Golden LEAF Board Awards $500,000 To Johnston Community College Foundation

GREENVILLE, NC – On Thursday, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded a total of $4.5 million in funding to support job creation and economic investment projects, workforce preparedness projects, and scholarships across North Carolina.

One project in Johnston County received funding from Golden LEAF. $500,000 was awarded to Johnston Community College Foundation, Inc. for equipment to support the expansion of applied engineering, computer-integrated machining, and welding programs at Johnston Community College, which are relocating to the new Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Four Oaks.

Golden LEAF held its April 3 Board meeting at East Carolina University’s (ECU) campus in Greenville.

The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to receive a portion of North Carolina’s funding from the 1998 3 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers. For 25 years, Golden LEAF has worked to increase economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural and tobacco-dependent communities through leadership in grantmaking, collaboration, innovation, and stewardship as an independent and perpetual foundation.

The Foundation has provided lasting impact to tobacco-dependent, economically distressed, and rural areas of the state by helping create 68,000 jobs, more than $780 million in new payrolls, and more than 98,000 workers trained or retrained for higher wages.