A $62,139 grant from the TG Public Benefit Grant Program will help find a program at McLennan Community College that’s aimed at reducing high school dropout rates and encouraging at-risk students to become the first in their families to graduate from college.

TG is a Texas-based nonprofit corporation that guarantees federal student loans.

MCC”s First Generation College Student Initiative is designed to reach out as early as the 4th grade to students whose parents never attended college with a particular focus on African-American and Hispanic children.

Efforts to “plant the seeds of college aspirations” will continue at least through the spring of 2009.

The initiative was launched last fall with a $100,000 grant from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation that will pay for six two-year MCC scholarships for first-generation college students in 2006 and six more scholarships in 2007.

The grand also funds a portion of the salary of an outreach coordinator at MCC for two years.

The new grant will allow 12 more students to attend MCC this year.

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