Grant Recipients

A community is only as strong as the support it provides in a time of need. As you look around the Capital Electric Cooperative (CEC) service area, you see people helping others all the time. One way your cooperative gets involved is by providing grants to people and organizations to make the community stronger.

Operation Round-Up is a program in which CEC members voluntarily choose to round up their monthly utility bills and donate their pennies to a charitable trust. The money pools and accumulates, and an elected board of five co-op members reviews grant applications submitted by local people and organizations to determine grant worthiness.

Charitable Trust Board Members Jim McCullough, A.J. Tuck, Al Wald, John Paul Martin and Su-Lin Tschider met in March  2025 to review grant applications submitted in the past six months. They awarded a total of $27,500 in grant dollars to 17 worthy recipients. This is a significant total and reflects the commitment you, our member-owners, demonstrate to this program. These grants touch lives and make good things happen in our community.

The following individuals and organizations received assistance from Operation Round-Up:

• Rebuilding Together                                                                     
• Sheridan Memorial Home                                                           
• Wilton Rural Ambulance District                                             
• Horizon Middle School -Husky Gearbots                               
• CPABLE                                                                                          
• Inspiring Minds                                                                             
• Arts for All                                                                                     
• BIO Girls                                                                                        
• Freedom Riders                                                                             
• Law Enforcement Admin Support                                             
• Scottish Rite Speech Therapy                                                     
• Women in Law Enforcement Summit                                      
• Gateway to Science                                                                     
• Bismarck Youth Baseball                                                           
• Bismarck Youth Fastpitch Softball                                           
• Marketplace for Kids                                                                 
• 31:8 Project                                                                                                                                                 

The next application deadline will be August 31, 2025. Any person or non-profit organization in the counties of Burleigh and Sheridan may apply to receive an Operation Round-Up grant.