Abraham Fyffe of Chapman High School helps Jaxson White-Mintz shop for a special gift. Broad River Electric Cooperative congratulates three local athletes who played on the winning team in the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl on Dec. 10 in Myrtle Beach. […]
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BREC awards Bright Ideas grants to teachers
Recognizing that teachers often have the right perspective to shape their students’ classroom experiences, Broad River Electric Cooperative and our Charities Board offer Bright Ideas Educator Grants to local teachers to help make their visions a reality. In October, Broad […]
Ready for an experience you won’t forget?
Your co-op has two amazing trips planned this summer. Juniors: Apply for the Washington Youth Tour. Sophomores: Apply for the Cooperative Youth Summit. Juniors: Experience Washington, D.C., with hundreds of students from across South Carolina and the country, meeting lawmakers […]
BREC members give back
Jane Gee of Carlisle-Foster’s Grove Elementary School in Chesnee with supplies donated to the school by BREC through Operation Round Up. John Fowler, vice president of Member Services, delivers supplies to Assistant Principal Kim Helle at Northwest Elementary School in […]
Players named for the 2022 Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl
The state’s top high school football players will face off one last time this season in the 2022 Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 10. The annual north-south game, organized by the S.C. Athletic Coaches Association, takes place […]
School supplies giveaway
Broad River Electric is already gearing up to send kids back to school this month. To help our members and their families prepare, the cooperative’s School Supply Project is providing students from across our service area with basic school needs […]
Boiling Springs nonprofit helps refugees
Marcia and David Trott stand in front of the Boiling Springs Warehouse that stores household goods donated to help refugees and families in crisis. Five years ago, Broad River Electric members David and Marcia Trott went to the World Relief […]
Operation Round Up donations
In May, the Broad River Electric Charities Board approved $30,300 in donations to nonprofit organizations serving Cherokee, Spartanburg, and Union counties. Donations ranging from $800 to $3,000 were made to: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate Broad River Leathernecks […]
Annual Meeting snapshots
Broad River Electric’s 2022 Annual Meeting was a success, with 1,703 members taking part in drive-thru registration and voting. Here are a few photo highlights from the three-day event. Click this icon (below the slideshow) for photo captions:
Broad River Electric & Charity Board Announce New Grant Program
Broad River Electric Cooperative and it’s Charities Board are pleased to announce the formation of the Bright Ideas Educator Grants, which will be awarded in the fall of 2021 to educators in Cherokee, Spartanburg & Union counties. The grant program […]