TWEC’s Operation Round Up gives back
The Operation Round Up Program from Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative is one of the ways the co-op and its members give back to the communities they serve.
The TWEC Community Trust Board recently met and awarded 18 Operation Round Up grants to local non-profit organizations, totaling of $8,825. The recipient organizations and their awards are as follows:
Miss Sebeka Scholarship, $500 for parade float; Todd County Sheriff’s Dept, $400 for Posse First Aid Training; Cyber Café, $500 for Duck Drop fundraiser; W-DC Robotics Program for Robotics team; Bertha Baseball, $500 for ‘Field of Dreams’ Project; Project Linus, $500 for fleece blanket program; Lutheran Social Services, $500 for healthy meals for the elderly; Lakeland Hospice, $250 for Hospice Awareness; Nimrod Community Hall, $750 for building updates; Eagle Bend Library, $350 for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten; Wadena Area Volunteers (WAVe), $425 for Family Fun Day and Santa’s Workshop; Wadena Hoppin’ Hares, $600 for Hoppin’ Hares 4-H Club; Staples Motley School Readiness Program, $300 for ECFE classroom restoration; City of Eagle Bend, $1,000 for regional kitchen; Red Eye Township, $250 for cemetery sign; Todd County Council on Aging, $500 for bundled meals; B-H Trap Team, $500 for high school Trap Shooting Team; Miss Bluffton Scholarship, $500 for parade float.
Funds for the Operation Round Up program come from participating Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative members who allow their monthly electric bills to be rounded up to the nearest dollar, with the change allocated to a community trust fund. The average donation is less than 50 cents per month, yet together, members raise and donate approximately $30,000 annually to community service projects in the two-county area.
Since the program’s inception in 2002, 593 local service projects have been funded a total of $437,289.
Todd-Wadena’s Operation Round Up grant applications are reviewed and recipients selected three times a year by a seven-member volunteer Community Trust board. The next application deadline is October 15.
Local nonprofit community service groups may apply for Operation Round Up grants by stopping by or calling the Cooperative office at 800-321-8932 or by downloading a copy of the application form and guidelines from the Todd-Wadena website, www.toddwadena.coop and clicking the ‘Our Community’ tab.
