Life at GE Plastics

Community service reinvigorates us. It keeps us in touch with our neighbors and customers, and provides a way for us to come together as friends united in a common cause outside the office.

And it's a heckuva lot of fun, too.

While GE Plastics employees serve a variety of causes in their spare time, we're also big participants in The Elfun Society.

Since 1911, The Elfun Society has been a global organization of GE employees and retirees committed to improving our communities, our company, and our lives through volunteerism, leadership, and camaraderie. It's another GE original.

Around the world, Elfun members are making a difference in big and small ways. Here's some recent events:

In Massachusetts:
For the sixth consecutive year, GE employees, retirees, family members, friends and contractors - a total of 200 people - spent a full day renovating a local non-profit facility. This year, the choice was Girl's Inc. summer camp. The project, sponsored by the GE Elfun Society, renovated 12 cabins, landscaped the property, and built four outdoor storage buildings and 16 picnic tables for the campers.

In The Netherlands:
53 GE volunteers participated in a project at the Refugee Center in Ossendrecht, The Netherlands, where employees spent nearly 400 hours refurbishing the day care center, building a youth center, building 15 benches and improving the central recreational area. This was the largest project ever undertaken in the Bergen op Zoom area.

In New York:
Members of the Elfun Society participated in a career fair for students of the Waterford-Halfmoon Junior/Senior High School. More than 200 students in grades 7-9 rotated through two dozen "stations," where representatives of area companies described careers in six general fields: Business, Health, Engineering Technology, Human & Public Services, Natural & Agricultural Sciences and Arts & Humanities.

In Detroit:
Together, the Elfun society and the GE Plastics African American Forum are in the process of adopting the Jefferson Whittier Middle School located in Pontiac, Michigan. The school is in an underserved area of Greater Metro Detroit with a majority of African American students.