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We celebrated Dr. Seuss birthday by participating in Read Across America and encouraging our employees to share their love of reading with a child. Our employees read at 31 schools and nonprofits to over 2700 students. In addition we made 22 grants totaling 7775. 11 Junior Achievement Employees across our footprint support the Junior Achievement program in their communities including serving on their local programs boards of directors raising funds through bowling events and sharing valuable information about business and financial literacy. Last year marked a major corporate milestone having reached more than 50000 students in Houston our largest market with our longstanding JA partnership. In 2015 our volunteers enabled 7000 Houston-area students to gain an understanding of work readiness entrepreneurship and financial literacy so that they can have an impact on their citys future. Our partnership with Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas goes beyond teaching business concepts including teaching youths about electric and natural gas safety. As part of JA Biztown CenterPoint Energys safety depot allows students to role play as safety experts. In Minneapolis our volunteers at JA STEM camp helped students gain an understanding and appreciation of how an engineers work makes our community safer and more efficient. As a sponsor for JA Inspire a unique career awareness event held in the Houston area CenterPoint Energy helped nearly 19000 middle school students learn about local companies and careers as well as valuable electric and gas safety messages. 1500 students learned about staying safe around electricity through our partnership with Childrens Museum of Houston Page 9 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report