Swisher Electric Cooperative participates in numerous local activities as part of its guiding Commitment to Community principal. It has been a part of the communities it serves for nearly seventy years and continues to maintain a active role in community activities.

The Cooperative and its employees routinely participates in:

• local civic orgaizations and activities
• local 4-H and FFA organizations
• gradeschool, middle school and high school electric safety education and training
• local scholarship awards and programs
• sponsoring student visist Washington, D.C. with the Government-in-Action Youth Tour

Swisher Electric & Touchstone Energy Introduce SmallBizU

First in its kind, SmallBizU is an eLearning University dedicated to providing local entrepreneurs and small businesses with the real world tools and information they need to be successful.

SmallBizU is being launched by Swisher Electric Cooperative to encourage small business development in our local communities. Free of charge, co-op members will have complete access to 25 core courses, each ranging about three hours long, at the SmallBizU Web site www.smallbizu.org/nreca/homepage.htm

SmallBizU will focus on delivering state-of-the-art small business education with courses featuring the 3Ms: Money, Marketing, and Management. Co-op consumer-members will be able to click on the SmallBizU icon and go straight to a self-tutorial that covers every facet of small business start-ups. It's value-added for members and will provide opportunities for those who want to launch a small business, entrepreneurs, youngsters interested in starting their own enterprise, retired members with an idea and graduate students.

For more information on the SmallBizU program, contact Mary Matsler.