MTEMC Customers Care donates $9,000 to Against the Grain

MTEMC Customers Care, Inc., recently made a $9,000 donation to Against the Grain in Williamson County. In front, left to right, are two of the organization’s student participants. Second row, from left to right, are site director Kristy Webb, chief operations officer Meredith Kendall and volunteer Amy Brooks. Back row, from left to right, are founders Rob Kendall and Customers Care director Bill Brown.

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $9,000 of Operation Round Up funds to Against the Grain.

“These funds will go to help enhance our Freedom Schools project, which is an integrative reading program for kids in poverty,”Against the Grain founder Rob Kendall said, “and is designed to help students learn the love of reading and help them improve their reading skills.”

Against the Grain is a nonprofit organization in Williamson County, which assists and provides support for at-risk children and single mothers and helps them break generational cycles of poverty.

Operation Round Up began in November 2003 and since that time has distributed more than $2.8 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.

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

Posted on July 3, 2008.