May 2007

The Jackson EMC Foundation Board of Directors awarded a total of $79,288 in grants during their May meeting, including $60,395 to organizations and $18,893 to individuals.

Organizational Grant Recipients:

 

$12,000 to The Ark: United Ministry Outreach Center in Athens to provide emergency rent or mortgage assistance to lower income residents who have suffered a loss of income, and to help senior citizens who cannot afford medical costs or have assumed parenting responsibilities for their grandchildren.

$15,000 to the Barrow County Boys and Girls Club to provide the Homework Power Hour, a comprehensive homework help and tutoring program that provides club members with support, resources and guidance to complete their homework and start the school day with a sense of confidence and ability.

$5,495 to Jackson County 4-H to help 70 young people and their adult volunteers participate in the County and District Project Achievement, a learning and leadership event requiring students to prepare a speech and visual aids on a topic of their choice that they present in competitions with students from other counties.

$6,000 to Rising Son Ministries in Gainesville to help fund Operation Global Impact, a program that reaches out to fatherless sons, providing resources and training for mentors and opportunities for fatherless young men and their mentors to engage in activities that will help those young men develop life skills, character and work ethics.

$6,900 to Casa de Amistad in Athens to expand its Youth and Family Education Project computer lab by upgrading hardware and software to provide directed computer instruction for Latino children that will help with homework and provide tutoring, as well provide instruction for adults that would increase job readiness, including GED and English classes.

$15,000 to Mercy Health Center in Athens to help renovate and prepare a new, larger facility that will allow it to expand the non-profit, volunteer-based medical, dental and pharmaceutical care it offers to the area’s uninsured residents, and accept additional volunteers.

Individual Grant Recipients:

$3,500 to install a wheelchair lift for a disabled senior citizen who lives alone.

$3,400 to install a heating and air conditioning unit in the home of a single mother whose husband passed away last year.

$2,200 to replace a well pump that was hit by lightning for a disabled woman who lives alone.

$2,800 to replace the roof of an older manufactured home for a disabled senior citizen.

$3,493 to purchase specialized computer equipment for a legally blind man so that he can work from home.

$3,500 to install a wheelchair lift on the vehicle of a disabled senior citizen.

Are You Missing Out on an Operation Round Up Grant?

Are you missing out on an Operation Round Up (ORU) grant opportunity? Grant applications are available to individuals and organizations within Jackson EMC's 10-county service territory. You don't have to be a member to apply, and decisions are made monthly. Jackson EMC's Foundation has awarded nearly $1.2 million to 106 organizations and 38 individuals so far, and there's room for more. Apply today or recommend the program to someone you know. Visit www.jacksonemc.com/roundup to learn more about ORU and the difference our members are making through the Jackson EMC Foundation.