The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded $99,969 in grants during its November meeting, including $52,500 to organizations serving Hall County.
The Hall County recipients are:
*$15,000 to American Red Cross Northeast Georgia, to provide disaster relief, including food, shelter, personal needs and clothing, to families in Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and Oglethorpe counties who have lost their home to a fire or natural disaster.
*$10,000 to Judy House, a faith-based transition home for homeless men who have been incarcerated or under community supervision in Barrow, Gwinnett, and Hall counties, to provide housing assistance.
*$10,000 to Latin American Association, a nonprofit organization whose “Family Well-Being” focus area fosters stable, healthy Latino families in Clarke, Gwinnett, and Hall counties, to help its Urgent Needs Program, which provides rent assistance to families in need, preventing eviction and further family destabilization.
*$10,000 to Our Neighbor, a Gainesville grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to assisting young adults with special challenges to reach their maximum level of independence, to assist with its independent living program for residents with disabilities.
*$7,500 to Tiny Stiches, in Suwanee, to provide materials and supplies for their network of volunteers to hand-craft a 28- to 32-piece layette of clothing and blankets to keep an infant warm and dry for the first three months of life, donated to mothers in Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall and Jackson counties who have little or nothing for their newborns.
Click here to see the list of all grants that were awarded at the November meeting to organizations across the Jackson EMC service area.
Jackson EMC Foundation grants are made possible by the 194,069 participating cooperative members who have their monthly electric bills rounded to the next dollar amount through the Operation Round Up program. Their “spare change” has funded 1,458 grants to organizations and 384 grants to individuals, putting more than $15 million back into local communities since the program began in 2005.
Any individual or charitable organization in the ten counties served by Jackson EMC (Clarke, Banks, Barrow, Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and Oglethorpe) may apply for a Foundation grant by completing an application, available online at https://www.jacksonemc.com/foundation-apply or at local Jackson EMC offices. Applicants do not need to be a member of Jackson EMC.
