MTEMC's Customers Care donates $7K to Mt. Juliet Help Center

From left, Mt. Juliet Help Center Board member Bart Scott, Board President Mary Bacon, Center Director Lois Carrithers and Board member Britt Linville display a replica check for $7,000 donated to the center by MTEMC Customers Care.

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation's Customers Care has donated $7,000 of Operation Round Up funds to the Mt. Juliet Help Center.

“This grant donation comes at a good time as we need it to help us restock our food shelves,” Mt. Juliet Help Center Director Lois Carrithers said, “and continue providing community assistance for the residents in our area.”

The Mt. Juliet Help Center is a nonprofit organization created to assist people in West Wilson County who are unable to provide necessities for their households.

Operation Round Up began in November 2003 and since that time has distributed more than $2 million into the communities Middle Tennessee Electric serves.

The initiative “rounds up” members' bills to the next highest dollar, with that extra change set aside for worthy causes. It is the responsibility of the Customers Care Board, which is composed of seven MTEMC members, to evaluate grant requests and send the money back to qualifying organizations.

Incoming contributions are tracked by county so that the Customers Care Board can do its best to ensure money contributed by members in a certain county goes to that county. Any balances will be carried over each month.

For more information about Customers Care and Operation Round Up, log on to www.mtemc.com or call 890-9762.

Posted on May 6, 2008.