Questions Surround Nonprofit's $5M Gift to USM Facility

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A nonprofit organization that receives a majority of its budget from taxpayer dollars intended to help people out of poverty, provided most of the funding for a $7 million volleyball center through an upfront five-year sublease agreement with the University of Southern Mississippi's athletic foundation, and some are questioning why.

As reported by Mississippi Today, the Mississippi Community Education Center paid $5 million in cash toward the state-of-the-art facility, located in Hattiesburg, a college town of 46,500 people with a poverty rate almost double the state average.

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