MTE Customers Care donates $3,423 to High Hopes, Inc.
From left, High Hopes physical therapist Sandra Zaccari, occupational therapist Shelby Clark and Director of Therapy and physical therapist Kristin Garner display a replica check for $3,423 from Middle Tennessee Electric Customers Care.
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $3,423 of Operation Round Up funds to High Hopes, Inc.
“These funds will help us with assessing and creating care plans for our children,” High Hopes Executive Director Gail Powell said, “and the new equipment will make the hard work of therapy more fun for the kids.”
High Hopes, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that helps children with and without special needs through speech, occupational and physical therapy in the educational setting of a preschool classroom.
Operation Round Up began in 2003 and has distributed more than $3 million into MTEMC’s communities.
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.
MTE Customers Care funds may not be used for political or expressly religious purposes, schools or school-related organizations.
Posted on March 11, 2010.
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