Community Involvement
Duke Energy believes in giving back to the communities where our employees live and work.
Volunteer
We strongly encourage employees and retirees to seek out opportunities to volunteer with charitable organizations throughout the year, but especially during our company-wide Global Service Event.
Give
To encourage and support the generosity of Duke Energy employees and retirees, we established The Duke Energy Foundation Matching Gifts program. The program matches eligible employee and retiree gifts, dollar for dollar, up to $5,000.
Duke Energy engages in corporate-wide campaigns to contribute to the United Way and the arts each year. Also, employees are encouraged to support relief efforts for various natural disasters and other extraordinary events.
Support Education
In addition to supporting community organizations, the company offers 15 scholarships to graduating high school seniors who are the dependents of Duke Energy employees or retirees.
Duke Energy’s Minority Professional Association Scholarship Program awarded $18,000 to qualified candidates in 2005. The Duke Foundation awarded 20 scholarships totaling $34,500 for students in computer engineering and related fields attending Johnson C. Smith University, a leading African-American university in Charlotte, North Carolina. These scholarships represent Duke Energy’s commitment to education, bettering the lives of our employees, and the communities in which we operate.
Prairie View A&M University is the second oldest institution of higher education in Texas serving a diverse ethnic and socioeconomic population. Duke Energy has enjoyed a partnership with the University for five years supporting scholarship programs in the College of Engineering and College of Business. In addition, Duke Energy in collaboration with the Texas Foundation for the Arts sponsored a documentary on the history of Prairie View. Duke Energy is proud of our employees recruited from the University.
In Canada, Union Gas, Duke Energy Gas Transmission’s Local Distribution Company, and Ontario’s Northern Development and Mines Ministry announced a new partnership Spearheaded by Union Gas that will invest $8.5 million to expand trades programs and develop new infrastructure at six post-secondary institutions in Northern Ontario.
This year Union Gas donated $10,000 to Laurentian University’s Northern Ontario School of Medicine to establish an Aboriginal Bursary Endowment for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
Embrace Diversity
Duke Energy’s Diversity team works to ensure we support community organizations that promote career development to make certain that we maintain a diverse, competitive workforce.