At EPCOR, we're proud of the active community participation of our employees. Some donate their time as coaches, volunteers and board members, some support community fundraising initiatives, and others lend their skills and talent to local community organizations. Our employees are committed to helping make their local communities safer, stronger, and better places to live and work.
Through the committed efforts of our employees, EPCOR supports an array of broad-reaching community projects that touch the lives of many.
Helping Hands Grant Program
EPCOR's employee volunteer program recognizes the time, talents and commitment of our employees to their communities. In recognition of their volunteer time, EPCOR donates to a variety of community service organizations that are important to our employees. Some of the community service organizations that have benefited from EPCOR's Helping Hands grants are:
- Arts on the Ave Edmonton Society
- B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Big Brothers & Big Sisters Society of Edmonton & Area
- Calgary Chinooks Soccer Club
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- CASDDA Canadian Search & Disaster Dogs Association
- Children's Care Centre Society of Rural Strathcona
- Cross Country Ski Runners of the Canadian Rockies
- Edmonton Chinese Bilingual Education Association
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Port Hardy Volunteer Fire Department
- Scouts Canada
- Sherwood Park Wolverines Football Club
- Special Olympics Alberta Association
- St. Albert Minor Hockey Association
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation
- Strathmore & District Christmas Hamper Society
- Sturgeon Indoor Soccer Association
- The Army Cadet League of Canada
- The First Alberta Campus Radio Association
- Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton
Blood Donor Challenge
EPCOR participates the annual Blood Donor Challenge as part of Corporate Challenge. In 2011 EPCOR once again took first place with 264 employees giving blood 22 of whom were first-time donors. Behind this continued success is a team of EPCOR employee volunteers who organized, coordinated and motivated employees while raising awareness for the ongoing need to donate.
An EPCOR Holiday Tradition
Each holiday season, EPCOR crews decorate a huge Christmas tree in Edmonton’s Churchill Square. Linemen pass upwards of 8,000 LED lights and dozens of power lines from one bucket truck to the next, carefully tie-wrapping everything in place. Safety is always of the utmost concern for the crews working at great heights with electric lights and equipment. The job is set up like any other: safe work plans are drafted and communicated before hand, the area is supervised and cordoned off and the personnel wear their personal protection equipment.