More than $430,000 to benefit Wyoming residents in need

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — The PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning, the charitable arm of Pacific Power, contributed more than $171,000 this spring to the Sweetwater County United Way. The funding matches PacifiCorp employee donations from the company’s 2005 employee giving campaign and will be used to assist residents in Sweetwater, Lincoln and Uinta Counties.

Together with matching funds from the PacifiCorp Foundation, PacifiCorp employees at the Jim Bridger Power Plant, near Rock Springs; Naughton Power Plant, near Kemmerer; the Rock Springs Service Center and Bridger Mining Company employees at the Jim Bridger Mine, contributed a total of $342,000 to the Sweetwater County United Way. This funding makes up more than three-fourths of the $436,000 total contributed by PacifiCorp employees and the PacifiCorp Foundation to United Way organizations statewide.

Amanda Rosenberg, executive director of the Sweetwater County United Way, said that nearly 25 percent of the funds raised through United Way’s overall campaign were donated by the PacifiCorp Foundation and employees of the Jim Bridger and Naughton power plants, district offices and Bridger Coal, including the Utility Workers Local 127, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 57 and Western Energy Workers Local 1978.
 
“The right combination of management and labor support, incentives and creative employee rallies continue to result in awesome growth in giving,” said Rosenberg. “This investment in the families and children in Southwest Wyoming, through the United Way, will help them get through some uniquely trying times.”
 
Rosenberg noted that the United Way Excellence Award, based on the highest overall, combined corporate and employee per-capita giving, was presented to PacifiCorp and the employees of the Jim Bridger Power Plant and Utility Workers Local 127 at the United Way’s Awards and Recognition Event held earlier this year.

“Our employees always have been very generous in giving to United Way, and last year was no exception,” said Craig Nelson, Pacific Power’s regional community manager. “The PacifiCorp Foundation’s matching contribution doubles the amount of service the Sweetwater County United Way will be able to provide to residents in Sweetwater, Lincoln and Uinta Counties as a result of PacifiCorp employee donations.”

The PacifiCorp Foundation awarded an additional $13,500 to Wyoming organizations in March for community programs and projects. For more information about the PacifiCorp Foundation, visit www.pacificorpfoundation.org . 

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