MTE Customers Care gives $10,000 to Red Cross for assisting tornado victims
Left, Rutherford County American Red Cross Office Manager Madeline Methvin, MTE Customers Care Director Bill Strang and Rutherford County Red Cross Development Director Beth Ferguson display a replica check for $10,000 from MTE Customers Care.
MTE Customers Care has donated $10,000 of Operation Round Up funds to the American Red Cross of Rutherford County for tornado disaster relief.
The donation was a response to the tornadoes that ripped through Rutherford County April 10 leaving thousands in the dark and a path of destruction.
“These funds will go a long way to help the cause and addressing some of our current needs,” Beth Ferguson, development director of Rutherford County’s American Red Cross said.
The American Red Cross was established as a humanitarian organization to help provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
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.
For more information about Customers Care and Operation Round Up, log on to www.mtemc.com or call 890-9762.
Posted on April 27, 2009.
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