Dominion Energy awards $50,000 grant to USO South Carolina
December 4, 2017
Grant will fund Operation Read and Feed, Holiday Holdover Troops and Operation Snack Attack programs
Today, December 4th, Dominion Energy awarded a $50,000 grant to USO South Carolina in support of three USO programs supporting service members serving throughout the state.
“The USO connects service members to family, home and country,” said Joanie Thresher, Director of USO South Carolina. “Thanks to the generosity of Dominion Energy and the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, the USO South Carolina will be able to grow our programs and connect thousands of service members through three programs to the people and things service members love most.”
Kristen Beckham, External Affairs for Dominion Energy, poses with USO South Carolina staff, supporters, volunteers, advisory council members, service members, and Columbia Metropolitan Airport staff and commission celebrate the donation
Operation Read and Feed is a two-part program that serves thousands of service members each year through Camp McCrady Training Center. Operation Read and Feed offers deploying service members a barbeque lunch and an opportunity to record themselves reading their child’s favorite story, and then have that recording shipped home for their children to enjoy during deployment.
Each year during the holiday season, special events are planned for Fort Jackson’s holiday holdover troops. Because they are far from home, the USO South Carolina designs events to show the service members their community supports them. Operation Snack Attack provides a taste of home to service members visiting each of the USO South Carolina’s three centers.
“Many of our brave servicemen and women begin their military careers in South Carolina and have a continued presence in our state throughout their military service,” said Kristen Beckham, External Affairs for Dominion Energy. “Dominion Energy and the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation are pleased to support the USO’s efforts to provide and expand important safety nets and comfort for active military and veterans.”
About Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered in Richmond, is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy. The Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation is dedicated to improving the physical, social and economic well-being of the communities served by Dominion Energy. The Foundation supports nonprofit causes that meet basic human needs, protect the environment, promote education and encourage community vitality. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.DominionEnergy.com.
About the USO South Carolina
USO South Carolina provides a home away from home and a sense of community for over 100,000 service members annually by offering a safe, comfortable, and relaxing lounge as they travel through the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. In addition to the center inside the Columbia Airport, the USO South Carolina serves the military population training at McCrady Training Center with a dayroom and USO in a Box, as well as military applicants at the Military Entrance Processing Station Fort Jackson. USO South Carolina also offers morale-boosting and family-strengthening programs, deployment and redeployment support to help servicemen and women adjust to the duty ahead, resiliency training for families facing multiple deployments, discreet and compassionate escorts and other support for Families of the Fallen. For more information on how you can join our patriotic mission, please visit southcarolina.uso.org.
