PG&E Offering More Than 150 College Scholarships Totaling Nearly $500,000
January 02 2020 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that
scholarship applications are now being accepted for college-bound
high schoolers as well as current college and continuing education
students living in Northern and Central California.
More than 150 awards totaling nearly $500,000 are being made
available through PG&E scholarships, which includes the
employee resource group (ERG), engineering network group (ENG) and
Better Together STEM scholarship programs.
PG&E scholarships information, including criteria and
applications, is available on PG&E’s website. To be considered
for a scholarship, all applications must be submitted by Feb. 7,
2020.
“Helping students in our communities attend college and achieve
their goals is a big step toward improving lives. These
individuals, many of whom are the first in their families to attend
college, will be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow. We’re
proud to invest in these promising young people,” said Mary King,
PG&E vice president of human resources and chief diversity
officer.
PG&E scholarships are awarded annually to help offset the
cost of higher education. ERG scholarship winners will receive
awards ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 for exemplary scholastic
achievement and community leadership. Better Together STEM
Scholarship recipients will receive a one-time scholarship of
$1,000 to $10,000 to assist in their pursuit of higher education in
engineering, computer science, cybersecurity or environmental
sciences.
Since 1989, PG&E’s ERGs and ENGs have awarded more than $4.5
million in scholarships to thousands of recipients. The funds are
raised totally through employee donations, employee fundraising
events and Campaign for the Community, the company’s employee
giving program.
Since 2012, PG&E’s Better Together STEM scholarship program
has given nearly $3.6 million to accomplished students based on a
combined demonstration of community leadership, personal triumph,
financial need and academic achievement.
Funds for Better Together STEM scholarships come from the
PG&E Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting charities
that address critical social, educational and environmental
challenges in the company’s service area. These scholarships are
supported by PG&E shareholders.
More than 5,000 PG&E employees belong to the ERGs and ENGs.
Each group helps further the company’s commitment to serving its
communities and growing employee engagement.
PG&E’s ERG and ENG scholarships are available through these
12 groups:
- Access Network (individuals with disabilities)
- Asian
- Black
- Latino
- Legacy (tenured employees)
- National Society of Black Engineers (STEM career
employees)
- NuEnergy (new employees)
- PrideNetwork (LGBT employees)
- Samahan (Filipino)
- Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (STEM career
employees)
- Veterans
- Women’s Network
In addition to the PG&E scholarships, the Pacific Service
Employees Association (PSEA), a non-profit mutual benefit
organization serving PG&E employees and retirees, also provides
scholarships for dependents of company employees.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 16 million people in
Northern and Central California. For more information, visit
www.pge.com/ and http://www.pge.com/news.
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