MTEMC Customers Care donates $3,000 to Cannon County SAVE
From left, members of the Cannon County SAVE board Tony Burnett, Director Lisa Baird, Vance Walker and Lois Larimer display a replica check for $3,000 donated to the nonprofit organization by MTE Customers Care.
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $3,000 of Operation Round Up funds to Cannon County SAVE.
The nonprofit organization works with domestic violence cases and assists victims with services and programs to help them take back their lives.
“This donation will help us expand our training and operations and also provide more services to our clients,” Cannon County SAVE Director Lisa Baird said. “We’re very excited about this donation and are looking forward to investing it into our organization.”
Operation Round Up began in November 2003 and since that time has distributed more than $2.8 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 October 9, 2008.
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