Meeting the challenge and calls for social justice – Over the last three years, the Georgia Power Foundation has dedicated over 60% of its funding to support nonprofits serving underserved communities and populations across Georgia, as well as funding activities to move communities towards racial equity and social justice.
Georgia Power and the Georgia Power Foundation supported over 1,000 nonprofits and community organizations and provided $20 million in total giving in 2020. The 2020 report reflects Georgia Power's giving pillars of empowering Education, empowering Environment and empowering Communities through the theme " Here for Georgia: Meeting Challenges Together." Last year, the company and the Foundation also took a closer look at helping to meet the challenges faced in the wake of calls for racial equity and social justice in the community and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as supporting specific initiatives that make an impact on the state's workforce, teachers and Georgia's vast waterways. We have a longstanding legacy of citizenship in the state, so we know that to make a lasting change we have to be unwavering in our commitment to help our communities." "Whether it was through financial support, providing valuable resources or volunteering our time, we focused on investing in pandemic relief as well as education, racial equity, social justice and environmental efforts among others – and we're continuing to focus on our communities this year too.
At Georgia Power, we knew it was more important than ever to be present in our communities, working together to help meet the unique challenges we all faced," said Mike Anderson, senior vice president of Georgia Power and president and CEO of the Georgia Power Foundation. "Last year challenged all of us as a country and as individuals in ways we never could have imagined.
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