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Earning For Learning

Consolidated Communications Earning for Learning (EFL) program has donated more than $3 million to local schools in Illinois to use for teacher grants, computer and software purchases and other items and projects not included in typical school budgets.

The EFL program began in 1993, and returns 1/2 percent of our residential Long Distance earnings plus 1/2 percent of our Internet and Digital TV revenues to area schools each quarter.

Sign up for Consolidated's Long Distance, High-Speed Internet, and/or Digital TV and you're automatically signed up for Earning for Learning.

The following local school districts currently participate in Consolidated's Earning for Learning program:

Arcola
Arthur
Atwood-Hammond
Assumption
Charleston
Cowden-Herrick
Edinburg
Effingham
Effingham St. Anthony's
Effingham Sacred Heart
Gays Heritage Baptist Academy
Hillsboro
Kincaid-Southfork School District
Litchfield
Litchfield Zion Lutheran
Mattoon
Mattoon Pathways
Mattoon St. John's
Mattoon St. Mary
Morrisonville
Nokomis
Nokomis St. Louis School
Oakland
Pana
Pana First Baptist Christian Academy
Pana Sacred Heart
Raymond-Panhandle
Shelbyville
Sigel St. Michael's
Stewardson-Strasburg
Stewardson Trinity Lutheran
Taylorville
Taylorville St. Mary
Taylorville VisionWay
Windsor

To change the school where your share is donated, please contact Customer Service at 1.800.533.9981.

Program contact:
Chris Niebrugge
1-217-234-5754

Cultivating Creativity

Consolidated Communications supports school art programs through Cultivating Creativity: Consolidated Communications' Children's Art Exhibit in partnership with Eastern Illinois University's Tarble Arts Center.

The annual exhibit of artwork from children in area schools travels to several communities throughout the year. This program showcases some of the outstanding art by area students and helps raise awareness of the importance of including the arts as part of the regular school curriculum.

Consolidated Communications rewards the student as well as the school for their participation in the program.