MTE Customers Care donates $4,800 to Southern STARRS
Southern STARRS, Inc., students, volunteers, board and staff members display a replica check for $4,800 donated by MTE’s Customers Care.
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $4,800 of its Operation Round Up funds to Southern STARRS.
“We’re very thankful to be the recipient of this donation,” Southern STARRS PR and Event Coordinator Kaysie Young said. “We plan to use the funds to help us upgrade our facility.”
The nonprofit organization provides safe and goal-oriented therapeutic, recreational horseback riding and animal assisted activities for special needs children and adults.
Operation Round Up began in November 2003 and since that time has distributed more than $3 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.
MTE Customers Care funds may not be used for political or expressly religious purposes, schools or school-related organizations.
Posted on November 6, 2009.
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