Charlotte County Florida Weekly

FSW Foundation gets $500,000 grant for career, technical education program


 

 

The Florida SouthWestern State College Foundation was recently awarded a two-year, $500,000 grant from The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. The grant will support FSW’s Career and Technical Education Vision for Innovation Success and Access program.

The CTE VISA program is a workforce development-focused initiative that concentrates on identifying and expanding career path opportunities and enhances existing partnerships with regional employers with a focus in the technology, education and emergency medical services fields.

“We believe education is integral to an individual’s ability to succeed and to a community’s ability to prosper,” said Mary Beth Geier, Florida director for the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. “By including career and technical education in our foundation’s post-secondary investments, we are creating more pathways to success and helping to ensure students have the necessary skills to meet the current and future demands in our community.”

 

 

“We’re honored to be selected for this and to continue our ongoing partnership of working together to support FSW students and our community’s workforce needs,” said Keith Callaghan, FSW Foundation executive director.

The FSW Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 charitable organization and a direct support organization for Florida South- Western State College. For more information, visit Foundation.FSW.edu. ¦

 

 

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