CenterPoint Energy Awards Grants To Communities For Safety Initiatives

This year, CenterPoint Energy’s Community Safety Grant program awarded approximately 130 grants totaling more than $260,000 in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas to fund safety-related equipment and projects in local communities.

“Safety is a core value of CenterPoint Energy’s,” said Alicia Dixon, Director of Community Relations for CenterPoint Energy. “Our Community Partnership Grant program allows us to stay connected to emergency officials, first responders and others in the communities we serve to support our customers’ safety.”

Recipients were determined based on the content of their applications. Participants were required to outline a safety-related problem, issue or need in the community and how a Community Safety Grant would help create a sustainable solution. Leveraging the chosen organization’s local funds, the CenterPoint Energy grant is a matching contribution and cannot be more than 50% of the cost of the project. The program awards grants of up to $2,500.

Since 2003, through its Community Safety Grant program, CenterPoint Energy has funded more than 1,400 safety-related projects and contributed more than $2.7 million in donations to communities for safety initiatives.

To see what CenterPoint Energy is doing in the community, please visit CenterPointEnergy.com/Community.