Deadline for Federated Operation Round Up funding is next month

The next deadline to apply for Operation Round Up funding from Federated Rural Electric’s Trust Board is Feb. 13.

Operation Round Up involves about 75 percent of Federated's members in Jackson and Martin counties; they allow their monthly electric bills to be rounded up to the nearest dollar amount. The "rounded up" change goes into a trust fund. An independent trust board, which consists of Federated members, evaluates local funding requests and distributes the funds.

The application form can be downloaded from Federated’s website: www.federatedrea.coop. The recipients will be announced in April. Since 1995 Federated's Trust Board has distributed more than $1 million to local organizations including senior dining, hospice, schools, fire/ambulance departments and as high school scholarships.