Giving back: TEP awards $250,000 in community grants

Tucson Electric Power awarded $250,000 in grants on Sept. 13 to help 12 local nonprofit groups improve education, protect the environment and provide community assistance.

TEP’s Community Impact Grants will fund home repairs for 175 limited-income families, develop new solar energy resources, expand opportunities for thousands of underserved students and provide other critical services to local residents, the utility said in a news release.

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The grants include:

• Community assistance: $75,000 to Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona; $30,000 to Our Family Services, Inc.; $17,650 to the Sahuarita Food Bank and Good Shepherd United Church of Christ; $10,000 to Casa de los Niños Crisis Shelter Program; $5,000 to Handi-Dogs, Inc.; $5,000 to Southern Arizona Children’s Advocacy Center.
• Education: $20,000 to the City Center for Collaborative Learning’s CommunityShare program; $10,000 to the Act One Field Trip Program; $10,000 to JobPath, Inc.; $10,000 to the YMCA of Southern Arizona; $7,000 to Sonoran Art Foundation, Inc.
• Environmental protection and sustainability: $50,350 to the Reid Park Zoological Society for a new animal veterinary center.