The Bond Madison's Rounding Up for Your Community
We are so appreciative of last year’s grant funds.
Popular book series work great in this 2 tiered carousel that has saved a lot of space for our expanding library!
Thanks again,
Miss Tina
Pocahontas Librarian
First of all I want to say “Thank you” for the Round Up donation. It is greatly appreciated. With the money we raise we buy gas cards to get applicants to doctors appointments and treatments. If an applicant needs a ride to treatments we have a couple different avenues open to us and we pay the bill. We buy IGA and Wayne’s cards to help with groceries. We also help with co-payments and some medical bills. In the past twenty years we have helped at least 250 families. We just had our Celebration of Life on Saturday September 16th. There were over 400 luminaries set up remembering family and friends that had cancer. I am attaching a photo in another email. On Thursday September 21st we have the survivor dinner free to all cancer survivors and their caregivers that wish to come.
Again Thank you for the donation.
Karen Kessinger Applicant Liason
On behalf of the Simple Room families, kids and staff THANK YOU for your generous support of our summer program, Project 24. Gifts like yours help us to provide meaningful summer experiences for kids, Kin-8th grade. We also employ H.S. students to help us run the program and gifts help us to pay these students. Our summer program offers classes three times a week in the following subjects: reading, math, typing, recreation. We also offer the following electives once a week: art, STEM projects, garden, hiking, frisbee, volleyball, scrapbooking, baking, science, international club and basketball. Thanks again!
Hannah Cowman
Director of Development
Below are some pictures from the ArtBus event held at the Rte 66 creamery in Hamel that Bond Madison’s Rounding Up contribution helped us to fund! Our featured project that day turned card board strips and up-cycled bottle caps and beads to make animal ‘clackers’ or noise makers. Our motto at the MAC is ‘Art to All.’ With the ArtBus we are able to promote creative development and provide art education opportunities in smaller communities that are often overlooked. Thank you so much for making what we do possible!
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Macoupin Art Collective
115 E Main St
Staunton, IL 62088
(618)635-2015 macart.org
Rounding Up For Your Community
Thanks to the generosity of our Bond Madison Water Company (BMWC) members, $4550.00 has been given back to Not for Profit and Charitable organizations in our general service territory since the program’s inception in 2020.
Rounding up for your Community is just what its name implies. Rounding up funds are generated through a voluntary rounding up of members’ water bills to the nearest dollar. This change is used to assist and provide monetary assistance to not for profit/charitable organizations in our service area.
For those who participate in Rounding up program, the rounding up results in an average donation of approximately $ 6.00 per year. No contribution will exceed $ 12.00 per account per year. We hope every BMWC member will participate. When more members contribute, more help can be given! If you would like to participate in the payment rounding program, please email: lori@bondmadison.com or by simply checking the box on your payment remittance stub.
2023 Rounding up for your Community $$ have been awarded to:
Pocahontas School Library
Bond County Core Community (YCM)
Pocahontas Little League
Pleasant Mound Community Center
The Simple Room
Bond County Humane Society
Partners for Pets Humane Society
Macoupin Art Collective
Leaps of Love
Lemuel Rhodes Cancer Foundation
Bond County Law Enforcement Assoc.
If you are an organization that needs assistance, please apply for $$. Applications can be completed by tax-exempt organizations/charity groups. Blank applications are available below by clicking on “Round up Application” Completed applications can be submitted by: Mailing to – BMWC, P.O. Box 287, Pocahontas, IL 62275 Fax – (618) 669-0222 or Email – marty@bondmadison.com
