Over sixty nonprofit groups have been chosen to receive $1.03 million in grants given by the Entergy Charitable Foundation in the first of three planned award cycles for 2012.
The foundation has a goal of supporting initiatives that help create and sustain thriving communities, with a special focus on low-income initiatives as well as educational and literacy programs and efforts to protect the environment.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.