According to Executive Director Yvette Eastham, the Hopkinsville Community College Foundation has been awarded an $8,000 grant courtesy of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
Written in tandem with the Hopkinsville Community College Adult Education Program, the funding is slated to be used with the GED program in local jails.
In a program called “Reducing Recidivism through Educational Attainment,” staff from the adult education program will be able to purchase computers and other materials in support of instruction for incarcerated students.
Eastham noted this effort is to “reduce barriers to re-entry into local communities,” and that this first investment of the DGLF to the HCC Foundation starts that path.
Chartered on May 17, 1967, the HCC Foundation was first named the Pennyrile Education Foundation, Inc., as a separate non-profit arm of the community college.
On March 16, 2000, the body adopted its current name and named six goals under the umbrella:
*Advance the vision, mission, goals, and objectives of HCC.
* Be a catalyst for the private-sector resource development programs and activities of HCC.
* Raise private funds for college-wide initiatives and needs.
* Provide guidance for the management and investment of private funds.
* Be a “friend-raiser” and advocate for HCC.
* And offer counsel and advisement to the HCC president.
