FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sparklight Awards $7,000 to Joplin Nonprofit, Recovery Outreach Community Center
Feb. 24, 2023 – Joplin, MO– Sparklight®, a leading broadband communications provider, recently awarded a $7,000 grant to Recovery Outreach Community Center (ROC) through the company’s Charitable Giving Fund. Twenty-eight non-profit organizations across the company’s 24-state footprint received grants totaling more than $110,000 during the company’s most recent award period.
Recovery Outreach Community Center offers mental health, addiction support and long-term recovery support to the people of Jasper and Newton counties, providing resources and necessary skills or services needed to create a productive life. The grant will be used for equipment to continue outreach to local businesses and organizations to inform local employers of the economic, social and cultural benefits to providing a recovery-friendly workplace, and the benefit of seeking talent from those who are in recovery through its Recovery Friendly Workplaces program.
“We are so grateful to Sparklight for their generous grant to help us develop Recovery Friendly Workplaces,” said Teddy Steen, ROCC Executive Director. “I love the fact that Sparklight gives back to the nonprofit organizations in their local communities – they are a good partner to the communities that they serve.”
The Charitable Giving Fund, which annually awards nearly $250,000 in grants to local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations 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
Nonprofit organizations have the opportunity to apply for a grant during open application periods each spring and fall. Applications for spring 2023 grants will open between April 1-30, 2023.
The Charitable Giving Fund is an extension of the company’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, and 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. By the end of 2022, the company will have planted 120,000 trees in its markets and national forests.
- Supporting the mission of Keep America Beautiful in cleaning up and beautifying communities across the U.S.
- Addressing food insecurity across its footprint through the donation of more than 46 tons of food and nearly $400,00 since 2018.
For more information about the Sparklight Charitable Giving Fund, visit www.sparklight.com/charitablegiving.
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About Sparklight
Sparklight® is a leading broadband communications provider and part of the Cable One family of brands, which serves more than 1.1 million residential and business customers in 24 states. Sparklight provides consumers with a wide array of connectivity and entertainment services, including high-speed internet and advanced Wi-Fi solutions, cable television and phone service. Sparklight Business provides scalable and cost-effective products for businesses ranging in size from small to mid-market, in addition to enterprise, wholesale and carrier customers.
CONTACT:
Michelle Portillo
Director, Corporate Communications
michelle.portillo@cableone.biz