Brightpoint Community College Community College will share $50,000 grant from Truist Charitable Fund to support student parents

A Joint News Release from The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education and Truist Charitable Fund

Media Contacts: 

Holly Walker
Director of Communications and Public Relations
Brightpoint Community College
hwalker@brightpoint.edu
8004-594-1530

Anne Rogers, 
Virginia Foundation for Community College Education
arogers@vccs.edu 

Brightpoint Community College Community College will share $50,000 grant from Truist Charitable Fund to support student parents

(CHESTER and MIDLOTHIAN, Va. – November 25, 2024) – Brightpoint Community College will receive $10,000 to support its College Attainment for Parent Students (CAPS) program, thanks to a generous donation from the Truist Charitable Fund.
“We are grateful to Truist Charitable Fund for this donation that will support parent students in our CAPS program,” said Dr. Bill Fiege, president of Brightpoint Community College. “This grant funding will help students facing financial challenges so they can continue their education and achieve their goals.”
Nationally, one in five students is a parenting student, many with children requiring childcare. The CAPS program was created to expand Virginia’s talent pipeline and ensure parent students have access to education as well as critical resources to help them succeed. Funding will help parent students offset the cost of childcare and unexpected expenses, provide learning materials to their children, and create more family-friendly campuses.

“We are deeply grateful for the support of the Truist Charitable Fund for the CAPS program,” said Director of Community Engagement Anne Rogers. “With this funding, we can help even more students achieve their educational goals, build brighter futures for their families, and ultimately contribute to the success of our communities.”

The CAPS program is being piloted at five of Virginia’s twenty-three community colleges: Brightpoint, Central Virginia, Germanna, New River, and Tidewater Community Colleges.

“As I meet with business owners across the Commonwealth of Virginia, workforce development is top of mind. The CAPS program is critical to this effort as it provides important resources to parents who are attending five of our great 23 community colleges to gain the skills that match today’s job opportunities,” said Thomas Ransom, Truist’s Virginia regional president. “Our purpose at Truist is to build better lives and communities, and we’re proud to help VFCCE support parent students in joining the workforce.”

You can learn more about the CAPS program at the following URL:  https://vfcce.org/our-priorities/college-attainment-for-parent-students-caps/

About The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education 
The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education (VFCCE) is a supporting arm of Virginia’s 23 community colleges. It works to broaden educational access, promote student success, and provide innovative solutions to workforce needs. To ensure access to high quality, affordable education, the VFCCE provides statewide leadership in raising funds for community college education, supplementing the activities of the 23 individual colleges, and advocating for major system-wide initiatives that could not be undertaken by any single college. For more information, please visit https://vfcce.org/. 

About Truist Charitable Fund 
The Truist Charitable Fund (“TCF”) is committed to Truist Financial Corporation’s (NYSE: TFC) purpose to inspire and build better lives. TCF was established as a donor-advised fund and is administered by The Winston-Salem Foundation. TCF invests in local community organizations, focusing on grants that support initiatives and programs in the areas of educational equity, leadership development and essential community services. To learn more about Truist’s purpose, visit https://www.truist.com/who-we-are/about-truist.