Todd-Wadena Electric grant applications
The next deadline to submit applications for Operation Round Up grants from Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative is September 15, 2016. Local community organizations may apply for an Operation Round Up grant by completing and returning a simple, one-page application form, available online at www.toddwadena.coop or by contacting Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative at 631-3120 or 800-321-8932.
About $10,000 will be available for donations in this round. Grant applications are reviewed and awards determined by a Community Trust Board, a seven-member, independent, volunteer group.
To qualify for an Operation Round Up grant, organizations must be nonprofit entities serving the Todd/Wadena County area. Qualifying projects may be for general community service, economic development, education, youth, environmental, emergency energy assistance or disaster relief. Contributions are not made to political or religious organizations, fund-raising dinners, raffles, capital fund campaigns, national fund drives, for advertising or to individuals.
Operation Round Up grants for local community service projects are made possible by the members of Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative, who allow their monthly electric bills to be rounded up to the nearest dollar. The change is placed in the Todd-Wadena Community Trust account and awarded for community service projects every four months. The average individual contribution is less than fifty cents a month, yet Todd-Wadena members raise about $30,000 annually. Since the program began in 2002, more than $437,000 has been donated to 550 local service projects.
