MTE Customers Care donates $5k to Empower Me Day Camp

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $5,000 of Operation Round Up funds to Empower Me Day Camp.

“These funds are going to help us purchase our activity supplies for our summer camp,” Empower Me Day Camp Executive Director Michelle Hill said. “Right now we only have space to accommodate 24 kids at this year’s camp, but we hope to expand that in the future.

“There are more than 3,000 special needs kids in Wilson County.”

Empower Me Day Camp is a nonprofit organization founded to help children with disabilities in Middle Tennessee.

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.

MTE Customers Care funds may not be used for political or expressly religious purposes, schools or school-related organizations.

For more information about Customers Care and Operation Round Up, log on to www.mtemc.com or call 890-9762.

Posted on April 9, 2009.

 

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