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Fall Community Fund Grants Announced

December 02, 2019

Over the years, Midwest Energy’s Community Fund has distributed nearly $2 million in grant funds to educational, charitable and nonprofit organizations in the Midwest Energy service area.  Each of the co-op’s five service areas has a committee of two Midwest Energy employees and five to seven community members from the area which review applications and make funding decisions.  

Five men look at a zero-entry physical therapy pool at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville, Kansas, while one man explains its operation.
(L to R) Justin Thummel, Physical Therapy Assistant at Rooks County Health Center, joins Bob Muirhead, MWE’s Vice President of Customer Service; Wayne Madison, Journeyman Gas Maint. at Stockton; Holden Jones, Apprentice Gas Maint. at Stockton, and Brandon Pfanenstiel, Journeyman Gas Maint. at Plainville, as Eric Sumearll, Director of Rooks County Healthcare Foundation, explains the facility’s new zero-entry physical therapy pool. The Foundation received a $5,000 Impact Grant in November for new equipment.

For Fall 2019, a total of 137 applications from 47 communities, representing 27 counties were received.  The committees approved $98,224 for 114 projects.  Of that amount, $73,244 was in the form of traditional grants up to $1,000.  Also awarded were five $5,000 “Impact Grants,” one from each of the five areas.  Impact Grants require a local community fund match, which varies by project.  Receiving the $5,000 impact grants were:  

Colby - Purchase of poverty resolution project curriculum for Northwest Kansas Core Circles.

Great Bend - New equipment and patient comfort items at Rooks County Hospital.

Hays - Arc of the Central Plains - Equipment for Accessible Recreation Complex.

Phillipsburg - Playground equipment and ground cover at the City of Norton pool.

Scott City - Weskan Community Building lighting. Applications for the Spring 2020 Community Fund grants are due March 1, 2020, and can be completed online.