Stearns Electric’s 15th Annual Fall Employee Charity Event donated $5,845 to the INDY Foundation in November.
Stearns Electric employees vote each year on an organization of their choice to receive the proceeds from our Employee Charity Event and this year, the selected organization was the INDY Foundation.
The Co-op has very generous employees who not only donated items to the silent auction, but also bid on those items, and participated in raffles and meat raffles.
In this one-day event, held Thursday, Nov. 17, employees raised $4,845. Along with a $1,000 match by the Stearns Electric Board of Directors, a nearly $6,000 donation was made to the INDY Foundation to help people battling cancer right here in our Central Minnesota communities.
INDY Foundation Founder Kayla Keenan spoke to employees about the organization and their important work the day of the charity event. Keenan then returned on Nov. 29 for the official check presentation.
Stearns Electric and its employees also crossed a major donation milestone in 2022. Since the inception of the charity event in 2008, more than $50,000 has been donated on behalf of Co-op employees and the Board of Directors to 15 worthy organizations who are making significant impacts in our communities.