The 4-County Electric Power Association Foundation has reached a milestone, exceeding $500,000 in gifts to organizations in the cooperative’s nine-county service area.
Figures total about $503,000 dispersed among 111 organizations since the program’s inception in February 2015, including recipients at this past week’s 4-County Foundation meeting. They include:
“This is a monumental achievement for the 4-County Foundation. It really is making a difference in the communities 4-County serves, all because of the generosity of the cooperative’s members,” said Jon Turner, 4-County marketing and public relations manager.
4-County believes in helping the communities it serves. That’s why the cooperative launched the 4-County Foundation, a community service program. Since February 2015, participating 4-County members’ utility bills have been rounded up to the nearest dollar; a $125.78 bill, for example, becomes $126. That’s an average of only 48 cents per participating member, per month. That may not seem like much. But when multiplied by thousands of member participants, that’s a lot of pennies.
Just a few cents a month, for each member that participates, over the course of a year makes a huge difference for organizations like Contact Helpline throughout communities in the 4-County service area.
Who decides on the dispersing of funds? 4-County Foundation board members — individuals selected from throughout the cooperative service area — decide and handle fund requests.
“This program is all about helping communities and people,” Turner said. “It’s a convenient, inexpensive way for 4-County, its members and other participants to help. Those pennies quickly add up to dollars that make a huge difference to these organizations and individuals,” he said.
For more information, contact 4-County at 1-800-431-1544.
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