Avangrid Foundation Provides $3.1 Million to Support Over 70 Community Organizations in 2025

ORANGE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 10, 2026--

The Avangrid Foundation, the philanthropic arm of leading energy company Avangrid Inc., a member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced it provided more than $3.1 million in grants to 73 organizations in 2025. Since its founding in 2001, the Avangrid Foundation has invested more than $45 million funding to support social programs, education and training, biodiversity, and arts and culture in local communities.

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“For more than two decades, the Avangrid Foundation has championed educational opportunity, strengthened vital social programs, protected our natural resources, and enriched cultural life,” said Avangrid CEO Jose Antonio Miranda. “We remain steadfast in supporting the organizations, programs, and services that strengthen the fabric of local communities and help them thrive.”

“Our mission has always been to uplift communities by investing in programs that open doors, expand opportunity, and protect the environment we all share,” said Pablo Colón, Director of Corporate Citizenship and Executive Director of the Avangrid Foundation. “These grants reflect the Avangrid Foundation’s commitment to creating lasting, positive change where it’s needed most.”

The Avangrid Foundation’s giving focuses on the following four pillars:

In 2025, the Avangrid Foundation invested in both national and local impact, supporting national organizations such as Feeding America ®, Habitat for Humanity, and the American Red Cross, alongside community-based partners in Avangrid’s service areas, including Start Making a Reader (SMART) and the Urban League of Rochester.

“We are so grateful for Avangrid Foundation’s generous support, which helps ensure the Red Cross can prepare communities and families in advance of disasters big and small and be ready to provide comfort and hope when the unthinkable happens,” said Anne McKeough, chief development officer at the American Red Cross. “As extreme weather events become more frequent and intense, we count on donors like Avangrid Foundation as we work together to support those in need year-round.”

“We’re grateful for the Avangrid Foundation’s commitment to the local communities it serves,” said Elizabeth Pettengill, Feeding America’s interim vice president of corporate and foundation partnerships. “Their support helps partner food banks expand access to nutritious food and connect more neighbors to the food they need to thrive.”

In addition to corporate giving, the Avangrid Foundation also helps to amplify employees’ service in communities through the Energized for Good program. Through this initiative, the Avangrid Foundation donates $15/hour for employee volunteer hours to qualifying organizations, up to 100 hours per employee. The program also matches 50 cents on every dollar up to $1,500 in match funds per employee for qualifying organizations.

About Avangrid Foundation: The Avangrid Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that funds philanthropic investments that primarily impact communities where Avangrid, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate. Since 2001, the Avangrid Foundation and its predecessors have invested more than $45 million in partnerships that focus on building sustainable, vital and healthy communities; preserving cultural and artistic heritage; advancing education; and improving people’s lives. The Avangrid Foundation is committed to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the United States. For more information, please visit https://www.avangrid.com/avangrid-foundation.

About Avangrid: Avangrid, Inc. is a leading energy company in the United States working to meet the growing demand for energy for homes and businesses across the nation through service, innovation, and continued investments by expanding grid infrastructure and energy generation projects. Avangrid has offices in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, and Oregon, including operations in 23 states with approximately $48 billion in assets, and has two primary lines of business: networks and power. Through its networks business, Avangrid owns and operates eight electric and natural gas utilities, serving more than 3.4 million customers in New York and New England. Through its power generation business, Avangrid owns and operates 80 energy generation facilities across the United States producing 10.5 GW of power for over 3.1 million customers. Avangrid employs approximately 8,000 people and has been recognized by JUST Capital as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s best corporate citizens – in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year. The company was named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2025 for the seventh consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute. Avangrid is a member of the group of companies controlled by Iberdrola, S.A. For more information, visit http://www.avangrid.com.

Pictured: Janet L Swanson Wildlife Hospital - Cornell University (New York), Avangrid Foundation grantee.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will personally carry the wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking the first time in decades that a pope carries the cross to every station.

“I think it will be an important sign because of what the pope represents, a spiritual leader in the world today, and for this voice, that everyone wants to hear, that says Christ still suffers,” Leo told reporters this week outside of the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo. “I carry all of this suffering in my prayer.”

John Paul II carried the cross for the entire procession from his first Good Friday as pontiff in 1979 until his hip surgery in 1995, when he carried it just part of the way, according to AP reports at the time.

For the first two years of his papacy, Benedict XVI carried the cross for the first station inside the Colosseum, then followed other bearers in the procession that ends on a platform on the Palatine Hill.

Pope Francis never carried the cross, but participated in the procession until his health worsened. He died after a long illness last year on Easter Monday, which fell on April 21.

Pope John Paul II was just 58 when he became pope, and was known as a hiker and outdoorsman. His two successors were in their late 70s when they began their papacies, and Francis was missing part of a lung due to a pulmonary infection as a young man.

At 70, Leo is physically fit and an avid tennis player and swimmer. Before becoming pope, Leo would work out regularly at a gym near the Vatican, with a plan befitting a man in his early 50s, according to his former trainer.

Crowds are expected to gather outside of the Colosseum for the Way of the Cross, which commemorates the final hours of Jesus’ life, from his death sentence to taking up the cross to his crucifixion, death and burial. The procession ends outside the Colosseum atop the Palatine Hill.

The meditations, which are read aloud at each station, were composed by the Rev. Francesco Patton, who was custos (or custodian) of the Holy Land 2016-25, charged, among other things, with looking after sacred sites

“The Way of the Cross is not intended for those who lead a pristinely pious or abstractly recollected life,” Patton wrote in his introduction. “Instead, it is the exercise of one who knows that faith, hope and charity must be incarnated in the real world.”

On Holy Saturday, the pontiff will preside over Easter vigil rites at St. Peter’s Square and lead Roman Catholics into Christianity’s most joyous celebration marking Christ’s resurrection.

On Easter Sunday, the pope will celebrate an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square before delivering his Easter message and offer the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” blessing to the city (of Rome) and the world.

Pope Leo XIV attends the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Catholic Good Friday, Friday, April 3, 2026 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Leo XIV attends the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Catholic Good Friday, Friday, April 3, 2026 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)