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Important sustaining grant threatened
By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS
Children, parents, business and community leaders came together to celebrate the success and necessity for after school programs for area children during the Lights On After School rally on Morgan Square on Friday, October 21.
The area rally was just one of 7,500 such events across the nation emphasizing the importance of keeping the lights on and the doors open for after school programs.
It also highlighted the need to keep the federal 21st Century Community Learning Center national initiative operating.
The initiative provides federal grant money to keep after school programs operating.
Greg Tolbert president of the Boys and Girls club noted the grants are worth $1.1 over a four-year period.
He said, “Every time we win a grant it allows us to open two new places.” He said with the grant running for four years “we use that time to build sustainable programs.”
Tolbert added, “We’re the biggest grantee in the state. It’s made for schools to get but we get the most money out of it.”
He added more than 1,2000 students attend 11 Boys & Girls Club programs in Spartanburg and Cherokee County. There are nine elementary schools, a middle school and a stand along club serving kids after school.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Chesnee Tribune.
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