We believe food and housing are basic needs, just like energy.
In this category, we support programs that help families and individuals who are fighting food insecurity or in need of housing assistance.
What is hunger and housing?
Why do we support hunger and housing programs?
Alliant Energy and the Alliant Energy Foundation are dedicated to six core values that guide everything we do.
We support programs that address today’s urgent need for food and housing, as well as programs that provide long-term help, because we want to prevent families from ever having to choose between paying for essentials like energy, rent, or groceries.
This goal is in line with our core values to do the right thing, care for others, and make things better.
Centerville Food Pantry Volunteering
Working Together to Fight Hunger in Our Communities
What are we doing in this focus area?
We partner with other businesses and organizations to raise funds to fight hunger through our annual Drive Out Hunger event. Through this effort we’ve been able provide over 20 million meals in the past 17 years.
Below are some of our annual investments that impact the hunger and housing focus area. Many of these investments also offer our employees an opportunity to give back and engage in the communities we serve.
Recent hunger and housing initiatives
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In 2022, the Foundation awarded an Impact Grant to Couleecap, Inc. to support new affordable housing options in the Coulee region of Wisconsin. -
Every year, the Foundation sponsors Drive Out Hunger, a golf event to raise money for food banks in Iowa and Wisconsin. In 2022, the event raised over $500,000. -
Every year, the Foundation sponsors Drive Out Hunger, a golf event to raise money for food banks in Iowa and Wisconsin. In 2022, the event raised over $500,000. -
The Food Bank of Iowa Mobile Food Pantry in Centerville is sponsored and fully staffed by Alliant Energy employee volunteers every month. In 2021, the pantry’s first year, 3,000+ households were served and 124,000 pounds of food were distributed. It is the largest food pantry in the 13-county area. -
In 2022, 11 Alliant Energy employees volunteered at the Janesville Second Harvest Foodbank at First Lutheran Church in Janesville, Wisconsin. About 140 households were served. -
In September of 2022 Alliant Energy employees volunteered at a food pantry in Platteville, Wisconsin, serving about 130 households. -
In September of 2022, Alliant Energy employees recognized Hunger Action Month by volunteering at the Second Harvest Foodbank in Madison, Wisconsin. -
The Foundation provided an Impact Grant to 12 Salvation Army Corps in Iowa to fight hunger in 2023. We also provided a special holiday meal to support the Salvation Army’s Community Christmas Meal in Cedar Rapids in December of 2022. Alliant Energy employees helped serve food at the event.