Community Impact Spotlights
Explore recent projects highlighting our commitment to environmental leadership and community vitality
Donate
Community Vitality
We invest in the communities in which we live and work through opportunities that retain and attract businesses that stimulate local economies, encourage workforce readiness, and provide basic needs that help people contribute to society.
United Way Day of CaringRecently, 115 Evergy employees participated in the annual Nancy Perry Day of Caring hosted by United Way of Greater Topeka alongside nearly 800 other community volunteers. The Topeka Zoo, the Boy Scouts of America, the Topeka Housing Authority, the Topeka Public Schools, and the Topeka Civic Theater benefited from Evergy employees' extra hands. Evergy and the United Way organizations throughout the service territory move our communities forward through collaboration and alignment of our focus and investments strategy.
Community Partners
Environmental leadership
We're committed to a sustainable energy future with less environmental impact through sustainable business practices, land and resource conservation, education and stewardship.
Evergy installs sustainably-built Little Free Libraries
As community
organizations work on unpacking complex influences on a child’s readiness for
kindergarten, one truth remains: access to books is fundamental to reading
success. Family engagement is also a key
in improving childhood literacy rates. The Wichita Public
Library Foundation is
focused on providing books and resources in nontraditional ways to the underserved
neighborhoods in Wichita through Little Free Libraries (LFL). The 26 LFL, one
for each letter of the alphabet, will offer a variety of books for children and
families to incorporate literacy in their lives. There will be education
resources and information that increases awareness of the “Library of Things”
like free use of Wi-Fi hotspots and Chromebooks for members to use in their
home. Evergy and the WPLF partnered to install the small libraries with
recycled and reused power poles and using solar energy to power the auditory
system that pronounces letters and numbers when the door of the library is
opened, is solar powered.
“Barriers like transportation, busy family schedules and adult illiteracy often cause library visits to curtail. This pilot project will allow for an extension of our branches to make reading and resources more accessible to children and families.” Kristi Oberg, Wichita Public Library Foundation Executive Director
Holiday Lights
