EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES PPL FOUNDATION 2020 COMMUNITY REPORT A PPL Foundation grant helped fund this Special Response Vehicle that addresses a vulnerability of mass transportation and care in emergency situations while supporting community health, education and outreach efforts in rural north central . Community Support in a Challenging Year In 2020, COVID-19 and the racial justice movement brought sewing masks for healthcare workers and sending cards a heightened awareness of the impact that can be made and letters to older adults isolated in nursing homes. through community partnerships and investments. The racial justice movement of the past year has brought to light the inequities faced by minority citizens in our Whether big cities or small towns, every community we communities. serve was facing the same challenge. While diversity and inclusion have always been key PPL’s response to COVID-19 included: considerations in the choices we make when investing in • Significant donations of PPE to local hospitals and local communities, the PPL Foundation announced in June emergency management agencies. 2020 that it would expand the mission and focus to more • Grants of $500,000 to assistance programs to help directly support racial justice and equity initiatives. energy customers facing economic hardships. The announcement was paired with an initial contribution of • Contributions totaling more than $300,000 in funding to $100,000 to Pennsylvania organizations working to make local COVID-19 relief efforts throughout Pennsylvania to real and lasting changes in these areas. Additionally, the support our customers and communities. PPL Foundation launched a scholarship program — Powering a Brighter Future — to advance diversity, equity Additionally, corporate responsibility staff actively worked and inclusion and attract more women and minorities to with nonprofit partners to facilitate virtual volunteer careers in engineering, information technology, and tech and activities for employees to help communities and individuals trade roles. The PPL Foundation will award $1 million in hit hardest by COVID-19. Some of the virtual activities scholarships over the next decade. included tutoring students in under-resourced schools,

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2 Illuminating the work of unsung community heroes

IIn 2020, PPL marked a century of people powering life. To celebrate our centennial, the PPL Foundation honored people who work to transform lives in their communities. They are the bright lights powering progress and making a difference. The PPL Foundation awarded a total of $100,000 in grants to help illuminate the outstanding contributions of individuals working in the nonprofit sector. Ten Bright Lights grants of $10,000 were awarded in recognition of the honorees to the nonprofit agencies they support.

Dave Brumbaugh, Kristen Boyle is an founder and executive director inspiration to everyone who of the Uptown Music Melisa Baez leads the meets her. Legally blind, she Collective in Williamsport, Pa., work of ASSETS Lancaster, a has become an integral part of has spent the last 20 years nonprofit focused on trans- the design and creation of pursuing one goal – to educate forming the community through many programs for Northeast and create well-rounded ethical and inclusive business Sight Services in Exeter, Pa. musicians, ages 10-18, so that practices. She has helped She is committed to the they can connect their commu- countless entrepreneurs start development and improvement nity with music. “He is not just and grow their businesses in of programs that help other molding great musicians; he is Lancaster County and South members of the community making great humans,” says Central, Pa. who suffer from vision loss. one student’s mom.

Sarah "Sally" Casey has led the struggle against domestic violence in Schuylkill County, Pa., since the grassroots efforts began in 1983. Her dedication and vision ever since to Schuylkill Women in Crisis has developed into a collaborative community response that has helped thousands of victims and their families find safety and healing.

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Darian Colbert has invested in the Allentown community by engaging in the leadership development of Melissa Fillman Christopher Kaag, thousands of students, adult founded Kindness is Magic, founder and executive director leaders and volunteers through a organization of the IM ABLE Foundation in the nonprofit agency, Cohesion that improves the education Berks County, Pa., works to Network. Its mission is to outcomes of public-school promote active lifestyles for collaborate with residents, students by advocating for everybody, including people organizations and local all students to be provided a with disabilities and veterans. government to empower nutritious lunch regardless people socially, educationally of their economic status. and economically, and create lasting change.

Teresa Peters is making Yamelisa Taveras is a huge impact in her hometown the founder of Unidos, an of Berwick, Pa., and beyond, by organization in the Lehigh Tim Lee is the driving force operating For the Cause, the Valley that works to improve behind The Mountain Center, a area’s first free, public and the quality of life for under- facility that offers a multitude youth-led teen center. The privileged and marginalized of services to Monroe County nonprofit provides unique residents by empowering unity residents. Four years ago, Lee programming aimed at devel- and self-investment. The group turned an abandoned school oping and supporting teens in recently raised funds to provide building into a community grades 7-12. In addition, it free laptops to Allentown resource center that assisted offers basic needs such as School District students thousands of Monroe County nutritious food, shelter and transitioning to remote learning residents in 2019. clothing. due to COVID-19.

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4 COVID relief We are committed to helping our neighbors through these • Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way difficult times. And we’re proud to partner with community • Luzerne Foundation agencies working on the front lines during this public health • Lycoming County United Way emergency to ensure that the most vulnerable among us • United Way have a safety net. • Schuylkill United Way The PPL Foundation donated $300,000 to a dozen agencies • Scranton Area Community Foundation providing COVID-19 relief efforts across central and eastern • United Way of Berks County Pennsylvania, including the Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lehigh • United Way of Capital Region Valley, Poconos and Susquehanna Valley regions. • United Way of Lancaster County • United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley Agencies that received contributions as part of COVID-19 relief efforts are: Additionally, the PPL Foundation contributed $500,000 in March to Operation HELP to support PPL Electric Utilities • Clinton County United Way customers dealing with temporary hardships as a result of • Columbia Montour United Way the coronavirus outbreak.

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200+ $3.8M 7,000+ ORGANIZATIONS TOTAL GIVING HOURS VOLUNTEERED RECEIVED SUPPORT BY PPL EMPLOYEES

Sustaining Grants PPL Foundation proudly supports the important work being done by the nonprofit sector to improve life in our communities. Whether it’s providing critical homework help for young students, a path out of homelessness for families in need or innovative economic recovery efforts that benefit all residents, 2020’s grant recipients were focused on transforming their communities. The PPL Foundation awarded more than $500,000 in grants to 116 nonprofit organizations across central and eastern Pennsylvania to strengthen education and support sustainable communities.

• Allentown Rescue Mission • Foundation for Free Enterprise Education • Archie’s Place • Fulton Theatre Company • Berwick Area YMCA • Girl Scouts in the Heart of PA • Boys & Girls Club of Allentown • Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania • Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster • Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity • Brodhead Watershed Association • Greater Hazleton Area Civic Partnership • Bucks County Intermediate Unit Education Foundation • Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA • Capital Area Girls on the Run • Greater Valley Young Men’s Christian Association • Capital Region Economic Development Corporation • Hazleton Integration Project • Casa Guadalupe Center • Helping Hands Society • Central PA Business & Education Association • Johnson College • Central Pennsylvania Food Bank • Joshua Group • Clinton County Economic Partnership Foundation • Junior Achievement of Northeastern Pennsylvania • Communities in Schools of the Lehigh Valley • Junior Achievement of South-Central Pennsylvania • Community Action Commission • Leadership Lackawanna • Community Bike Works • Leadership Wilkes-Barre • Concerned Parents of the Hazleton Area • LEAF Project Inc. • Diamond City Partnership • Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers • Downtown Hazleton Alliance for Progress • Line Mountain Nourishing Eagles to Soar Weekend • Earth Conservancy Backpack Food Program • Educational Opportunity Centers of PA • Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley • Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services • Merrill Linn Land & Waterways Conservancy • Employment Opportunity & Training Center of • Milagro House Northeastern Pennsylvania • Millerstown Senior Citizens Center • Family Promise of Monroe County • Minsi Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America • Family Service Association of Northeastern • Monocacy Farms

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Casa Guadalupe Center

Wildlife Leadership Academy Williamsport Symphony Orchestra

Sustaining Grants (continued) • Monroe County Habitat for Humanity • Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services • National Audubon Society • SEEDS (Sustainable Energy Education & Development • Natural Lands Trust Support) of Northeastern PA • New Bethany • Tabor Community Services • New Birth of Freedom Council, Boy Scouts of America • The Arc of Dauphin County • New Hope Ministries • The Arc Susquehanna Valley • North Penn Valley Boys & Girls Club • The Cooperage Project • North Pocono Public Library • The Factory Ministries • Osterhout Free Library • The Foundation of The Columbia Montour Chamber • Penn’s Northeast of Commerce • Pennsylvania Association of Environmental • The Greenhouse Project Educators – Wayne County • The Literacy Center • Pennsylvania College of Technology Community • The Salvation Army – Allentown Arts Center • The Salvation Army – Williamsport • Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation • Trevorton Heritage Society • Pennsylvania Envirothon Inc. • Upper Delaware Preservation Coalition • Pinebrook Family Answers • Valley Youth House Committee • Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network • Weis Center for the Performing Arts • Pocono Environmental Education Center • Wildlife Leadership Academy • Pocono Mountains United Way • Wilkes University • Pocono Northeast Development Fund • Williamsport Symphony Orchestra • Pocono Services for Families and Children • Workforce Wayne • River Valley Regional YMCA • Young Men’s Christian Association of Scranton • Safe Harbour • Young Men’s Christian Association of Wilkes-Barre • Schuylkill Chamber Foundation • Young Women’s Christian Association of Bethlehem • Scranton Lackawanna Human Development Agency

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7 PPL Foundation’s Cover to Cover program provided grants for libraries, early literacy programs and summer learning initiatives to support efforts to increase child literacy. Cover to Cover In support of Cover to Cover, the PPL Foundation’s • Orwigsburg Area Free Public Library initiative to improve child literacy through reading and • Shamokin Coal Township Public Library summer learning programs, 19 grants were awarded in • Tamaqua Public Library 2020 to the following organizations: • United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County • Child Development, Inc. • United Way of Greater Hazleton: Hazleton • Cumberland County Library System Foundation • United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties • Dimmick Memorial Library • United Way of • Ephrata Public Library Since the program started in 2016, The PPL Foundation • James V. Brown Library and PPL employees have donated about 120,000 new and • John R. Kauffman Jr. Public Library gently used books to nearly 26,000 students in schools • Lancaster Public Library throughout its Pennsylvania service area. The program also • Middletown Public Library provides funding for libraries and other summer reading • Milton Public Library programs in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Cover to • Mom’s House of Lancaster Cover is one of many examples of how PPL partners with • Northampton Area Public Library Inc. community organizations to help improve education. • Orangeville Public Library, Inc.

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8 For the past 100 years, PPL employees – past and present – have generously given their time and money to help those in our communities who need assistance. In these extraordinary times, I am extremely proud of the giving nature of PPL employees and retirees. Time and again, they have risen to the challenge to help make our communities stronger. — Vincent Sorgi, PPL president and chief executive officer

United in our mission to help others

As communities and families dealt with the challenges of COVID-19, PPL Corporation and its employees and retirees joined forces to pledge more than $4.5 million – a record-breaking amount – during the company’s annual United Way campaign to help those in need. The funds are being used to assist families struggling with COVID-19 across central and eastern Pennsylvania; expand educational opportunities for children; support access to health care services, food, shelter and other basic needs; and offer additional assistance that supports healthy communities. The company’s corporate campaign included more than $2.25 million in pledges from PPL’s Pennsylvania employees and retirees, along with employees of PPL’s Safari Energy subsidiary. As a result, PPL Foundation provided more than $2.25 million in a dollar-for-dollar match of all employee and retiree giving to United Way agencies across central and eastern Pennsylvania and in New York City, where Safari Energy is headquartered.

The PPL Foundation BOARD OF DIRECTORS empowers communities Joseph P. Bergstein | Gregory N. Dudkin | Christine M. Martin by supporting student OFFICERS Ryan W. Hill — President success from cradle to Lissette O. Santana — Chief Operating Officer career; advancing diversity, Tadd J. Henninger — Vice President and Treasurer equity and inclusion; Stephanie R. Raymond — Vice President and promoting the Andrew W. Elmore – Assistant Treasurer Vanessa D. Hartline — Assistant Treasurer development of vibrant and Elizabeth S. Duane — Corporate Secretary sustainable communities. Arden A. Leyden — Assistant Corporate Secretary

The PPL Foundation invites nonprofits to submit grant applications for consideration annually. Any nonprofit organization (501c3) working to improve the community through initiatives focused on education, community revitalization and workforce development can apply for a grant. Municipalities, churches, schools and chambers of commerce are not eligible. For complete instructions on how to apply, please visit pplcares.com