Corporate Citizenship Support

 

Below are some of the programs and partnerships we support throughout our territories.
 
Education and Skills

One of the leading national youth service corps organizations, City Year, has launched a new initiative, Whole School Whole Child (WSWC), in response to the alarmingly high dropout rates across the country. National Grid has committed to a multi-year partnership as the Northeast regional sponsor of their WSWC program. WSWC will aim to improve participating targeted schools' attendance, behavior and course performance in City Year sites located in Boston, New Hampshire, New York City and Rhode Island. Please take a look at the City Year video* to learn more.

Recently recognized as a national best practice by the Department of Labor, the Energy Utility Technology (EUT) Training Program is a workforce training program that involves a partnership between National Grid and several community colleges in Massachusetts. Students take classes in computer applications, technical math, industrial safety and more as part of a two-semester, college-credit program designed by National Grid to help them earn an EUT Certificate. The program includes a 10-week internship at National Grid’s training facility in Millbury, Massachusetts.  National Grid has already offered employment to several recent graduates and will continue to interview graduates for jobs. This is an outstanding example of National Grid partnering with the community to enhance the education of our young people.

National Grid has established an endowment fund at Clarkson University in upstate New York to assist up to eight summer research opportunities each year in the area of sustainable energy. In addition, this funding will support the Clarkson Honors Program which is built upon current and emerging problems in science, technology and society. The honors program offers unique academic opportunities and challenges for Clarkson's most promising students.

National Grid and the College of Staten Island/CUNY teamed up to launch an Engineering Workshop Series program designed to inform and encourage underserved, at-risk high school students about engineering career paths. Through this program, high school students work on exciting engineering projects involving robots and engineering microcontrollers.

National Grid’s commitment to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy directly supports the organization’s Green and Grow initiative, a youth workforce development program serving young people, ages 16–20, from low income and immigrant families in Boston.

Energy and Environment 

National Grid is a proud sponsor of the Schenectady Museum’s "Wind and Solar Power Exhibit," an interactive experience that educates the community about solar and wind power and provides a platform to examine issues associated with the use of renewable energy. 

National Grid and the Green Education Foundation are working together to empower children to become environmental stewards. Over 30,000 children from across National Grid’s United States service territory participated in GEF’s National Green Week.

Recently, National Grid partnered with the Baltimore Woods Nature Center (Syracuse, NY) in support of their Nature in the City program. This program introduces local public school students in grades K–6 to science through classroom and green space lessons. Lessons explore the ways people interact with the urban environment, including energy use, the scale of cities against the forces of nature, geography of waterways and cities, urban wildlife, water quality, insects and more. Interactive, inquiry-based lessons are hands-on and adhere to Syracuse curricula and NYS science learning standards.

The partnership with the New England Aquarium initiated several signature environmental education programs which include the Free-to-Learn program (providing free aquarium admission to 3,500 children and their teachers from low income communities); the Teen Ocean Summit (a one-day symposium for students and their teachers from Massachusetts high schools to discuss and debate climate change); and the Teacher Resource Center. 

National Grid’s continued partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod helps to bring affordable housing to low income families across Cape Cod.  Homes are built to achieve the standard of a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification.

National Grid is sensitive to the needs of households who are struggling to pay their energy bills and do not qualify for federal or state energy funds. In Massachusetts and Rhode Island, National Grid sponsored The Good Neighbor Energy Fund administered by the Salvation Army. In New Hampshire, National Grid sponsored the fuel assistance program Neighbor Helping Neighbor and, in New York, National Grid worked with the American Red Cross to help those in need through the Care and Share Energy Fund.  We are proud that our partnership with these fine organizations provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of households in need. We also encourage employees and customers to contribute to the energy assistance funds in their state.

Community Investment

We are very proud to be a major supporter of the United Way across our U.S. footprint.  Our significant investment with this critical organization continues to make a positive impact across the cities and towns where we live and work. Last year, National Grid along with its 17,000 United States employees contributed over $3 million to the United Way campaign.

Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.  Highlights of our involvement over the past year include volunteer recruitment sessions, a bowl-a-thon that raised more than $70,000, as well as two co-hosted leadership conferences for college bound high school students.
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