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Giving Back to our Local Communities
SEPTEMBER 2016
The benefits Inland Power brings to our community don’t stop at your light switch. Your board and co-op employees support programs and projects that are good for our community. Inland Power’s employees and board members live in the same communities as you, the members we serve. Over the course of the year we sponsor youth sports teams, local high schools, provide academic and lineman scholarships to member’s children and more. We are committed and engaged to make our communities better places to live. Recently, your Inland Power board of trustees volunteered at Second Harvest Food Bank to sort apples for distribution to local community centers and food banks throughout the Inland Northwest. Inland gives back in other ways as well. For example, Inland Power and Snowdon Elementary have a great partnership going on. In August, Inland Power employees held a back to school drive for Snowdon Elementary. We also sponsor over one hundred Snowdon students by providing them with food packages throughout the school year so they have food over the weekend.
Inland Trustees Brian Slaybaugh, David Shill and Gerry Davis at Second Harvest.
Here are a few of the programs we’ve been involved with in 2016: • Operation Round Up - Donated to four charities and have collected over $25,000 to give back to local organizations. • Adopted Snowdon Elementary as Inland Power’s school. Sponsoring 103 students through a Bite 2 Go program, providing them food over the weekend where they would go without.
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Inland’s Operation Round Up program is mid-way through its third year. On a voluntary basis, our members allow us to “round up” their electric bills to the next whole dollar each month. This spare change goes into a trust fund for the purpose of providing local grants and donations to the local community. We currently have over 2,500 members that have signed up for this fantastic program to help our community. Sign up today by checking the box on your billing statement, calling Inland Power or signing up online via your Inland Power SmartHub account.
• $20,000 donation to SNAP, providing energy assistance to hundreds of our members.
• Employees participate in Junior League of Spokane’s Touch-A-Truck program. This year it will be on Sept. 24 at Spokane Community College.
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• 18 - $1,000 college scholarships awarded to member’s children. • Sponsored several community sports teams, along with participating in livestock auctions and 4H groups to support our incredible youth. Together we can all make a difference!
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