Educational Opportunities
Moore Scholarship for Adult Development
We are very proud of our fully integrated adult education services provided through GLAD, offering literacy and ESL classes, adult basic education, and preparation and testing for the General Equivalency Diploma, all under one roof. We are even prouder of our citizens who go there, determined to build a better life for themselves and their families. While the classes are offered without charge, the GED test fee can be more than many folks can afford.
In memory of our beloved Kevin Moore, Grenada Community Foundation and the Moore family began a scholarship program, administered by Grenada School District, to offer scholarships to cover the test fees for the GED. Kevin was a man with a servant's heart and his commitment to the community was evident through his involvement in many organizations, including our own.
To continue Kevin’s educational legacy, please consider a donation to the scholarship program.
““The only road out of poverty runs past the schoolhouse door.” ”
Mississippi Children’s Collaborative
Mississippi has for too long been last in line –in educational results. And too often first in line – in incarceration rates, teen pregnancy, obesity, infant and child mortality, children living in poverty and with single parents…the list is long.
What are we doing about it?
First, we are paying attention to the wealth of research and to common sense as well. If we want to change outcomes, we need to start with our smallest citizens. Ask us; we can point you to volumes of papers that demonstrate that investments in early childhood development far outweigh the return earned in any other kind of economic development investment. When children form successful early relationships, when their brains are stimulated and they learn through following their own curiosity with a teacher who knows how to teach them, their success rate in school is higher, the drop out rate is lower, college completion is higher, employment retention greater at better jobs, tax revenues higher, social costs lower, crime rates fall, and criminal justice and prison costs fall. A magic bullet? No. A great improvement? Yes.
On October 17, 2012, a meeting of various technical assistance agencies in the state was held in Grenada, along with the Department of Health, the 100 Black Men of Grenada, and Economic Development District, and GCF. We wanted to be our own people’s pilots program therefore, Mississippi Children’s Collaborative was born.