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Published: Sunday, October 26, 2008
South Coast Today
BOSTON — On Oct. 21, YouthBuild programs in Massachusetts received $475,000 from the Wal-Mart Foundation to help hundreds of students to earn their GED or high school diploma, develop job skills, and build affordable housing for low-income families in nine communities across the state.
Margaret McKenna, president of the Wal-Mart Foundation, and Dorothy Stoneman, president of YouthBuild USA, joined local officials, YouthBuild representatives and students for the announcement at a tour of a LEED-registered, two-family home in Dorchester that is being constructed by YouthBuild Boston.
The grant of $475,000 to nine YouthBuild programs in Massachusetts is part of a larger grant of $5 million from the Wal-Mart Foundation.
The $5 million will enable 59 local YouthBuild affiliates to enroll a total of 2,000 out-of-school youths in YouthBuild alternative schools across the nation.
In addition to expanding the capacity of existing YouthBuild programs, the Wal-Mart grant will help create new YouthBuild programs, increase YouthBuild programs' ability to implement green building techniques, expand access to careers in green industries, assist YouthBuild graduates to build assets, and attract more young women to YouthBuild through health care training initiatives.
In addition to YouthBuild programs in Boston, Cambridge, Lawrence, Quincy, Brockton, New Bedford, Fall River, Worcester and Springfield, the Wal-Mart Foundation grant will support programs across the country.
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