Fidelity Awards $5,000 to Lawton Mobile Meals

 

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Fidelity Awards $5,000 to Lawton Mobile Meals

March 3, 2023 – Lawton, Okla. – Fidelity Communications recently awarded a $5,000 grant to Lawton Mobile Meals through Cable One’s Charitable Giving Fund. Twenty-eight non-profit organizations across Cable One’s 24-state footprint received grants totaling more than $110,000 during the company’s most recent award period.

 

Lawton Mobile Meals helps meet the basic needs of residents who are homebound due to age or disability.

 

“Our organization aims to meet the needs of some of homebound residents in our community by providing personal items like toiletries, paper towels, dish liquid, blankets for warmth or fans for cooling, and items like fresh fruit,” said Program Manager Belinda Anderson. “This grant money will be used to provide meals for the community we serve, many of whom are struggling because of the rise of rent and medication costs.”

 

The Charitable Giving Fund, which annually awards nearly $250,000 in grants to local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations served by the Cable One family of brands (Sparklight®, Fidelity Communications, Hargray, ValuNet Fiber and CableAmerica), concentrates support in the following priority areas:

 

• Education and Digital Literacy
• Food Insecurity
• Community Development

Nonprofit organizations have the opportunity to apply for a grant during open application periods each spring and fall. Applications for spring 2023 grants will open between April 1-30, 2023.

 

The Charitable Giving Fund is an extension of the company’s existing corporate social responsibility efforts, which include:

 

• Supporting national organizations dedicated to advancing education and diversity, including the Emma Bowen Foundation and the National Diversity Council. 
• Supporting the mission of Special Olympics, which provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports, as well as health, arts, and leadership and advocacy programs for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. 
• Planting trees through the Arbor Day Foundation on behalf of customers who switch to paperless billing. By the end of 2022, the company planted 120,000 trees in its markets and national forests.
• Supporting the mission of Keep America Beautiful in cleaning up and beautifying communities across the U.S. 
• Addressing food insecurity across its footprint through the donation of more than 46 tons of food and nearly $400,00 since 2018.