$30,000 / 2010, 2011
P.O. Box 5673
Greenville, Mississippi 38703
Joyce-Hall Parker, Director
Citizens For A Better Greenville (GBG), founded in 2001, is an instrumental organization in creating pathways for effective information exchange, advocacy and change within the Greenville public schools. It has worked on several issues, including: services for students with special needs, facilities improvements, composition of the school board, selection of superintendents, parent/teacher relations and more. Hazen’s one year grants of $30,000 in 2010 and 2011 will support CBG’s youth- and parent-led education organizing work to improve special education, reduce student drop-outs within the Delta and increase funding and community involvement in Greenville public schools.