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.