Foundation receives $2500 donation from BankPlus
The Holmes Community College Development Foundation, Inc. is proud to announce a $2,500 donation from BankPlus to be used in matching the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant received on behalf of the McMorrough Library and Archives.
BankPlus is a full service financial institution with total assets of more than $4.2 billion serving communities with 80 locations throughout Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
The NEH grant will provide the Development Foundation with $231,849, and the Development Foundation will be responsible for matching these funds through donations. The McMorrough Library and Archives Renovation Project is dedicated to the preservation of humanities and seeks to provide an inclusive environment, offering informative programs to cultivate critical-thinking citizens.
As part of the proposed efforts to enrich and diversify the scope of humanities, the Development Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3) organization, has a five-year plan to renovate the 1975 structure's interior spaces and their contents. The new multidimensional spaces projected by the McMorrough Library and Archives Renovation Project will secure the practicality of activities set forth by the humanities departments as well as advance the library to become an innovative leader among Mississippi's fifteen community college libraries.
Improvements to the library such as new paint, ceiling tiles, floors and cabinetry began in the spring and continue at this time. Other improvements to the facility will continue over the next four years.
Tax exempt donations can be made to the Holmes Community College Development Foundation, P.O. Box 527, Goodman, MS 39079. Please contact the Foundation office at (662) 472-9017 to discuss giving opportunities for the matching grant.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at www.neh.gov.
