Volunteer group in Valley awarded $1K literacy grant

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded a $1,000 Youth Literacy grant to the HandsOn Volunteer Network of the Valley, based in Boardman.

Rick Dreiling, Dollar General’s chairman and CEO, said, “The Dollar Gen- eral Literacy Foundation is pleased to support the literacy efforts of HandsOn Volunteer Network. The Youth Literacy grants are awarded annually at the start of the school year so that the funds are in place to have an impact on reading education and support.”

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s Youth Literacy grants are awarded to assist with implementing new or expanding current youth-literacy programs, to purchase new technology or equipment to support youth-literacy initiatives, or to purchase books, materials or software for literary programs for youth.

In August, Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded grants totaling more than $2 million to 564 nonprofit organizations, community groups, schools and libraries in the United States.

The foundation estimates about 315,000 young people will be served as a result of the grants.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation was established in 1993 to improve the functional literacy of adults and families by providing grants to nonprofit organizations dedicated to the advancement of literacy.