The Norwalk Community College Foundation has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the Fairfield County Community Foundation”™s Fund for Women and Girls.
Twenty female students on the financial edge will benefit.
“This is a very exciting program that can help low-income students who are working and supporting dependents to achieve greater economic security,” said Tim Massad, president of the foundation. “We all know education is a key to good employment, and this program will help those students overcome many of the barriers that often prevent them from completing their education and entering the workforce with the skills they need to succeed.”
The grant was part of a total $400,000 that was awarded to eight nonprofit organizations at the Fund for Women and Girls’ ninth annual awards luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich.
The Norwalk Community College Foundation, which received the largest grant, will use the contribution as well as other funds it has raised to finance a new program to benefit 20 qualified female students beginning in the fall of 2008.
The program is designed to help students who are also parents complete their education and enter a career that will allow them to support themselves and their families. Participating students will receive scholarship and other financial support as well as financial literacy classes, career coaching and achievement coaching.
“NCC opens the door to prosperity and economic security for women and men of all ages,” said David L. Levinson, college president. “This grant will help NCC empower low-income students and in turn benefit their families. We are building community capital.”
