IBEW completes five-year, $100,000 pledge to Tampa General Burn Center

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
IBEW completes five-year pledge to Tampa General Burn Center
Tampa Bay Business Journal

The local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers along with Tampa donated a total of $40,000 to Tampa General Hospital’s Regional Burn Center.The IBEW presented a check for $25,000 that was raised at the union’s annual golf tournament earlier this year. It represents the last of five installments in a five-year pledge to donate $100,000 to the Foundation’s capital campaign to help fund TGH’s new Emergency & Trauma Center.

Tampa Electric and TECO (NYSE:TE) followed with a matching contribution of $25,000.

Presentations were made at a gathering at which burn victim Joe Versaggi spoke.