Community
Swisher Electric Cooperative participates in numerous local activities as part of its guiding Commitment to Community principle. It has been a part of the communities it serves for nearly seventy years and continues to maintain an active role in community activities.
The cooperative and its employees routinely participate in:
- Local civic organizations 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 visits to Washington, D.C. via the Government-In-Action Youth Tour.
Swisher Electric and 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.
Swisher Electric Cooperative has launched SmallBizU to encourage small business development in our local communities. Co-op members will have complete access to 25 core courses at the SmallBizU website. Each course is about three hours long and they are free of charge.
SmallBizU focuses 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 Andy Stewart.