The Community Grants Program is a special project of People Helping People, made possible because its partnership with co-op lender CoBank. CoBank recently awarded $7,500 to PHP as part of its Sharing Success Matching Grant Program.

Sharing Success was started in 2012 as a way to give back to co-ops and the nonprofits they support. Under the program, CoBank allocates $4 million to match charitable contributions by cooperatives to nonprofit organizations in their local communities.

With Randolph EMC’s $7,500 contribution combined with CoBank’s $7,500 match, People Helping People is able to extend its charitable reach into the community with $15,000 for nonprofit agencies in 2020.

REMC believes it is important to serve a diverse population of the membership and the ultimate goal of the grant program is for PHP to extend its charitable reach into the community to support agencies who are providing vital services to our member-owners.

Registered 501(c)(3) organizations in Randolph, Moore, Montgomery, Chatham and Alamance counties are eligible to apply for funding up to $2,000.