Staff Reports

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded the Career Resource Center of Brown County a $10,000 grant to continue to provide education in the Brown County jail.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded $10.5 million to support summer, family and adult literacy programs, the organization’s largest one-day grant donation in its 28-year history.

“We are so thankful to the Dollar General Foundation for supporting adult literacy in our community,” a press release from the CRC said. “This grant will assist us in providing ongoing services to those who wish to obtain their high school diploma or improve their skills for entry into post-secondary education and training. More specifically, these funds will support services to increase the literacy skills of inmates at our local jail in 2022.”

Other grants also have funded the program, including the Brown County Community Foundation’s Jail Literacy Grant in 2020.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation supports organizations that increase access to educational programming, stimulate and enable innovation in the delivery of educational instruction and inspire a love of reading. Each year, the foundation awards funds to nonprofit organizations, schools and libraries within a 15-mile radius of a Dollar General store or distribution center to support adult, family, summer and youth literacy programs.