Neighbors Helping Neighbors

One of the founding principles of your electric co-op was neighbors helping neighbors. Our cooperative is in touch with the communities we serve. Our directors and employees live in these communities. That's why we work hard to achieve a better quality of life for our member-owners. In that spirit Operation Round Up was launched.

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Operation Round Up is a program designed to raise funds for charitable organizations, individuals in need and educational purposes. As the name suggests participating members bills are rounded up to the nearest dollar. On average the annual donation will be around $6. One hundred percent of the money is given to local concerns with no funds used for electric bills, administrative costs, or political purposes. A simple application to the independent board overseeing the Operation Round Up is all that is needed to apply for funds. Please see below for an application.

Collectively and for just pennies a month we can make a difference in our communities!

Guideline-given to co-op members that are experiencing a hardship causing family financial strain. Hardship causes include a family member medical condition, a death in the family, or displacment from their home caused by fire or other means. Unemployment, unless caused by one of the before mentioned causes, would not qualify as a hardship.

Operation Round Up Trust Board Members

Mark Foresth - Chairperson - representing the townships of Iola, Helvetia, and Union

Tammy Meverden - Vice Chairperson - Representing the townships of Norrie, Birnamwood, Elderon, and Wittenberg

Rita Beker - Secretary - Representing the townships of Kronenwetter, Reid, Knowlton, Guenther, and Bevent

Sheri Beilke - Treasurer - representing the townships of Hutchins, Almon, Bartelme, and Red Springs

Jeanne Opperman - representing the townships of Harrison, Wyoming, and Dupont

Kevin Mueller - Representing the townships of Morris, Seneca, Germania, Fairbanks, and Grant

Caitlin Fischer - Representing the townships of Amherst, Scandinavia, St. Lawrence, Lanark, and Farmington

Bonnie Ziolkowski - Representing the townships of Dewey-Eau Pleine, Dewey, Sharon, Hull, and Sharon-Stockton

Jordan Groshek - representing the townships of Franzen, Alban, and New Hope

2024 Operation Round Up Donation Recipients

1st QUARTER:

$1,000 – Individual Medical Hardship donation.
$1,000 – Family Medical Hardship donation.
$1,000 – Individual Medical Hardship donation.
$1,000 – Town of Sharon First Responders to help pay for a CO detector for each of the 11 responders.
$300 – Iola Historical Society to help with their five projects with high priority merit and demand that presently stand out for 2024.
$300 – Walls of Wittenberg for sponsorship of the Best of Show Award for their Artists Tree Play XI Show.
$250 – Wittenberg-Birnamwood Booster Club for the W-B Booster Bash fundraising event. All proceeds and donations go back to the various activities and needs they sponsor in their district.

2nd QUARTER:

$1,000 – Scandinavia Volunteer Fire Department to help purchase new equipment for their volunteers.
$500 – VFW Auxiliary Elderon Memorial Post 8068 to help with their holiday appreciation gifts for local veterans at King Veterans Home.
$500 – American Legion Sheveland-Taylor Post 14 Iola to help pay for their special projects to honor their veterans.
$500 MAMA House of Hope to help purchase food products for the pantry and the school backpack program.
$300 – Jensen Community Center to sponsor a youth soccer team’s shirt.
$250 – Birnamwood Polka Days to help with sponsorship of their three-day event.
$250 – Wittenberg-Birnamwood Booster Club for their 2024 Grad Bash event.
$250 – Iola Lions/Lioness to help with their 28th Annual Iola-Scandinavia Post Prom Party.
$250 – Tigerton School District for its 4K/Kindergarten swimming program.
$250 – Bowler School District for their high school Class of 2024 graduation party.

3rd QUARTER:

$500 – Jensen Community Center to help with its community center expansion project.
$500 – Rosholt School District to help with the purchase of a new digital piano for their district.
$500 – American Legion Post 509-Rosholt to help pay for the cost to redo their parking lot.
$250 – Town of Sharon-Polonia Park to help offset some of their Steak Night fundraiser expenses.

4th QUARTER:

$1,000 – Individual Medical Hardship donation.
$1,000 – Family Hardship donation.
$1,000 – Dewey Fire Department to help pay for an air breathing pack that firefighters will use to enter a fire.
$500 –Toys for Tots donation to purchase toys for the CWEC Toys for Tots campaign.
$500 – To each of nine area food pantries to help them purchase food to be given to those in need.
$500 – Rosholt Area Youth Baseball to help purchase some new equipment-batting helmets and catcher’s equipment.
$250 – Tigerton School District-MS/HS PBIS to help build and sustain its PAWSitive behavior program, which rewards students monthly for positive behavior.
$250 – Tigerton School District-Middle School to help with learning outside the classroom travel expenses.
$250 – Boys & Girls Club of Portage County-Rosholt Extension to help with its Taste of Rosholt Fundraiser, which benefits the boys and girls attending the Rosholt Extension.
$250 – Central WI Order of the Sleepless Knights Parrothead Club to help with its Bowl with the Band fundraiser.
$100 – Walls of Wittenberg to help pay for its January/February Quilt Show “Finely Finished” Art of the Quilter show.