Giving back to the community we serve is a core cooperative principal. The Operation Round Up program from Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative is a great way for the co-op and its members to give back.
Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative’s Community Trust Board met in early June and awarded eight Operation Round Up grants to local organizations, totaling $14,321.60.
The recipient organizations and their awards are as follows: Care Ministry, $1,000; Sebeka High School Trap Team, $3,000; Tapley Park Playground, $2,000; Verndale Public School, $2,000; Nimrod Community Senior Citizens Center, $2,500; Menahga Community and Senior Center, $2,021.60; Bertha-Hewitt Verndale Babe Ruth, $800; Long Prairie- Grey Eagle Elementary School, $1,000.
L to R: Dean Krogstad, Tapley Park Project; Dan Kovar, Tapley Park Project; Gail Honek, Care Ministry; Matt Jones, Verndale Public School; Annamae Holzworth, Menahga Community & Senior Center; Sarah Ness, Bertha-Hewitt Verndale Babe Ruth
Operation Round Up® is a voluntary, member-driven fundraising program for local community projects. 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 a month, yet together, members raise and donate about $29,000 annually to community service projects in the two-county area. Since the program’s inception in 2002, Todd-Wadena members have raised and donated more than $620,000 for 783 local community projects.
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 September 15.
Local, nonprofit community service groups may apply for Operation Round Up grants by downloading a copy of the application form and guidelines here.
