Making Things Brighter
2010 Low Income Initiative Progress Report
Making Things Brighter
Advocacy Awards Honor Devotion to Improving Lives of Entergy's Customers.
Community service offers little opportunity for glamour, prestige and material things. But the finer things in life-like creating a better quality of live for impoverished elderly retirees, working poor families and disadvantaged kids—are plentiful for advocates who dedicate themselves to making a difference. Low-income customer advocates and volunteers work every day to alleviate the struggle impoverished and working-poor people experience, often with little if any recognition.
Since 2002, Entergy has been acknowledging the contributions of these community change-makers who share the company's advocacy goals with a Making Things Brighter Award. Each year, the company honors individuals and organizations with a small stipend so they may continue the work in which we all benefit. Serving poor families and neighbors and helping them get the resources they need takes a network of professionals devoting their time, talents, funding and faith to improving the communities of which they are a part.
Honorees
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Dustin McDaniel,
Arkansas Attorney General
Home Rehabilitators
Keith Jackson,
Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids (P.A.R.K.)
Rev. Nestor Rivera,
First Latin American Baptist Church
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Rev. Ross Raymond,
McGhee First Presbyterian Church
Rev. Stephen Copley
Robin Freeman,
Central Arkansas Development Council
Rose Adams & Russell Hooks,
Arkansas Community Action Agencies Association
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Dorothy Oliver,
LaSalle Community Action
Dr. Clara Thibodeaux Byes,
Gretna Community Center
Lisa Lewis,
Ouachita Community Action Agency
Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships (LACAP)
Lydia Taylor,
Operation HOPE |
Michelle Guillory,
Louisiana Governor's Office of Elderly Affairs
Norma Cole,
Calcasieu Community Action
Pastor Charles Johnson,
Waymaker's Ministries
Westlake Beta Club |
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Antoinette Montgomery,
Community Service Director
Central Mississippi Inc.
Jean-Marie Hill,
Warren Washington Issaquena Sharkey Community Action
Agency Inc. ( WWISCAA)
Jim Sizemore,
Executive Director
Samaritans Horn Lake, MS
Kathy Heidorn,
Internal Revenue Service |
Kenn Cockrell,
Hinds County Human Resource Agency
Lolita Ross,
former MACCA Executive Director
Mississippi Individual Development Account Partnership (MIDAP)
Sollie Norwood,
Mississippi Department of Human Services |
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Cyndi Nguyen,
Vietnamese Initiative in Economic Training (VIET)
Dr. Lindsey Moore &ione Johnson,
Dr. Martin Luther King Elementary Charter School for Science and Technology
Father Vien Nguyen,
Mary Queen of Vietnam Church
Howard L. Rodgers III,
New Orleans Council on Aging |
Sister Vera Butler,
Lantern Light
The Fellowship Foundation
The Sisters of the Holy Family |
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Antoinette Hardy,
Beaumont Community Housing Development Organization
Assistance League of Montgomery County
Beaumont Community Housing Development Organization
Community Care Prayer Outreach
Connie Gray,
Programs for Human Services
Corrigan Christian Resource Center
Greater East Texas Community Action Program
Jesse Tree,
Bolivar Peninsula Branch
Jody Hopkins,
The Community Clinic
Liberty County Indigent Health Care
Montgomery County Emergency Assistance |
Montgomery County Interfaith Hospitality Network
Montgomery County United Way
Orange County Community Partners
Southeast Texas Family Resource Center
Southeast Texas Food Bank
Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center
St. Vincent de Paul
Winnie
Tamina Community Center
The Community Organization for Missionary Endeavors; H.O.P.E. - Helping Our People Excel
The Salvation Army
Beaumont
The Salvation Army
Port Arthur |
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