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Story Contact: Cindy King SAWNEE EMC OPERATION ROUND UP DONATES $1,500.00 TO HALL FAMILY INITIATIVE RESIDENCES, INC. (Cumming, December 22, 2003)—Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation Board of Directors voted to donate $1, 500.00 to Hall Family Initiative Residences, Inc. of Hall and Forsyth Counties. Sawnee EMC adopted Operation Round Up in April 2003 and formed the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation. Operation Round Up is a program designed to allow our members to voluntarily “round up” their electric bills to the next dollar. Through this unique program, members of Sawnee EMC can donate “small change” and still make big differences in their communities. All, 100%, of members’ donations goes to qualifying 501 (c)(3) organizations within Sawnee’s service territory. Hall F.I.R. has
served the 13-county area of northeast Georgia since 1987. Currently, this organization is operating
the only two (2) group homes for homeless people with chronic mental illness in
the area. Hall Family Initiative is
part of the Continuum of Care program in Georgia.
“We began “rounding up” bills in June and, through the generosity of our members, we were able to donate money before the holidays, which is simply incredible”, stated Cindy King, Director of External Affairs, Sawnee EMC. To learn more about the Operation Round Up program and the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation, visit www.sawnee.com or call Customer Service at 770-887-2363. Sawnee EMC is a consumer-owned cooperative providing electricity and related services to over 110,000 members in Forsyth, Cherokee, Dawson, Hall, Fulton, Gwinnett, and Lumpkin counties. Collectively, Georgia’s 42 customer-owned EMCs provide electricity and related services to 3.7 million people, nearly half of Georgia’s population, across 73% of the state’s land area. Georgia’s electric membership cooperatives now serve more customers than any other state network of EMCs in the nation.
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