General Motors Assembly Plant hosts Community Impact Grant ceremony to honor local nonprofits

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Thursday afternoon at the GM Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, they held their Community Impact Grant ceremony.

This year, funding went to organizations that focus on furthering STEAM education in South Central Kentucky.

One recipient was the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative, or GRREC.

They’ll be receiving $10,000 from the Assembly Plant to help further their STEM-a-thon program.

This helps kids in the area, especially neurodiverse students, get to have a little fun in the process… and this funding will go a long way into making sure this event continues to grow year after year, along with partners in the community.

“Corvette Museum is another one that is hands on the day of… so many partners make that possible for us to walk kids through the real world connections of what STEM looks like in the actual career, in the field, in the everyday world,” Dr. Savannah Denning, the special projects director for GRREC.

Other organizations receiving funding include the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce for the SCK Launch program, United Way of Southern Kentucky, Junior Achievement of South Central Kentucky, Gatton Academy, the Governor’s Scholar Program & For a Real Change.

Each organization will receive varying amounts of money that will go to different programs.