South River EMC is proud to provide a means for customers to help the community where they live – and it proves that small change changes lives. Below are some of the organizations and schools that have received funding in the past 12 months.

If you would like to know more about Operation Round Up, please contact the Cooperative, or view some of our current grants and information on applying for an Operation Round Up grant on this page.

Where Does the Money Go?

A few of these grant recipients have been featured in issues of Carolina Country.

Non-Profit Agencies

2024

December 2024

Disabled American Veteran's Chapter 74- $5,000
Life Line of Sampson County, Inc.- $5,000
Wade Community Fire Department- $3,500
Janice Faye's Ranch Inc.- $3,500
Sampson County Partnership for Children- $5,000

September 2024

Groundswell Pictures- $5,000
Better Health of Cumberland County, Inc.- $5,000
Dunn United Ministerial Association- $5,000
Spivey's Corner Volunteer Fire & Rescue- $5,000
Vann Crossroads Fire Department- $4,800
South Wake Conservationists, NC Wildlife Federation- $2,500
Bethany Rural Fire Department- $4,900

June 2024

Buddy Back Pack Program for Harnett County, Inc.- $5,000.00
Beaver Dam Volunteer Fire Department-$5,732.00
Sampson County 4H- $2,677.00
Transitions Life Care, Founded as Hospice of Wake County Inc.- $10,000.00
Salem Methodist Afterschool Hours "SMASH"- $5,000.00
Triangle South Literacy Works- $5,000.00
Plain View Community Center-$5,000.00
Boone Trail Emergency Services- $5,000.00
Eastover Volunteer Fire Department Inc.- $5,100.00

March 2024

Dunn Emergency Services- $5,000
ECHO (Erwin Churches Helping Others)- $5,000
Clement Volunteer Fire Dept.- $5,730
Westarea Volunteer Fire Dept.- $4,505
Mingo Masonic Lodge- $1,100
Five N Two Food Pantry-$5,000

2023

December 2023

Sampson County Partnership for Children- $9,362
Falcon Children's Home & Family Services- $4,760
Disabled American Veterans - Ch 74- $5,000
Janice Faye's Ranch, Inc.-$3,055
Cotton Volunteer Fire Department- $3,800
Johnston County Arts Council- $3,000
Fayetteville Area Operation Inasmuch- $5,000

Salvation Army Cumberland County- $5,000
Second Harvest Food Bank- $5,000
Salvation Army of Goldsboro- $5,000

September 2023

GroundSwell Pictures- $5,000
Beaver Dam Volunteer Fire Department- $6,072
Cumberland County Fire Marshal’s Office- $4,912
Transitions LifeCare- $10,000
Wade Community Fire Department Inc.- $5,800
Vann Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department Inc.- $3,300
Lillington United Methodist Church Community Garden Project- $4,900
Bethany Rural Fire Department- $4,433
Suttontown EMS Inc.- $3,836
Harnett County Chiefs Association, $6,200
Flat Branch Volunteer Fire Department, $5,000

June 2023

Spivey's Corner Volunteer Fire Department- $3,617
Halls Fire & Rescue-$5,000
Eastover Volunteer Fire Department Inc.- $5,000
Gray's Creek Volunteer Fire Department Station 24- $5,000
Simply Girls- $5,000
Triangle Literacy Works- $5,000
Salem Preschool and Childcare-$5,000
Sampson County Emergency Services-$5,000
Salemburg Volunteer Fire Department- $5,000
Dunn Area Ministerial Association- $5,000
Boone Trail Emergency Services- $5,000

March 2023

Mingo Masonic Lodge- $1,079
Five N Two Food Pantry- $5,000
The Fun Clothes Inc.- $5,000
Westarea Volunteer Fire Department- $4,100
Plain View Community Center- $5,000
Autryville Fire Department- $5,500

2022

December 2022

Disabled American Veterans Chapter 74- $5,000
Fayetteville Area Operation Inasmuch- $5,000
Sampson County Partnership for Children- $5,000
Dunn Police Athletic & Activities League- $5,000
Janice Faye's Ranch Inc.- $9,470
Special Olympics NC- Cumberland, Harnett and Johnston counties- $5,000
Johnston County Arts Council- $2,500

September 2022

Lillington Fire Department/ Flatwoods Community Fire District- $5,000
Cumberland County Fire Marshal's Office- $4,911
Better Health of Cumberland County- $5,000
Transtions LifeCare- $10,000
First Tee- Sandhills- $3,352
Clement Volunteer Fire Department- $6,250
LUMC Community Garden Project- $2,560
Gray's Creek Volunteer Fire Department, Station 18- $5,135
Bethany Rural Fire Department & Emergency Response Inc.- $4,880

June 2022

Roseboro Rescue & EMS Inc.- $6,255
Eastover Fire Department- $6,495
SMASH "Salem Methodist After School Hours"- $5,000
Wade Community Fire Department Inc.- $5,900
Boone Trail Emergency Services- $5,000
Triangle South Literacy Works- $5,000
Beaver Dam Fire Department- $6,731

March 2022

Plain View Community Center- $5,000*
Five And Two Food Pantry- $10,000*
Spivey's Corner Volunteer Fire & Rescue- $4,800
Gray's Creek Ruritan Club- $5,000

2021

December 2021

Disabled American Veterans, NC Chapter 74-$5,000
Dunn Police Athletic and Activities League- $5,000
South Wake Conservationists, Chapter of NCWF- $5,000
Special Olympics North Carolina- $5,000
Mingo Masonic Lodge- $1,265
Stedman Volunteer Fire Department- $5,395
Salemburg Volunteer Fire Department- $5,000
Human Connections Fund- $10,000

September 2021

Fayetteville Operation Inasmuch- $5,000
Cumberland County Fire Marshal's Office- $4,989
Better Health of Cumberland County- $5,000
Transitions LifeCare- $5,000
Gray's Creek Volunteer Fire Department Station 18- $5,000
Dunn Emergency Services- $5,000

June 2021

First Tee- Sandhills- $1,282
Beaver Dam Volunteer Fire Dept.- $4,974.54
Janice Faye's Ranch Inc.- $4,100
Eastover Volunteer Fire Dept. Inc.- $6,500
Salem Preschool and Childcare- $5,000
Clement Fire Department- $5,761
Bethany Rural Fire Dept. and Emergency Response Inc.- $5,000
Beacon Rescue Mission- $5,000
Flat Branch Volunteer Fire Department- $5,000

March 2021

Five and Two Food Pantry- $3,752
Boone Trail Emergency Services- $5,000
Wade Community Fire Department Inc.- $6,034
Plain View Community Center- $5,000
Simply Girls inc.- $5,000

2020

December 2020

Special Olympics NC- Harnett, Cumberland, Sampson, Johnston and Bladen Counties- $5,000
Dunn Police Athletic & Activities League- $5,000
Disabled American Veterans- Chapter 74 Erwin- $5,000
Armed Services YMCA Fort Bragg-$2,200

September 2020