Heating Energy Assistance Team

Though the use of publicly donated and developed funds provided financial assistance to 1,391 households. Funding was made to the Georgia Department of Human Services DHS to be used and administered in concert with their LIHEAP program and under their guidelines for benefit qualification. Similarly through the use of a grant by the Georgia Public Service Commission provided financial assistance to 351 households within the service area of the Atlanta Gas Light natural gas pipeline to prevent disconnection or restore energy service based on funding guidelines. The organization also provides relief through a donor advised fund to LIHEAP qualified households who are customers of the donor and whose circumstances are dire and who would suffer hardship if the assistance was processed through usual channels. One household was assisted by this fund.