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J. MARION SIMS FOUNDATION AWARDS LITERACY GRANTS TOTALING $1 MILLION
The J. Marion Sims Foundation, Inc. has made awards totaling approximately $1 million to organizations conducting adult literacy and basic skills programming.
Though the Foundation is not funding new programs in adult literacy and basic skills, President Jim Morton said the Foundation has made available one-year “transition grants” to organizations completing three-year grants awarded previously to help the organizations continue their literacy programming while seeking and securing funding from other sources.
The one-year transition grants are available to previously-funded literacy programs on an annual basis for up to three years, Morton said. The awards bring the Foundation’s total investment in adult literacy and basic skills programming to approximately $8 million.
Transition grants were awarded to the following literacy programs:
- Brooklyn Springs Elementary School, $61,000 for its “Home Literacy Trail” family literacy program.
- Chester County Literacy Council, $69,901 for its “Guided Academic Preparation Program” workplace literacy program in Great Falls.
- The Children’s Council, $49,877 for its “Skills for Success” family literacy program.
- Christian Services of Lancaster, $78,740 for its “Lit-Up” workplace literacy program.
- Communities in Schools of Lancaster County, $116,446 for its “YouthBuild” workplace literacy program.
- Deliverance Word of Faith Church, $82,065 for its “Southside Family Literacy Project.”
- Faith, Hope and Victory Christian Church, $57,459 for its “Community Powerhouse” family literacy program.
- Fort Lawn Community Center, $150,000 for its basic skills, family, parenting, computer, workplace and citizenship literacy programs.
- Lancaster County Literacy Council, $60,000 for its “Reading for Workplace Success” workplace literacy program.
- Learning Institute for Tomorrow, $117,327 for its LIFT health literacy program.
- The Multi-Cultural Information Center, “$37,900 for its “Empowering our Future Today,” citizenship literacy program.
- USC Research Foundation, $37,900 for the Kershaw Community Health Education Center’s “Improving the Health Literacy of Health Care Consumers in Southern Lancaster County” project.
- York Technical College Foundation, $98,000 for the college’s “Bridges to Enhanced Skills Training” workplace literacy program.
“The Foundation chose to make grants for adult literacy and basic skills in an effort to address unacceptably high rates of functional illiteracy that affect a number of health-related issues in Lancaster and Chester counties,” Morton said.
The J. Marion Sims Foundation supports programs of prevention and education that enhance health and wellness in Lancaster County, South Carolina and the communities of Great Falls and Fort Lawn.
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