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Golfers tee up funds to help Entergy Mississippi customers in need
05/02/2025
The Power to Care golf tournament provides resources for emergency bill assistance
Over the years, Entergy’s The Power to Care program has made a significant impact. Through the program, local nonprofit agencies, employees and generous customers throughout our service territory have helped provide emergency bill payment assistance to older adults and customers with disabilities.
All the assistance is made possible through charitable donations and fundraising events like Entergy Mississippi’s The Power to Care Golf Tournament held recently at the Country Club of Jackson. All donations go directly to helping elderly and disabled customers make payments on their Entergy bill and are not used for fundraising or administrative purposes. Successful events like the golf tournament play an important role in having the resources needed when customers need assistance, especially during the hot summer months ahead.
The 2025 event shattered the amount raised by the inaugural 2024 tournament by almost $20k. This year’s tournament raised $147,380 to help elderly and disabled customers with emergency bill assistance, easily surpassing the 2024 total of $128,600.
“The amount raised by the Power to Care golf tournament is phenomenal and will go a long way in helping our elderly and disabled customers with bill payment assistance,” said Valarie Mabry, public affairs analyst for Entergy Mississippi. “I appreciate the tournament committee, sponsors and teams for supporting this important program to help customers.”
Thirty-six four-man teams took to the greens under a crisp blue sky, each hoping for drives that stayed true and putts that sank easily. When all teams returned to the CCJ clubhouse, the Southern Utility team topped the competition with a team score of 57. In recognition of this accomplishment, each member of the winning team received a green jacket in the spirit of the Masters golf tournament that took place in April.
“The Power to Care Golf Tournament is a labor of love for all of us who plan the event,” said Fox, a category management specialist III who also serves as tournament committee chair. “Knowing that all the funds raised support such an important cause drives us to create a great event. The credit really goes to our sponsors and the teams who came out to support the event. Their support will allow us to lend a helping hand to our elderly and disabled customers when they need it the most.”
The success of the Power to Care golf tournament would not have been possible without Black & Veatch, and their subsidiary, Overland Contracting, who contributed $25,000 as the title sponsor. Contributing $10,000 each, the Diamond Sponsors were TSL Power Partners and Mitsubishi Power.
Gold Sponsors included SUSA, Diamond Industries, Groome Industrial Service group, Framatome, Headwaters, Canadian Solar, Magnolia Utility Services, Fire Tech Systems, Inc., Allied Power, Quanta, Valmont and Victaulic. The Silver Sponsors for the tournament were TechServ, Richard Baughn Construction, Coastal Industrial Contractors, Inc., Kiewit, NASS, T&C Specialty Distributors, Inc., Irby, Wesco, Aertker Company, Irby Construction, EDG and Wise Carter.
Jackson’s own craft brewery, Fertile Ground Beer Co., donated beverages for the event.
