Support Culinary As Well As Workforce Instruction Opportunities Inwards Richmond

Reynolds Receives $250,000 Grant from Dominion Energy

Reynolds receives $250,000 grant from Dominion Energy to
support culinary as well as workforce instruction opportunities inwards Richmond’s East End

Reynolds Community College has received a $250,000 grant from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation to back upward need-based scholarships for residents of Richmond’s East End community. 

Dominion Energy’s investment helps convey to life a vibrant extension of Reynolds' footprint, broadening access to the college’s award-winning Culinary Arts computer programme equally good equally dozens of other occupational as well as academic programs. Construction of a novel state-of-the-art facility at the corner of 25th as well as Nine Mile Road inwards Church Hill began slowly final year. The facility is expected to opened upward for classes inwards the autumn of 2019 as well as volition double culinary enrollment capacity. It volition likewise assist develop a talent pipeline of skilled culinary as well as hospitality professionals critically needed inwards Richmond’s burgeoning nutrient scene.

“Richmond’s eating seat manufacture is on burn downwardly correct now, as well as thence it’s the correct fourth dimension to invest inwards the programs as well as people that volition brand our community to a greater extent than vibrant as well as livable,” said Mark O. Webb, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs as well as Chief Legal Officer, Dominion Energy.

“Dominion Energy’s generous investment volition assist Reynolds offering instruction as well as preparation opportunities that Pb to sustainable job as well as economical security,” said doc Gary L. Rhodes, Reynolds President. “At the destination of the 24-hour interval it’s actually families as well as communities that volition produce goodness from this project.”

The college’s novel infinite volition likewise serve equally a telephone substitution access indicate for career planning, fiscal aid, enrollment assistance as well as task placement. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 gratis shuttle for all students, which volition loop from the East End site to the downtown as well as Parham Road campuses, volition ease transportation as well as expand career preparation options for residents. 

Reynolds has engaged numerous partners throughout the life of the project, including the City of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bon Secours Richmond Health System, as well as leaders inwards philanthropy, modest business, as well as the corporate as well as faith-based communities.

“This projection is a neat event of what tin ambit when nosotros all operate together,” said Webb. “It’s setting the phase for to a greater extent than neat projects to come upward inwards as well as approximately downtown Richmond.”