Flint Energies and its philanthropic arm, the Flint Energies Foundation awarded a total of $20,000 to teachers for creative and innovative lesson plans in the eighth year of the co-op’s Bright Ideas program.

Winning teachers were surprised in their classrooms by the Bright Ideas Prize Brigade representatives from Flint Energies with flowers, balloons, gift bags and “big” checks on November 5 and 12 and December 11.  The Bright Ideas program distributes grants of up to $1,000 for teachers to implement creative, innovative projects or lessons with students.  The grants are not available for professional development or SmartBoard or iPad requests.

This year $20,000 in Bright Ideas grants were given to 23 winning teachers and their team members at schools in Houston, Crawford, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, and Upson counties.

Warner Robins, GA — Robins Federal Credit Union employees recently donated 40 Christmas gifts for elderly and disabled Central Georgia residents.

Robins Federal employees created Christmas gift boxes for donations to the Meals on Wheels of Houston County’s “Shoeboxes for the Elderly” program. The packages contained a variety of items from candy and games to personal care items; and will be delivered to Meals on Wheels recipients along with a hot meal on Christmas day.

Robins Federal Credit Union is a local non-profit financial cooperative with nineteen branches in central Georgia. Robins Federal currently provides financial services to over 152,000 members, with assets exceeding $1.8 billion. Membership is open to anyone who lives, works, worships or attends school in the 16 counties Robins Federal serves.

ATLANTA (WXIA) -- Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has made Glassdoor's 2013 list of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2014.

The fast food chain is No. 43 on the list, which is based entirely onemployee feedback. It received a worker satisfaction ranking of 3.8 out of a possible 5.0.

The top five places to work in 2014, according to the list, are Bain &Company, Twitter, LinkedIn, Eastman Chemical and Facebook.