By news@madrapp.org | on May 29, 2024
By Chuck Jackson
MadRapp graphic by Chuck Jackson.
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative announced Tuesday that 10 non-profit organizations – including four from Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock counties – will receive portions of $106,000 collected from co-op members over the past six months.
The program collects funds when members round-up their monthly bills to the next whole-dollar amount and also when members contribute additional monies to the program.
Twice each year donations from The Power of Change are made available to non-profits.
Locally, the Madison Emergency Services Association (MESA), and Madison-based Skyline CAP Inc., along with the Orange County Free Clinic and Rappahannock’s FamilyFutures, received $14,000 to assist the poor and disadvantaged and help establish custodial savings accounts for rising kindergartners at Rappahannock County Elementary School.
MESA: 2,000 that will be used to provide shopping carts for the Complete Client Choice food pantry project;
Skyline CAP: $3,500 to provide safety items to their Safety Advances Family Empowerment program for at-risk children.
Orange Free Clinic: $5,000 for its Mental Health Counseling Services to provide medication and supplies to low-income patients;
FamilyFutures: $3,500 for their MyFuture program that teaches young children to learn, earn and save. It also establishes custodial savings accounts for them;
Other organizations that received money includes: Verdun Adventure Bound in Rixeyville ($1,975), Fauquier FISH ($2,460), The Culpeper Literacy Council ($3,000), Child Health Partnership Inc of Charlottesville ($3.500), and Operation First Response in Culpeper, $5,000.