Story Contact: Cindy King
Phone: 678-455-1539
E-Mail: cindy.king@sawnee.com

SAWNEE EMC OPERATION ROUND UP DONATES $1,000 TO CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA

(Cumming, December 16, 2004)— “Children need Children’s… and Children’s needs you.” This is a phrase we have all become very familiar with in regards to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Children, in pain and suffering are not something any of us like to think about, but our Operation Round Up participants have come to the rescue again. Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation Board of Directors voted to donate $1, 000.00 to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. “This type of generosity is exactly what allows us to stand behind our commitment that no child will ever be turned away because of the family’s ability to pay! We appreciate your efforts and the generosity of your constituents!”, stated Susan Blair Brandt, Senior Development Officer Foundation-Gifting Planning of Children’s Healthcare.

  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) and 501 (c) (4) organizations within Sawnee’s service territory.   “We began “rounding up” bills in June of 2003 and, through the generosity of our members, we have donated over $45,000 in the Foundations first year”, 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 120,000 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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