Community Involvement

Working at Alliant Energy provides benefits that carry beyond the end of the workday. Our Midwestern values mean people are important to us – and we demonstrate that commitment every day by supporting the families and communities we’re privileged to serve.

Alliant Energy Foundation

Since 1990, the Alliant Energy Foundation and its predecessor organizations have given more than $10 million to support organizations and initiatives that make a positive difference in people's lives.

The Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve by supporting health and human services programs, education endeavors, cultural initiatives and environmental efforts.

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Volunteer Program

Throughout the year, you'll find Alliant Energy employees and retirees volunteering their time and talents in their local school, churches and community groups.

Alliant Energy's “Empowering Our Communities” program recognizes and supports these dedicated volunteers by providing $100 grants to non-profit organizations in the volunteer's name.

During 2004, more than 300 employees and retirees took advantage of the program by tracking a total of nearly 45,000 volunteer hours. The Alliant Energy Foundation directed more than $60,000 in their names to hundreds of non-profit organizations.

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Matching Gifts

In addition to the Empowering Our Communities program, the Alliant Energy Foundation also offers employees and retirees a Matching Gifts Program, providing dollar-for-dollar matches for donations to qualifying non-profit associations.

During 2004, the Foundation matched gifts from more than 1,400 eligible participants. The total awarded of nearly $575,000 reflected gifts to a variety of organizations and institutions across the country.

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Stewards of Nature

When Alliant Energy employees were looking for ways to connect with others concerned with environmental preservation, they joined forces to establish the Stewards of Nature program in 1992.

Stewards of Nature activities help stabilize ecosystems, promote a greater understanding of the natural world through field trips and seminars, and strengthen Alliant Energy's company-wide environmental ethic.

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Tree planting programs

Over the past 14 years, Alliant Energy's Branching Out and Operation ReLeaf tree planting programs have contributed more than 1.2 million trees and seedlings to communities, schools and non-profit organizations throughout our four-state utility service territory.

Learn more about our tree-planting programs