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, LeAna Hug, John Paul Martin and Su-Lin Tschider met in March  2024 to review grant applications submitted in the past six months. They awarded a total of $37,000 in grant dollars to 20 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                                                                        
• BIO Girls                                                                                          
• Circle C Ranch                                                                                             
• Dream Center Bismarck                                                                 
• Law Enforcement Admin Support                                                            
• Youthworks                                                                                                  
• Tracy’s Sanctuary House                                                                            
• AID, Inc.                                                                                           
• Freedom Riders (mailed)                                                                            
• Sheridan Co. Park Board (mailed)                                                
• Volunteer Caregivers Exchange                                                     
• Sheridan Memorial Home (delivered)                                                       
• Sheridan Co. Historical Museum (mailed)                                    
• Wilton Food Pantry                                                                         
• Gateway to Science                                                                          
• CPABLE                                                                                          
• Heartview Foundation                                                                   
• Bismarck Youth Baseball                                                               
• St. Mary’s Central High School Robotics                                    
• Girl Scouts – Dakota Horizons                                                                                        

The next application deadline will be September 2024. Any person in the counties of Burleigh and Sheridan may apply to receive an Operation Round-Up grant.