Exelon Foundation Grants Over $850,000 to Education Organizations Providing STEM Education in Delaware, District of Columbia Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Exelon Foundation Grants Over $850,000 to Education Organizations Providing STEM Education in Delaware, District of Columbia Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

28 schools and education-focused nonprofits are receiving grants to modernize or create state-of-the-art science labs, championing a new thinking about our environment.

CHICAGO — Exelon Corporation (Nasdaq: EXC), the nation’s premier transmission and distribution utility company, and the Exelon Foundation have awarded Green Lab Grants for the third consecutive year. To date, the program has provided $2.5 million to more than 70 grantees, which include public schools, private schools, and education-focused nonprofit organizations that run out-of-school programs serving Title I-eligible middle and high school students.

“STEM skills are critically important to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s careers,” said Calvin Butler, president and chief operating officer of Exelon. “By partnering with organizations who help students outside of the school day, we give educators the resources they need to train young people in fields that will lead to good jobs. We hope that one day these students can work for us, helping Exelon lead the clean energy transformation.”

Grantees receive up to $50,000 each to support hands-on educational spaces where students can prepare for careers in science, technology, math and/or engineering (STEM). These funds are used to create or modernize spaces with interactive activities and encourage a deeper understanding of how technology can be leveraged to promote environmental sustainability. Grantees are chosen through an independent review process administered by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

This year’s Green Lab Grants recipients are:
Delaware Cab Calloway School Fund
$7,700.00; SMArtSummer ECO Camp Scholarships for Title 1 Students
District of Columbia
American Nuclear Society
$24,837.00; ANS Nuclear Science Club at the University of Maryland
DC International School
$2,000; Greenovations
Illinois
After the Peanut Foundation
$49,636.00; STEAM CEO: Solar Power!
Cobra Back Foundation
$25,000.00; INNER-CITY RCP
Covenant Faith Church
$5,000.00; Shoot for the Stars After-School Program
Envision Community Services
$50,000.00; ECS Energy
Homewood Science Center
$28,708.00; Green Lab Field Trip
Imagine Englewood If
$6,500.00; Greater Englewood Innovators Club
Josephinum Academy of the Sacred Heart
$40,000.00; The Exelon Foundation Green Lab at Josephinum Academy
Latino Youth High School
$49,980.00; LYHS STEM levels up!
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation
$36,000.00; STEAM Innovation Lab: Accessible STEAM learning and exploration
Northern Illinois University Foundation
$39,930.00; Green STEAM Team Labs
Rich Township High School District 227
$40,000.00; A STEM Urban Agriculture Research Project
St. Patrick High School Beekeeping Club
$15,000.00; Bees on Belmont
STEAM on Wheels
$38,598.00; Expanding Hands-On STEM Opportunities in Green Energy for Low-Income Illinois Students
The Black Star Project
$40,000.00; Project Green House
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
$24,127.04; Teen STEM Lab of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Youth & Opportunity United
$32,608.07; MakerSpace
Maryland
Coppin State University
$39,755.00; Changing Our EcoSystem 1 E at a Time
Frederick Innovative Technology Center, Inc.
$25,000.00; Future STEM CEOs
Next One Up
$50,000.00; Next One Up's STEM lab at Base Camp
Phase 3 Training Corporation
$40,000.00; Young Builder's STEM Lab
Requity Foundation Inc $39,000.00; Baltimore Green Lab Project
New Jersey Midland Park Jr/Sr High School & Girls Who Code
$1,000.00; Robotics for STEM Program NAACP ACT-SO Program
$10,522.72; ACTSO STEM Newark Water Coalition
$40,000.00; Waterbenders Community Lab Scholars Program Pennsylvania
The JYK Discovery Charter School $50,000.00; STEAM AHEAD

The Green Lab Grants program is one of several Exelon initiatives that support education and workforce development, including the Exelon Foundation STEM Leadership Academy and HBCU Corporate Scholars Program.
Together, Exelon and its energy delivery companies —Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco—have more than 80 unique workforce development programs designed to bring economic equity, empowerment and employment opportunity to under-resourced communities.
More information about Exelon’s culture of corporate citizenship is available at exeloncorp.com.

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