SPC focuses on African American men, youth with new funding
January 28, 2020 - Verizon is providing a $100,000 grant to support St. Petersburg College’s African American Male Initiative, a program to help close the achievement gap for African American males. The initiative will help to build strategic programming focused on tutoring, mentoring, digital literacy and technology workforce development to prepare students for meaningful careers in our digitized workforce, a news release said. The City of St. Petersburg separately awarded SPC a $329,325 grant to provide focused educational and entrepreneurial training opportunities to African American male youth. The three-year city grant will support SPC’s PITCH program, which provides tuition assistance and mentoring for African American male youth to help them obtain workforce certificates and/or enroll in post-secondary programs, a news release said.