Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service states
The internet provider, a Cable One brand, takes applications through Oct. 31 for $125,000 in grants for education and digital literacy, hunger relief and community development. Recipients will be named in December.
Phoenix. Sparklight, the high-speed internet and mobile provider owned by Cable One, began taking applications on Oct. 1 for the fall round of its Charitable Giving Fund. Nonprofit organizations in the 24 states the company serves have until Oct. 31 to apply, and the company said it will announce the recipients in December.
The fund gives $250,000 a year in two rounds of $125,000 each, one in the spring and one in the fall. Since it was set up in 2020, the company says, it has made more than $1.3 million in grants to more than 300 nonprofit organizations.
Who can apply
The fall announcement, dated Oct. 1 in Phoenix, where the company is based, opens the round to 501(c)(3) organizations located in Sparklight's service area. The company's June release on its spring grants described a slightly wider field: 501(c)(3) nonprofits, 170(c)(1) organizations, and select schools and government or municipal entities that operate in its service territories and run programs in line with the fund's priorities.
Those priorities are three: education and digital literacy, hunger relief and food insecurity, and community development. The company says earlier grants have also gone to child and senior advocacy, housing and rent assistance, workforce development, and programs for veterans and for people with disabilities.
What the spring round paid for
In the spring round, announced June 22, Sparklight said it gave more than $125,000 to 28 organizations in 11 states, from Alabama and Arizona to Texas. Its list included food banks and pantries, YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs, a court appointed special advocate program, an animal shelter and a church soup kitchen. The company did not give the amount of each grant.
The fall announcement points to one earlier recipient as an example: Southeastern Arizona Community Unique Services, known as SEACUS, in Safford, Ariz., which the company said received $7,500 to deliver meals and wellness checks to homebound seniors and adults with disabilities.
The application and the list of communities the company serves are on Sparklight's website.
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