Wright-Hennepin Members Donate $48,000 To Local Organizations

Rockford, Minn. (November 5, 2026) — Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association (WH) members who participate in Operation Round Up (ORU) donated grants totaling $48,000 in October. ORU has awarded more than $5.9 million to local organizations since it began in 1994.

Approximately 90% of WH’s members participate in the ORU program, allowing their electric bills to be rounded up to the next dollar. The rounded amount is then held in a trust fund. The ORU Board evaluates funding requests from local programs on a bimonthly basis.

Watch a video demonstrating the local impact of ORU at bit.ly/WH-ORU26.

The ORU trust board donated the following on behalf of WH members:

• $10,000, Grace Place Collaborative, funds to purchase reliable van for transportation of food.
• $10,000, Wright County 4H, funds to support Wright County’s new foodstand.
• $10,000, Senior Community Services, funds to support Crow River and Monticello seniors.
• $7,500, YMCA of the North, funds to support Camp Iduhapi camp scholarships.
• $5,000, Annandale Youth First, funds to support mentoring programs, including training, crafts, equipment, snacks, supplies and transportation.
• $4,000, Relate Counseling Center, funds to offset telehealth services gifted to needy.
• $1,500, STMA Robotics, funds to support cost of “build a bot” workshops with the Library.

Applications for the next round of funding are due December 1. Learn about the activities ORU supports and find the grant application by visiting whe.org/operation-round-up or emailing ORU Trust Administrator Lisa Zipp at oru@whe.org.

Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association is a member-owned, not-for-profit electric utility that provides power to rural Wright County and western Hennepin County. The cooperative has been a corporate citizen to the area since 1937 and currently serves more than 61,000 electric accounts. It is headquartered in Rockford, Minn.

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