Volunteerism
Guidelines for Community Connectors Volunteer Service
Community Connectors can earn grants through volunteer service with non-profit
organizations in communities where Entergy has customers or employees.
Organizations should be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as tax
exempt under code 501(c)(3) and approved by Entergy's Corporate Contributions
department. To have an organization approved, simply download the Non-Profit
Organizations
Form or request it by phone (504-576-6980). The form should be filled out
by the organization in question and returned to the Corporate Contributions
department (address is on the form).
Volunteer service that qualifies for Contributions for Connectors grants:
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Time spent working on programs/activities aligned with Corporate
Contributions' program areas (i.e., education & literacy, community
improvement & enrichment, healthy families, arts & culture, and environmental
improvement).
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Volunteer service that does not qualify for Contributions for Connectors
grants:
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Time spent working with any organization or program determined by Entergy as
discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital
status, sexual orientation, or national origin
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Time spent working with political candidates or groups
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Activities whose main purpose is promotion or support of a religion, faith,
denomination or religious institution
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Time spent sleeping during any overnight volunteer activity
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Hobbies
For further clarification, see examples below:
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Type of Volunteer Service
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Counts
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Doesn't Count
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Scout Activities*
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Up to 12 hours per day Examples: Serving as a scout leader at meetings,
camping trips, etc.
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Anything beyond 12 hours within a 24-hour period Examples:
Time spent
sleeping during a camping outing
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Religious
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Activities that benefit members of the community at large, regardless of their
religion, faith, denomination or institutional affiliation
Examples:
Big
Brother/Big Sister programs
Program in which volunteers provide meals
or runs errands for shut-ins
Program that provides clothing for the
needy
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Activities whose main purpose is promotion or support of a religion, faith,
denomination or religious institution Examples: Sunday School
Bible
Study
Communion
Singing in or directing a religious choir
Nursery
duty during religious services
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Educational
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Activities whose main purpose is promotion or support of a religion, faith,
denomination or religious institution Examples: Sunday School
Bible
Study
Communion
Singing in or directing a religious choir
Nursery
duty during religious services
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Examples: Fundraising for the benefit of your own child's tuition or required
tithe
School fairs at which you are attending merely as your child's
guest
Substitute teaching
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Fundraising
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Time spent organizing a fundraiser Examples: Committee meetings during which a
walk/run, car wash or bake sale is planned
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Time spent performing a fundraising activity Examples: Walking/running in a
walk/run fundraiser
Washing cars at a car wash
Selling baked
goods at a bake sale
Baking goods for a bake sale
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Sports Activities
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Examples: Coaching a little league team of which your child happens to be a
member
Teaching/coaching an exercise/sports activity for people who
are physically challenged
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Examples: Attending your child's little league practice or game as a spectator
Playing
in a golf tournament
Teaching/coaching an adult exercise
class/sporting activity
Fishing
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* Time spent working with local scout troops counts toward
Contributions for Connectors grants. However, grants are given only to
501(c)(3) agencies. Scout troops are not 501(c)(3) organizations. Thus,
they cannot be designated as grant recipients. (At the local level scouting
councils hold 501(c)(3) status.) So someone volunteering with a scout troop
should designate either the local council or the troop's 501(c)(3) sponsoring
organization as the grant recipient – or choose an entirely different
organization as the grant recipient.
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