PHOENIX, June 30,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cable
One® recently awarded $125,000 in grants to nonprofit organizations in
need across its 24-state footprint through the company's Charitable
Giving Fund.
The Charitable Giving Fund, which annually awards $250,000 in grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organizations in communities served by the Cable One family of
brands (Sparklight®, Fidelity Communications, Hargray,
ValuNet Fiber and CableAmerica), concentrates support in the
following priority areas:
- Education and Digital Literacy
- Food Insecurity
- Community Development
"We are committed to helping strengthen the cities and towns
where we live and work by giving back to the organizations that do
so much to support our communities," said Julie Laulis, Cable One President and CEO.
"While our grant recipients are all working to meet different
needs, their underlying goals align with Cable One's core values of
lending a hand and doing right by those we serve. We are honored to
contribute to the efforts of these organizations."
Twenty-five nonprofit organizations received grants during Cable
One's most recent award period, including Valley Community &
Senior Center in Clarkston,
Washington and Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Foundation in
Fargo, North Dakota.
The Valley Community & Senior Center offers low-cost meals,
frozen meals, home delivery meals, health care services, beauty and
barber shop services and a full range of social activities for
adults over 21 in the Lewis-Clark Valley area of Washington State.
"We provide more than 40,000 seniors, low-income adults,
families, and veterans with on-site and in-home meals annually,"
said Valley Community Center's Robert
Burton. "The Sparklight funding will help us continue to
provide this service for vulnerable residents in our
community."
Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Foundation will use the grant to help
build a natural playground along the Red River that will allow
children to immerse themselves in nature year-round. An
aesthetically beautiful addition to the community, this all-season
play area will use boulders, trees, shrubs, logs, rocks, nets and
other natural elements to provide children with physically
challenging, unstructured play opportunities that will challenge
and develop every part of their minds, bodies and spirits.
"This Sparklight grant will be used for the construction of an
outdoor play area intended to help children reap the mental and
physical health benefits of unstructured free play," said Board
Member and Project Chair Heather
Ranck. "Children, particularly children from lower-income
families, increasingly do not have access to the unstructured free
play that develops their creativity, social skills and resilience,
and this grant will help us address that. Sparklight's grant is
critical in bringing the dream of a high-impact play area to life.
Thank you for your significant support of this project!"
Nonprofit organizations may apply for a grant during open
application periods each spring and fall. Applications for fall
2023 grants will be accepted between October
1-31, 2023.
The Charitable Giving Fund is an extension of Cable One's
existing corporate social responsibility efforts, which
include:
- Supporting national organizations dedicated to advancing
education and diversity, including the Emma Bowen Foundation
and the National Diversity Council.
- Supporting the mission of Special Olympics, which provides
year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of
Olympic-type sports, as well as health, arts, leadership, and
advocacy programs for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities.
- Planting trees through the Arbor Day Foundation on behalf
of customers who switch to paperless billing. Since 2015, the
company has planted 130,000 trees in its markets and national
forests within the company's footprint.
- Supporting the mission of Keep America Beautiful in
cleaning up and beautifying communities across the U.S.
- Raising funds for Feed My Starving Children to make a
difference in the lives of hungry kids around the world. Since
2018, Cable One has donated more than 46 tons of food to local food
banks and nearly $400,000 to address
food insecurity.
For more information about the Cable One Charitable Giving Fund,
please visit www.sparklight.com/charitablegiving.
About Cable One
Cable One, Inc. is a leading broadband
communications provider committed to connecting customers and
communities to what matters most. Through Sparklight®
and the associated Cable One family of brands, the Company serves
more than 1.1 million residential and business customers in 24
states. Powered by a fiber-rich network, the Cable One family of
brands provide residential customers with a wide array of
connectivity and entertainment services, including Gigabit speeds,
advanced WiFi and video. For businesses ranging from small and
mid-market up to enterprise, wholesale and carrier, the Company
offers scalable, cost-effective solutions that enable businesses of
all sizes to grow, compete and succeed.
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