Compeer Financial Distributing Funds for COIVD-19 Relief Efforts
Monday, April 13th, 2020 -- 8:32 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The Sun Prairie-based Compeer Financial announced it is dedicating $830,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts across the cooperative's three-state territory of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.Chief Mission Officer John Monson says the support includes donations to local community foundations for response efforts, grants for organizations and emergency response providers, funding for local foodbanks, donations to rural healthcare facilities and more. The funding for these donations comes from the Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America and the organization's newly established Agriculture and Rural Initiative. As a part of these efforts, the Fund for Rural America will open up two grants in the coming months.
The application for Compeer's general use grant will open May 1, with a deadline of May 31. Applications for the emergency response equipment grant program for volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance departments will open on August 1 and are due by August 31. Priority will be given to projects and initiatives related to COVID-19 response efforts.
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