{"id":49510,"date":"2025-11-12T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=49510"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:06:47","slug":"paulding-putnam-members-donate-13387-to-17-local-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/paulding-putnam-members-donate-13387-to-17-local-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulding Putnam Members Donate $13,387 to 17 Local Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Continental Parents of Pirates received a $700 donation from Paulding Putnam\u2019s Operation Round Up program to help cover expenses for their end-of-year field day.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Members of Paulding Putnam recently donated $13,387 to seventeen local charities and community projects through the cooperative\u2019s Operation Round Up program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the 80% of members who round up their electric bill and donate to this fund, Paulding Putnam has provided more than $778,819 to northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana communities since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participating members round up their monthly electric bill to the next dollar, with the extra pennies being used to help fund charities and groups in their communities. Each quarter, the funds are dispensed to local causes that applied for funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most recent donation recipients include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Continental Parents of Pirates (POP): $700 to help cover expenses for their end-of-year field day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Continental Volunteer Fire Dept. Association: $1,950 to purchase an AED<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Crestview Early Childhood Center: $500 to purchase items for their Trunk-or-Treat event<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Defiance County Historical Society: $500 to restore the Wabash Railroad Boxcar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Defiance Soil & Water Conservation District: $500 to install an outdoor message board with a pet waste bag dispenser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Family Promise of Lima \u2013 Allen County: $1,650 to purchase air mattresses, sheets, and bed bug covers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Marquardt Lutheran Church: $1,000 to purchase backpacks with school supplies for Heritage Elementary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding County Economic Development: $500 to purchase items for the Youth Business Showcase<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding County Hospital Foundation: $500 to provide support and education materials for the BBQ chicken luncheon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding County Opportunity Center: $500 to purchase food pantry items for students<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding Elementary: $400 to support their field trip to Weller Farms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding Exempted Village Schools: $500 to support installing 15 little libraries at key community locations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding High School Blessings in a Bag: $1,287 to provide weekend meal bags for students in need<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Van Wert County Humane Society: $400 to help cover costs for spay\/neuter vet clinics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Van Wert County Victims Services: $500 to cover printing materials<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Van Wert Elks Lodge: $1,500 to purchase a defibrillator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Woodlan Band Boosters: $500 to purchase props, including fences and benches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos of each recipient can be found on Paulding Putnam\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Round Up was started in 2010 as a way to give back to Paulding Putnam\u2019s communities. Groups in both Ohio and Indiana can apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizations can apply for Operation Round Up assistance by contacting Paulding Putnam\u2019s Marketing and Communications Manager, Samantha Kuhn, at skuhn@ppec.coop or visiting www.ppec.coop\/operation-round. If you want to participate by rounding up your monthly bill, call Paulding Putnam\u2019s office at 800-686-2357. The average member\u2019s donation is about $6 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of Paulding Putnam recently donated $13,387 to seventeen local charities and community projects through the cooperative\u2019s Operation Round Up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Continental-Parents-of-Pirates-ORU-donation-Oct-2025.jpeg?fit=1016%2C763&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cSy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:35:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49512,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510\/revisions\/49512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}