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PENDLETON â Umatilla County organizations have the opportunity to receive funding if they assist COVID-19 vaccination efforts as part of a new program to drive up the countyâs dismal vaccination rates.
The county health department created the âCommunity Rewards Program,â which the county board of commissioners unanimously approved at its meeting Wednesday, June 2.
The program will work by ZIP code and will be available for not-for-profit organizations, including fraternal, civic and religious organizations, though specific criteria are in development, officials say. The county will be one of the first in the state to make such an effort using incentives, according to Commissioner John Shafer.
NY Post: Kroger has stopped shoppers from donating money to the Indiana affiliate of a far-right militia group whose members were allegedly involved in this month’s Capitol riots.
The nation’s biggest supermarket chain said it was “dismayed” to find out the Indiana Oath Keepers was involved in its Community Rewards Program, which allows customers to direct funds to various nonprofit groups.
“Given the concerning nature of the allegations against this organization, we have immediately removed the group from receiving customer-directed funds,” Kroger said in a statement Wednesday. “Kroger has not directed any corporate grants or charitable dollars to the organization.”
Kroger unwittingly contributed to Indiana militia group Oath Keepers, grocer pledges review of support to nonprofits Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer
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Kroger has yanked an Indiana nonprofit from a list of community organizations eligible for charitable donations by the company after it learned it had unwittingly supported an anti-government militia group.
Kroger on Wednesday pledged to review nonprofits receiving support and purge groups it doesn t want.
Kroger officials say Indiana Oath Keepers was an IRS-approved nonprofit that successfully signed up to receive donations through its customer-directed Community Rewards Program. The group was cut off Tuesday after Kroger learned it was not aligned with the company s values.