{"id":10,"date":"2019-05-06T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/ToTestWordPress\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:45:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capital-credit-pictures-2016-003-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capital-credit-pictures-2016-003-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capital-credit-pictures-2016-003-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capital-credit-pictures-2016-003-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The Benton Telecommunications Foundation was founded by the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bctelco.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benton Cooperative Telephone Company<\/a>&nbsp;in 2007<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josh Anderson<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>General Manager<\/strong>\u00a0 <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2220 125th Street NW\u00a0<br>Rice, MN 56367-9701 <br>Email:\u00a0janderson@bentoncomm.com<br>Phone: 320-393-2115<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BOARD OF DIRECTORS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table  class=\" table table-hover\" ><tbody><tr><td><strong>Officers<\/strong>\u00a0<br>Dan Lieser, President\u00a0<br>Nancy Frerich, VP\u00a0<br>Jim Young, Secretary\u00a0<br>Josh Anderson, Treasurer<\/td><td><strong>Directors<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Roger Secord <br>Mike Kahl<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GUIDING PHILOSOPHY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p> The guiding philosophy of Benton Telecommunications Foundation is to invest in values, ethics and character formation; to support the efforts of those who are successfully making a difference in people lives, and to help build the communities in which we live. The Foundation believes in sharing the blessings which have been bestowed on its contributors and in celebrating the spiritual reciprocity between donors and receivers working collaboratively to make the world a better place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benton Telecommunications Foundation was founded by the&nbsp;Benton Cooperative Telephone Company&nbsp;in 2007. Josh Anderson,\u00a0General Manager\u00a0 2220 125th Street NW\u00a0Rice, MN 56367-9701 Email:\u00a0janderson@bentoncomm.comPhone: 320-393-2115 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers\u00a0Dan Lieser, President\u00a0Nancy Frerich, VP\u00a0Jim Young, Secretary\u00a0Josh Anderson, Treasurer Directors&nbsp;Roger Secord Mike Kahl GUIDING PHILOSOPHY The guiding philosophy of Benton Telecommunications Foundation is to invest in values, ethics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bentontelecomfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}