NIPSCO and the NiSource Charitable Foundation donated over $2.4 million to more than 250 nonprofits last year, the Merrillville-based utility said. Its newly-released 2023 Corporate Citizenship Report also shows NIPSCO employees volunteered over 2,700 service hours to local organizations. As part of its Charity of Choice program, for instance, NIPSCO says its employees volunteered 800 service hours to organizations across northern Indiana including locally Humane Indiana, Food Bank of Northwest Indiana, Inc., and Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana.
In NIPSCO’s Hope for the Holidays Campaign, now in its 11th year, the utility company said more than $150,000 was donated to organizations throughout northern Indiana such as Make a Kid Smile of Northwest Indiana and the Salvation Army of Northwest Indiana, and an employee-driven toy drive resulted in more than 1,000 toys donated to eight Toys for Tots organizations across the utility company’s service area.
For the past eight years, NIPSCO has helped fund environmental projects and programs through its Environmental Action Grant. To date, NIPSCO has helped 124 projects come to fruition across northern Indiana. The 15 projects funded in 2023 by the NiSource Charitable Foundation provided funds to projects focused on Monarch butterflies, habitat restoration, and more. Many funded projects and programs included a significant volunteer and community engagement component, encouraging community members to give back through environmental stewardship projects.
In its sixth year, NIPSCO’s Public Safety Education and Training Action Grant provided funding to 16 local nonprofit organizations and first responders with their public safety education and training across northern Indiana. Some of the projects included distribution of carbon monoxide detectors to residents, carbon monoxide educational training and lithium-ion battery response training. To view the report and learn more, visit NIPSCO.COM/GivesBack .
