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:

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).
Volunteer service that does not qualify for Contributions for Connectors grants:
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
Time spent working with political candidates or groups
Activities whose main purpose is promotion or support of a religion, faith, denomination or religious institution
Time spent sleeping during any overnight volunteer activity
Hobbies

For further clarification, see examples below:

Type of Volunteer Service	Counts	Doesn't Count
Scout Activities*	Up to 12 hours per day Examples: Serving as a scout leader at meetings, camping trips, etc.	Anything beyond 12 hours within a 24-hour period Examples: Time spent sleeping during a camping outing
Religious	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	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
Educational	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	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
Fundraising	Time spent organizing a fundraiser Examples: Committee meetings during which a walk/run, car wash or bake sale is planned	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
Sports Activities	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	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

* 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.