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Wheatland Electric awards n Sharing Success Funds to four organizations
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COURTESY PHOTO Kans for Kids Fighting Cancer, based in Hoisington and serving Barton, Pawnee, Rice and Russell counties, was championed by fans and followers on Wheatland’s Facebook page to win a $1,000 Sharing Success grant during our Giving Goodness Charity Challenge. Pictured here are Mary Hoisington, member services and key accounts manager at Wheatland (left), who is presenting a check to Christy Herber, executive director for Kans for Kids.

SCOTT CITY – Wheatland Electric announced this week the winner of Wheatland Electric Cooperative Inc.’s Giving Goodness Charity Challenge is Kans for Kids Fighting Cancer in Barton County. 

The non-profit organization based in Hoisington assists children who are living with cancer and is the recipient of a $1,000 Sharing Success grant. The organization was championed by Wheatland Electric’s cooperative membership and Facebook fans and followers through multiple rounds of online voting during the Giving Goodness contest held entirely on social media from Oct. 25 through Nov. 12. 

In addition, three other Giving Goodness finalists also received Sharing Success grants. They include Finney County United Way’s Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which received a $500 grant; Hamilton County VIP Senior Center, located in Syracuse, which received a $250 grant; and the Grow and Learn Childcare Center, located in Leoti, which also received $250 in Sharing Success funds. 

To engage their membership and promote two of their cooperative principles (democratic member control and concern for community), they turned the decision-making power over to their membership in this grant selection process. Throughout the contest, co-op members and followers were encouraged to nominate and vote for a deserving non-profit or charitable organization within the service territory and rally friends and family to do the same.