MTE Customers Care donates $10k to Dispensary of Hope
Left, Dispensary of Hope’s Pharmacy Manager Selina Chee, Certified Pharmacy Technician Sharon Morrison and Social Worker Adam Wilson accept a replica check for $10,000 from MTE Customers Care Board member Bill Strang.
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $10,000 of Operation Round Up funds to Dispensary of Hope.
“These funds are going to help us in purchasing diabetic medications,” Dispensary of Hope Certified Pharmacist Technician Sharon Morrison said. “We spend about $50,000 a year on those types of medicines, which are typically pretty expensive.”
Dispensary of Hope is a nonprofit organization in Rutherford County committed to helping provide affordable medications to people who don’t have insurance or whose insurance doesn’t cover all of the person’s prescription needs. The organization continues its existence through donations and volunteers.
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.
For more information about Customers Care and Operation Round Up, log on to www.mtemc.com or call 890-9762.
Posted on February 9, 2009.
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