8 Hall nonprofits to share in $107K+ from JEMC Foundation

The Jackson EMC (JEMC) Foundation recently awarded $107,500 in grants to nonprofit organizations in the electric co-op’s service area – including eight that serve Hall County.

Those eight are the Red Cross, Bethel Haven, Eagle Ranch, and Step by Step Recovery, $10,000 each, and Acceptance Recovery Center, Fresh Wind Recovery Ministry, NSPIRE Outreach Ministries, and Palm House Recovery Centers, $7,500 each.

Click here to read about the work of each of these groups and also see a full list of all grants that were recently approved by the foundation board: 2025 March JEMCO News by Jackson EMC – Issuu

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.