The goal of the Entergy Charitable Foundation (ECF) is to support initiatives that help create and sustain thriving communities. Grant types fall under three categories: Foundation Grants, Micro Grants, and Open Grants.
Foundation Grants: The focus areas for foundation funding are education/workforce development, poverty solutions and environmental programs.
- Education/Workforce Development: Entergy is committed to investing in the future of the communities we serve through our support for education. Education enables individuals to achieve their fullest potential and contribute positively to society. An educated, skilled, and diverse workforce is critical to Entergy's long term success and the health and viability of communities. Entergy strives to ensure that every child has access to a quality education and the skills to be successful in life.
- Poverty Solutions: Entergy's focus on poverty solutions is rooted in the economic reality of the region we serve. Our service territory encompasses areas some of the highest poverty states in the nation. The Entergy Charitable Foundation seeks to support programs that provide innovative and measurable poverty solutions and tools that help break the bonds of intergenerational poverty.
- Environmental Programs: Entergy is nationally recognized as an environmentally responsible utility. Entergy is committed to working with nonprofit organizations and community partners to protect, conserve and restore the natural beauty and biodiversity of regions that we serve.
Micro Grants: Through Entergy's Micro Grants Program requests for for funding are accepted in all program areas: arts and culture; community improvement/enrichment; economic development, education/literacy, environment and healthy families.
Open Grants: Entergy's Open Grants Program focuses on improving communities as a whole. They look for giving opportunities in the areas of arts and culture, community improvement/enrichment, the environment and healthy families.
- Arts and Culture: The arts are expressions of ourselves – our heritage, feelings and ideas. To cultivate that, we support a diverse range of locally based visual arts, theater, dance and music institutions. Our long-term goal is to increase the access to contemporary art for a wider public, including children and the financially disadvantaged.
- Community Improvement/Enrichment: Entergy supports community-based projects that focus community enrichment and improvement. A few examples include civic affairs, blighted housing improvements, and neighborhood safety. By giving to communities in this way, we actually help them become more self-sufficient.
- Healthy Families: Children need a good start to grow into healthy, well-adjusted adults. With that in mind, we give to programs that have a direct impact on children educationally and emotionally. We're also interested in family programs, like those that better prepare parents to balance the demands of work and home.
In considering requests for grants, priority is placed on programs in locations where Entergy has customers and/or employees. Therefore, projects that serve populations in the counties or parishes listed at: https://www.entergy.com/our_community/entergy_areas/ will receive preferential consideration.