JACKSON, Tenn. — An area fundraiser helps college students additional their training.
The Jackson State Group School basis held a brand new scholarship fundraiser named Tacos, Tecates & Scholarships.
The fundraiser goals to deliver extra funding into the faculty’s basis to help college students that will not be eligible to obtain conventional grants and scholarships, or college students who require extra funding to finish their education.
“With this explicit scholarship, it’s simply want primarily based. There’s not a lot else to this one significantly. We’ve raised over $2500 {dollars} tonight. We hope to proceed that going into the longer term. It’s simply a kind of distinctive alternatives for us to get collectively and supply college students that little little bit of assist that they should get by way of the semester,” shared President George Pimentel, Jackson State neighborhood faculty.
Final yr alone, the muse was in a position to present greater than $32-thousand {dollars} in scholarships and scholar aid.