Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $4,800 of its Operation Round Up funds toDiscoveryCenterat Murfree Spring.

“We are delighted to receive this grant,” Billie Little, chief executive officer and founding director ofDiscoveryCenterat Murfree Spring said.  “These funds will help provide learning opportunities for the families of the MTEMC service area.”

Discovery Center at Murfree Spring is a hands-on museum and nature center.  Its mission is to inspire exploration, enhance learning, and build confidence through diverse programs and exhibits.

Operation Round Up began in 2003 and has distributed more than $5 million into MTEMC’s communities.

The initiative “rounds up” members’ bills to the next highest dollar, with that extra change set aside for worthy causes. It is the responsibility of the Customers Care Board, which is composed of seven MTEMC members, to evaluate grant requests and send the money back to qualifying organizations.

Incoming contributions are tracked by county so the Customers Care Board can do its best to ensure money contributed by members in a certain county goes to that county. Any balances are carried over each month.

MTE Customers Care funds may not be used for political or expressly religious purposes, schools or school-related organizations.