--- title: "Citizens for Good: New Portal for Employee Volunteering" description: "Citizens for Good: New Portal for Employee Volunteering " image: https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/hubfs/Citizens%20for%20Good%20Portal%20Screenshot.jpg --- [![](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/hubfs/Engauge/engauge-logo.jpg)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge) [![](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/hubfs/Backgrounds/search-mobile.png)](https://www.citizensenergygroup.com/Search) # Citizens for Good: New Portal for Employee Volunteering By Mandy Saucerman on 7/29/21 9:35 AM ![](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/hubfs/Citizens%20for%20Good%20Portal%20Screenshot.jpg) A new site on iTrust has been launched to manage volunteerism at Citizens Energy Group.  [The Citizens for Good volunteer portal](https://citizensenergy.sharepoint.com/sites/Volunteering) enables employees to sign up for Citizens-sponsored volunteer opportunities and track their individual community volunteer hours.   The portal, which can be accessed via the Corporate Affairs iTrust site, was developed to help employees understand our overall investment in the community. In addition, results of the annual Corporate Accountability Study, a survey of local community leaders, indicate that our company is rated more favorably when the public is aware of how we give back.  ![DSC_0179](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DSC_0179.jpg?width=233&name=DSC_0179.jpg) A group of employees formed a project team to brainstorm ways to increase the visibility of Citizens’ community support. The team was led by **Jennifer Mentink**, Marketing Communications Coordinator. Other members included **Jennifer Bailey**, **Ryan Basore**, **Stacy Caldwell**, **Garrick Hardy**, **Vicki Hughes** (who has retired), **Beth Noel**, and **Lacy Wooden**.  The name “Citizens for Good” was developed by the team to encompass all that Citizens does to help our community. Along with being the name of the new volunteer portal, it is used as a hashtag on social media when promoting ways Citizens gives back to the community. It also has been used as a headline in the last several issues of *Engauge* to highlight grants awarded to local non-profits by the Corporate Sponsorship/Philanthropy Team.  The Citizens for Good volunteer portal includes a calendar of events for which employees can sign up to volunteer; general guidelines for volunteering at Citizens-sponsored events; and information about our annual giving campaign for the United Way of Central Indiana, the Jefferson Awards for Volunteer Service, and our Community Volunteer Support Program, which provides $250 grants to non-profits for which our employees and retirees volunteer.  ![DSC_0221](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DSC_0221.jpg?width=350&name=DSC_0221.jpg) “We are really excited about the new portal,” said Mentink. “It will allow employees to track their volunteer hours in real time and also calculates the collective volunteer hours of all our employees. We will use the site for volunteer event sign-ups when we are able to host opportunities for our employees again.”  --- *Please contact **Jennifer Mentink** if you have questions or if you would like a demonstration of the Citizens for Good volunteer portal at an upcoming department staff meeting.  * ### Current Articles ### Recent Issues - [November 2019 (23)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/11) - [November 2018 (21)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2018/11) - [January 2021 (21)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/01) - [October 2021 (21)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/10) - [February 2020 (20)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/02) - [December 2021 (20)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/12) - [October 2018 (19)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2018/10) - [January 2019 (19)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/01) - [June 2020 (19)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/06) - [August 2019 (18)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/08) - [October 2019 (18)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/10) - [April 2020 (18)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/04) - [September 2022 (18)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2022/09) - [July 2019 (17)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/07) - [July 2020 (17)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/07) - [June 2021 (17)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/06) - [April 2019 (16)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/04) - [January 2020 (16)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/01) - [October 2020 (16)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/10) - [December 2020 (16)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/12) - [April 2021 (16)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/04) - [July 2021 (16)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/07) - [September 2020 (15)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2020/09) - [March 2021 (15)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/03) - [June 2022 (15)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2022/06) - [February 2019 (14)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/02) - [May 2019 (14)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2019/05) - [May 2022 (14)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2022/05) - [July 2022 (14)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2022/07) - [October 2023 (13)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2023/10) - [September 2021 (12)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2021/09) - [March 2023 (12)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2023/03) - [May 2023 (12)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2023/05) - [June 2023 (12)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2023/06) - [February 2022 (11)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2022/02) - [August 2018 (10)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2018/08) - [August 2023 (10)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2023/08) - [March 2022 (9)](https://blog.citizensenergygroup.com/engauge/archive/2022/03) [![PDF Archives](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2545024/33b9e93c-8f43-4101-9b48-7e78154731f5.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2545024/33b9e93c-8f43-4101-9b48-7e78154731f5) **Engauge** is published by Citizens Energy Group, Corporate Affairs Department, under the direction of Shannon Stahley, Director of Corporate and Public Affairs. 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