The Results Are In! Lunches of Love Awarded $100,000 to Fight Child Hunger

—Reliant Gives Voting Campaign Reaches $1 Million Mark—

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BosPlace–Texas ranks third in the nation for food insecurity and many children
facing hunger rely on school lunch as their only meal of the day. Fort
Bend nonprofit Lunches of Love helps fill the gap when children are out
of school and would otherwise not know where and when their next meal
would come. Lunches of Love will be able to serve more than 4,300
children in Fort Bend County after receiving the most public votes
during the Reliant Gives public voting campaign. Reliant employees
surprised the nonprofit today with a donation of $100,000.

Launched in 2016, Reliant
Gives Vote
, Reliant’s crowd-sourced, charitable giving program
reached $1 million in donations with this campaign. Since then, funds
have been awarded to 24 deserving nonprofits, impacting over 140,000
lives across the state of Texas.

The program allows the public to vote and direct company donations to
three nonprofits, which are nominated by employees. The nonprofit with
the most votes receives $100,000. The organization with the second most
votes was Shriners Hospitals for Children-Houston and the organization
with the third most votes was Bo’s Place.

“These three organizations each make a powerful and unique impact in
Houston, filling needs in our community that are so critically
important,” said Elizabeth Killinger, Reliant president. “I’m so
grateful to our thoughtful employees for nominating such deserving
organizations and I’m thrilled our company can support causes that are
important to both our employees and communities.”

Final Voting Results

  • $100,000: Lunches
    of Love
    provides free nutritious sack lunches to children in Fort
    Bend County that depend on breakfast and lunch provided by their
    school, during extended school holidays (spring break, summer,
    Thanksgiving and Christmas) and weekends. Hunger impairs children’s
    health in significant and long-lasting ways, including impeded growth
    and development, poor immune systems, mental health and lower test
    scores. The $100,000 donation will provide 133,333 lunches to children
    in Fort Bend County and allow the organization to add a sustainable
    garden at the facility to teach children about fruits and vegetables.
  • $30,000: Shriners
    Hospitals for Children – Houston
    provides care for children in the
    specialty areas of orthopaedics, spinal cord injury, and cleft lip and
    palate, regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
  • $20,000: Bo’s
    Place
    delivers a variety of grief support programs, information
    and resources for bereaved children, families, and adults at no cost.
    Bo’s Place operates on the belief that it is helpful and healing for
    grieving children and adults to share their stories, memories,
    experiences, thoughts and feelings with those who can understand their
    journey. The organization offers the only free on-going grief support
    program in the greater Houston area for children and their families.

About Reliant, an NRG company

Reliant powers, protects and simplifies life by bringing electricity,
smart energy solutions, residential services and security to homes and
businesses across Texas. Serving customers and the community is at the
core of what we do. Reliant is part of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), a
Fortune 500 company that creates value through best-in-class operations
and reliable and efficient electric generation. Backed by a diverse
portfolio of power generating facilities, NRG’s retail companies,
including Reliant, power more than 3 million customers in 10 states and
the District of Columbia. NRG retail brands collectively are the largest
providers of electricity in Texas. For more information about Reliant,
please visit reliant.com and connect with Reliant on Facebook at
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