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Jackson EMC Foundation awards $19K to literacy, pregnancy nonprofit groups
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Jackson EMC District Manager Bill Sanders, far right, presents a $12,000 Jackson EMC Foundation check for the Gainesville-Hall County Alliance for Literacy’s basic literacy and GED programs. Accepting the check were, from left, Lanier Tech’s Office of Adult Education program manager Debbie Killip, Alliance board member Keith Whitaker, Alliance Executive Director Donna Shinafelt and Alliance board members Sally Lanthier and Brenda Thomas.
The Jackson EMC Foundation Board of Directors awarded a total of $100,000 in grants during its September meeting, including $19,500 to agencies serving Hall and Lumpkin County residents. * $12,000 to the Gainesville-Hall County Alliance for Literacy. The money will purchase materials and provide instructors for basic literacy classes for adults 16 and older and GED preparation classes for students who have not completed high school. The 2011 U.S. Census reports about 22 percent of Hall County residents are not high school graduates and 10 percent have less than a ninth-grade education. * $7,500 to Choices Pregnancy Care Center in Gainesville.