Contributing to Positive Social Change
As an anchor institution in our communities, we want to have the biggest positive social impact possible. To bring this commitment to life, we’ve created and are initiating a social impact strategy focused on addressing immediate needs and the long-term well-being of our employees, customers and communities – all while helping to create a healthier and more sustainable planet.
We’re bringing our corporate citizenship commitments to the communities we serve by:
- Creating opportunities for our employees to grow and thrive, to make meaningful change in their own communities and to build a workplace committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Ensuring our services empower our customers to reduce their own environmental footprints through new energy products, offerings and capabilities while helping them reduce their energy costs over the long term. This includes:
- Access to rebates on more efficient appliances.
- Access to reduced costs on insulation to help improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
- Free energy audits identify the best opportunities to improve energy efficiency.
- Providing customers with effective emergency response during power outages (including digital updates regarding outages across our service areas in addition to fast response by our crews to restore power).
- Providing much-needed resources to help our customers in need during difficult times (such as access to financial assistance to reduce energy costs).
- Helping our communities thrive by supporting initiatives through the Avangrid Foundation that increase access to education and job training, provide support for critical services like shelter and food security, provide support for the arts, work to protect biodiversity, address climate impacts and more.
- Connecting with our communities through employee volunteerism, stakeholder engagement and creating more opportunities for suppliers from diverse backgrounds.
