Wheatland Electric Awards $1,000 Sharing Success Grant to Golden Belt Community Foundation

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GREAT BEND – Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc. announced today that its Sharing Success Fund, managed by the Scott Community Foundation, has awarded a $1,000 grant to the Golden Belt Community Foundation. The Golden Belt Community Foundation will use this Sharing Success grant money to continue providing matching funds that encourage community members to give generously on Giving Tuesday (December 1, 2020), as well as helping with expenses incurred by migrating to a new virtual giving platform.  Last year the Golden Belt Community Foundation raised over $200,000 in a single month with over 450 gifts that were received for Giving Tuesday.

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Regan Reif, Member Services and Key Accounts Manager at Wheatland Electric presents a $1,000 Sharing Success grant check to Christy Tustin, Executive Director of the Golden Belt Community Foundation.

The Scott Community Foundation began formally accepting applications for grants from the Wheatland Electric Sharing Success Fund from non-profit organizations on December 1, 2012.  Wheatland Electric and CoBank have each contributed $7,500 this year to the fund and $5,000 in years past.  The program will continue to run until the funds are exhausted.  Non-profit groups interested in receiving funding from the Wheatland Electric Sharing Success Fund should contact Alli Conine, Manager of Member Services & Corporate Communications, at 620-874-4563 or aconine@weci.net.

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Delivering Energy for Life – Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc., a member owned distribution cooperative headquartered in Scott City, KS, was established in 1948 as a distribution and power cooperative, in the state of Kansas. Today, Wheatland Electric serves more than 33,000 electric meters in 17 different counties and maintains over 4,000 miles of distribution power lines across western and southcentral Kansas. Together, with the help of our members, Wheatland Electric is committed to building a better and stronger rural America. For more information visit www.weci.net.