Employees Rally on #GivingTuesday - $43,748 for United Way

Dec. 1, 2015: Central FL SECO Energy places huge emphasis on one of its most important cooperative principles concern for community. Throughout November and culminating Dec. 1 #GivingTuesday - its employees participated in a Trifecta of Giving opportunity to serve as community partners in the not-for-profit cooperatives seven-county service territory.

In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, SECOs community-minded employees are giving to the Toys for Tots program; delivering food for local kids weekend backpack programs, and donating to United Way campaigns that support Central Florida counties.

SECO employees have pledged a grand total of $43,748 to the 2016 United Way campaigns in the co-ops service territory. Pledges for the counties SECO Energy serves:

Lake & Sumter Counties $26,346

Marion County . $10,072

Citrus County . $4,835

Other counties .$2,495

SECO Energy CEO Jim Duncan said, Through the Trifecta of Giving, we have an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of members in need. Whether its through any of the three methods of giving United Way monetary donations, Toys for Tots, or food for hungry kids over the weekend we are positively impacting the lives of children and adults in need.

The magnitude of our employees generous contributions demonstrates their strong commitment to the citizens of the communities we serve, said SECO Deputy Director of Civic, Charitable & Government Affairs Kathy Judkins. To learn more, search for #GivingTuesdayCFL (Central Florida).

If you are a SECO member who would like to round up your electric bill to the nearest dollar to support our cooperatives Pennies from Heaven program, email customerservice@secoenergy.com to enroll or learn more about becoming a SECO Angel. The extra pennies are used to provide support to local social service agencies that help SECO members with unique needs.

SECO Energy is a not-for-profit electric cooperative serving nearly 200,000 consumers across the Florida counties of Sumter, Citrus, Marion, Lake, Levy, Pasco and Hernando. SECO is the third largest electric co-op in Florida and the seventh largest in the nation. SECO's wholesale power provider is Seminole Electric, one of the largest generation and transmission cooperatives in the nation, serving 1.4 million consumers in Florida. Seminole is owned by nine electric distribution cooperatives, and SECO is one of those nine member-owners. In addition to ranking highest in customer satisfaction in the 2015 J.D. Power study, SECOs 2014 ACSI score is 89.