsoring a volunteer event with The Campaign Against Hunger (TCAH) Farm. TCAH has been a leader in the Urban Farming revolution since 2007. Having started with two backyard plots, TCAH now operates two robust youth-led Urban Argo-Educational Centers. Our volunteers worked at the Far Rock Urban Agro-Ecological Center (aka “Far Rock Farm”) on bed preparation, weeding and transplanting seedlings.
(Photo – National Grid Employee Haejae Lee holding the center’s resident hen Bertha at Far Rock Urban Agro-Ecological Center.)
Here are some other ways we’ve showed up for New York City communities in recent months.
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, National Grid volunteers partnered with the non-profit organization UA3 giving out food, masks, and hand sanitizers to hundreds of community residents. Elected officials on hand to support the events were Council Member Alexa Avilés, Council Member Justin Brannan, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and NYS Senator Chuck Schumer.
(Photo: left to right in front row are Yelena Bugayenko, National Grid volunteer; Asiyah Piper, National Grid; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; and Luis Banegas, National Grid Customer and Community Intern. Back row: second from left are Daniel Goodine Sr. Men Elevating Leadership (M.E.L.); and Don Hong, UA3 CEO in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.)
(Photo: Left to right is Don Hong - UA3 CEO; National Grid volunteers Renee McClure and Natasha Bacchus, NYS Senator Chuck Schumer; and National Grid volunteers Asiyah Piper and Gabriela Colon in South Ozone Park, Queens.)
(Photo: National Grid employees with members of UA3, Bangladeshi American Society Inc., and International Lions Club of New York – Flushing Central Lions Club in South Ozone Park, Queens)
(Photo: National Grid volunteers Gabriela Colon, Natasha Bacchus, Asiyah Piper and Renee McClure in South Ozone Park, Queens)
We also teamed up with North Brooklyn Angels at Most Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn to help hand out hand out toys, clothes, food, and other items to over 100 expecting families and mothers. We also provided information on our income eligible programs for those customers who may be experiencing hardships in paying their energy bills.
(Photo: left to right are National Grid volunteers Ivelisse Lopez, Asiyah Piper, Toni Robinson, and Renee McClure at Most Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn)
(Photo: National Grid volunteer Terry Yarde assists member of the community at Most Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn)
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