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TECO brings “Backpacks of Hope” to Metropolitan Ministries

Just in time for the new school year, hope is in the syllabus for students who will receive donated school supplies from Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas team members through Metropolitan Ministries. The utility’s Credit & Collections team solicited donations from throughout the company for the Backpacks of Hope program, which helps prepare disadvantaged students for school. Binders, pencils, paper, you name it – including backpacks, of course – will…

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New location, same great community spirit at TECO’s annual Big Bend Golf Tournament

TECO team members and contractors again relished the opportunity to putt their hearts into helping the community at the 19th annual – and biggest-ever – Big Bend Golf Tournament. And while 200-plus people enjoyed the competition on the course, you might say the true winners were the local organizations that benefitted from the sizable donations the tournament collected. For those keeping track, here’s the scorecard: $30,000 in donations to Mary…

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Big effort, bigger rewards: TECO team members help build a family a home

When the opportunity came up to work with Habitat for Humanity, this Tampa Electric team had an ideal foundation to work from: their great experience the year before. For the second year, a group of TECO team members constructed the frame of a new home in Winter Haven. Over the course of a few hours on May 28, they built and erected the structure that will form the skeleton of…

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Team brings hard work to Mary & Martha House

Sometimes a new year means a new start for people in tough spots; sometimes it takes a new home, even one that’s temporary. For the abused and homeless women and children who count on the Mary & Martha House on the path to more stable lives, their stay will be a little brighter in 2015 thanks to new paint applied by Tampa Electric team members. The team, with Tampa Electric’s South Hillsborough Operations,…

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TECO team members raise barns and potential for farm that helps the disabled

With a unique opportunity to help the community, TECO team members in the company’s Emerging Leaders and Manager’s Edge programs built bonds with each other while building – among other things – barns. The story started about a year ago, when Barbara Leasure, administrator of Training & Development, reached out to Odessa, Fla.-based Quantum Leap Farm to see how TECO could help the farm in its mission to use horses as therapy…

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