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Corporations Hewitt Associates and ComEd Care About Children
In Need, Partner with Glenwood School for Boys and Girls to
Build a New Playground in Just One Day!
Glenwood, IL – May 1, 2008 - Glenwood School for Boys
and Girls successfully completed Project One Day,
One Playground on April 30th, by building a
new playground for disadvantaged kids with the help of major
corporate funders ComEd and Hewitt Associates. The new playground
will provide more than 160 children at Glenwood with a fun
place to play.
ComEd and Hewitt Associates each brought 100 employees to
assemble vibrant orange, blue and yellow playground equipment,
picnic tables and benches, and trashcan holders on Glenwood’s
campus. Students and volunteers also painted a world map and
new lines on two basketball courts. The playground equipment
includes a spiral slide, swings, monorail, rock climbing wall
and tire swing. The playground design was based on drawings
Glenwood students provided during a Design Day event in March.
At the opening ceremony, Glenwood’s President and CEO,
Sam Banks, expressed his gratitude to the hundreds of community-minded
people who spent their day building a playground for disadvantaged
kids. “I want to especially thank the volunteers who
could’ve devoted their time anywhere else, but chose
to help Glenwood’s kids by building this playground,”
Banks said.
Hewitt Associates Account Executive and Glenwood Board Member,
David Brost, said it was great to see so many smiling faces,
eager to get started on a playground for very deserving children.
“We understand the significance of play in a child’s
well-rounded development. It is important for children to
have a safe play space where they can exercise, increase confidence,
build cognitive skills and, learn positive social skills.
It’s also important for them to have a place where they
can just be kids,” Brost said.
During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, ComEd’s Vice President
of Customer Care and Glenwood Trustee, Phyllis Batson spoke.
She shared the company’s highest priorities for giving
and volunteerism, which include enhancing educational opportunities
and improving the quality of life for those in ComEd’s
service areas. Batson said, “Today’s effort to
construct a playground is more than just building a magical
place for boys and girls, but also planting a foundation for
the fundamental characteristics of teamwork, sharing, and
learning from one another.”
The Glenwood student body joined President Sam Banks in front
of the new playground for the ribbon cutting. Glenwood’s
children also created special gifts as a thank you for each
volunteer.
Others in attendance during the ribbon-cutting ceremony included
Glenwood staff, Glenwood Trustee, Craig Stern; Hewitt Associates
Global Leader for Corporate Social Responsibility, Rosemary
Keefe; Harvey Mayor Eric J. Kellogg and School District 152
Board President Tyrone Rogers.
The playground is the second that Glenwood, Hewitt Associates
and KaBOOM! have built together. In 2008, Hewitt built a playground
on Glenwood’s campus in St. Charles, IL. KaBOOM! is
a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing communities
together to build playgrounds across America.
Glenwood School for Boys and
Girls
Glenwood is the only community supported non-profit organization
in the Midwest that offers disadvantaged children a residential,
education and life-skills program to help them overcome difficult
family and community circumstances and achieve a better life
and future. With campuses in Glenwood, Illinois and St. Charles,
Illinois, Glenwood serves approximately 280 at-risk children,
ages 7 to 17, whose lives and futures have been threatened
by issues such as loss of a parent due to death, divorce,
or substance abuse, along with poverty, gangs and violence.
The children Glenwood serves come from more than 60 communities
in the Chicagoland and Fox Valley areas. For more information
about Glenwood, please visit www.glenwoodschool.org
ComEd
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), one of the nation’s
largest electric utilities with approximately 5.4 million
customers. ComEd provides service to approximately 3.8 million
customers across Northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s
population. For more information, please visit www.exeloncorp.com
Hewitt Associates
For more than 65 years, Hewitt Associates (NYSE: HEW) has
provided clients with best-in-class human resources consulting
and outsourcing services. Hewitt consults with more than 3,000
large and mid-size companies around the globe to develop and
implement HR business strategies covering retirement, financial
and health management; compensation and total rewards; and
performance, talent and change management. As a market leader
in benefits administration, Hewitt delivers health care and
retirement programs to millions of participants and retirees,
on behalf of more than 300 organizations worldwide. In addition,
more than 30 clients rely on Hewitt to provide a broader range
of human resources business process outsourcing services to
nearly a million client employees. Located in 33 countries,
Hewitt employs approximately 23,000 associates. For more information,
please visit www.hewitt.com
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Glenwood School for Boys and Girls successfully completed
Project One Day, One Playground
- The Tmes, Friday, May 9, 2008
Community Sponsors: ComEd, Hewitt Associates and KaBoom!
 
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