The check was presented to Otis Raybon, Jr., CVTC’s Education For Work Cam-paign Co-Chair and Dr. Craig McDaniel, CVTC President, by Don Barbour, Regional Manager of External Affairs at AT&T Georgia.
CVTC’s Education For Work campaign is a five year investment plan designed to enhance economic development through work-force education in Floyd, Gordon, and Polk counties. The college officially kicked off the campaign this past February.
“CVTC is a leading technical college in the area and AT&T supports the efforts of the local colleges and the areas they serve,” stated Barbour. “Dr. McDaniel and I talked about the capital campaign and about a number of projects the college was embarking on. AT&T took a look at those and wanted to support their efforts.
“The support of AT&T toward our Education For Work campaign means a great deal to Coosa Valley Technical College,” stated McDaniel. “They have al-ways been a supporter of economic development activities in our community and this investment is an indication that they intend on continuing that support.”
AT&T’s donation was used toward building a new set for CVTC’s television studio.
“One of the projects Dr. McDaniel and I talked about was a new television set to help produce recruitment videos that the college would distribute to local high schools,” added Barbour.
AT&T is a communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Inter-net access and voice ser-vices. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the di-rectory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM or-ganizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innova-tors in such fields as com-munications equipment. Additional information about AT&T and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at www.att.com.
With $2.1 million already raised through community donations from local and international business and industry, local government, healthcare organizations, and privately owned small businesses, CVTC is close to reaching their goal of $2.5 million.
Coosa Valley Technical College’s Foundation was created in 1989 to allow the college to be responsive to the needs of the community and the economy. The main functions of CVTC’s Foun-dation are to provide finan-cial assistance to students, fund equipment purchases, assist in marketing and public relations efforts, and help provide funding for new programs. A 501(c)(3) corporation, the Founda-tion provides a way for services to be delivered when state and federal resources are not avail-able.
For more information on Coosa Valley Technical College’s Education For Work campaign, or to make a donation, contact Diane Blair, Executive Director of the Foundation at 706-295-6959.
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