Sentences with phrase «college scholarship fund»

Explain how you raised, say, $ 50,000 in six months for a college scholarship fund.

Students accumulate a college scholarship fund based on 10 percent of their DREAM balance, redeemable at graduation, and cash in dollars for trips like the one to Harvard.

ABC LOCAL - Oct 1 - Groupon is launching a dating site where people can meet and go on dates using Groupon coupons and is offering couples who end up having a kid together the chance to win a college scholarship fund for their «Groupspawn.»

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Interim Healthcare Inc. and Pennysaver will donate $ 4,000 a year for at least three years toward college scholarship funds administered by the Rockland Negro College Fund.

Not exact matches

Having worked from high school through college, and with no debt thanks to his football scholarship, he bootstrapped, funding the startup with his own savings and investments from family members.

Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan donated $ 5 million to a scholarship fund dedicated to helping undocumented immigrants attend college.

McKelvey helped organize the Families of Freedom fund after the September 11 attacks, headed by Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, which raised more than $ 100 million to be used toward college scholarships for the children of the attack's victims.

There are also a couple benefits that 529 plans offer — you can withdraw the amount of any scholarships your student receives tax - free, and you can use the plan to fund another child's or relative's education should the designated beneficiary decide to skip college.

Mr. Molander said he donates regularly to a nonprofit organization that funds college scholarships for students at his hometown high school in Marinette, Wis., while his wife supports various health and social causes.

However, James faces a tough fight against a prolottery Democrat who is touting the college scholarships and prekindergarten programs that can be funded by a lottery.

I know a suburban mom who, for every biological kid she and her husband send to college, they've create a trust fund — kind of like another scholarship — for a kid that's not biologically theirs, but is financially hard - pressed.

The site features warm and fuzzy snapshots of winding country roads and rustic cabins along with links to a cornucopia of social welfare programs the foundation funds - from foster homes to kids» camps to college scholarships - that would seem to be the furthest thing from controversial.

Twin Peaks Restaurants has committed to raise enough funds to sponsor 81 college scholarships — one for each of its stores nationwide — valued at $ 5,000 each.

That's not to say everyone who wrestled wants to see Planned Parenthood defunded, or that every Tea Party member wants to see more taxpayer - funded scholarships for college wrestlers.

In September, he gave his first six checks to fund two scholarships at St. Anne's - Belfield, the private high school he went to in Charlottesville (even though he and Megan had quietly funded two already, and those kids are about to head off to college).

Traveling from Tampa to Orlando for night classes isn't easy — or inexpensive — so Amanda applied for scholarships through the School Nutrition Foundation, winning an Annual Fund and a Schwan's scholarship to help her offset some college costs.

Even if a college or university does not have a specific scholarship fund or award designated for twins, they may have a sibling discount program.

Scholarships include funds for completion of high school and college programs, graduate study, and support for first - time attendees at various meetings and conferences.

In settling the D.C. lawsuit, Chartwells agreed to make $ 14 million in credits and payments to the school system and committed to provide $ 5 million in philanthropic support for the schools, including $ 4 million to the D.C. Public Education Fund for «innovative programs» and $ 1 million to several nonprofit organizations that promote literacy and provide mentors, college scholarships and academic enrichment.

Alexandria Reid is currently pursuing her Master's in Conflict, Security and Development at King's College London, funded by a Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Scholarship.

He was awarded the Crowley Price for my Masters» dissertation, held an Amelia Jackson Scholarship from Exeter College and currently his research is funded by the ESRC.

Funded by a generous benefactor and local businessman, along with his wife, Jerry and Joanna Higgins, this scholarship is awarded to worthy students who will be attending college or training beyond high school.

What must be recognized in this conversation is that while society's commitment to the pursuit of higher education has always been a funding priority, our Rabbinical colleges were not given equal recognition when it came to scholarship opportunities like TAP.

Cuomo has supported the idea of tuition - free college in the past, providing scholarship funding for teachers and students going into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, as well as introducing the idea of the state paying for college courses for inmates, though that proposal met with hostility.

Cuomo has supported the idea of tuition - free college in the past, providing scholarship funding for teachers and students entering the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

PLATTSBURGH — The state is now accepting applications for the Excelsior Scholarship program designed to fill in the funding gaps at the state's public colleges and universities.

Lowell Hawthorne, the president of Golden Krust, the largest Caribbean franchise in the country, was recently honored at Bronx Community College, his alma mater, for funding scholarships there.

Latimer did not vote on School Funding, Raise - the - age, extending the Millionaire tax, renewing the Affordable New York tax abatement, Excelsior Scholarships to fund college expenses for middle - class families at CUNY and SUNY schools, workers compensation reform, all so he could stroll the River Thames with his girlfriend.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

Tuesday, the Assembly passed the New York DREAM Fund, which helps undocumented students get scholarships for college.

College Affordability: The state provides first year funding of $ 86 million, $ 125 million when fully phased, for the implementation of the Excelsior Scholarship for SUNY and CUNY students.

The next students to benefit from the Hartford Promise scholarship fund are 113 city high school seniors from the Class of 2017, each of whom will get up to $ 20,000 to help pay for college.

He has also proposed extending college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — a proposal known as the Dream Act — as well as creating a new tax credit to offset donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds and public schools.

When asked how the new legislation and the DREAM Act would interact with Cuomo's Excelsior scholarship — which provides tuition free college for middle class New Yorkers, and includes a provision for funding for Dreamers — Heastie said the plan was a good one, but the Assembly would counter it with their own version of the scholarship.

Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island) and Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) said they would not support expanding a proposed education investment tax credit to help fund scholarships for the college kids of illegal immigrants — a plan some saw as a compromise to the DREAM Act that was voted down in the Senate last week.

Florida lawmakers are poised to end their annual Session on Sunday by passing an $ 88.7 billion state budget that increases funding for school safety, mental health, environmental land - buying and college scholarships.

The Act would allow undocumented immigrant students to apply for state tuition assistance, expand access to the State's 529 College Savings Program, and create a private scholarship fund available to undocumented students.

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

RCPHS SCHOLARSHIP FUND - We offer multiple annual $ 1,000 scholarships to graduating Seniors of Hispanic descent (at least one parent must be Hispanic) attending a high school in Rockland County, who plans to attend a two or four year college and pursue a career in Law Enforcement or a related field.

For example, the United Negro College Fund sponsors the Pfizer postdoctoral fellowship, the Merck Science Initiative, and many scholarships that also award internships.

Merck, in a partnership with the United Negro College Fund, awards at least 37 scholarships a year to African - American researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels; to date, the program has trained more than 370 scientists.

Authorized by Congress in 2002, the Noyce program gives funding to partnering college - and university - based alternative certification programs to recruit and provide scholarships and stipends to people in the process of earning degrees in STEM disciplines.

MAR is funded by a Clarendon Scholarship, NDM Studentship and Green Templeton College Award from the University of Oxford.

UCSF Graduate Student Genevieve Erwin also participated in this research at Gladstone, which was supported by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (#GM082901) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (#HL098179), A PhRMA Foundation Fellowship, a University of California Achievement Awards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship and a gift from the Sam Simeon Fund.

THINK Fund at HCF also funds college scholarships as well as grants to nonprofits for STEM Learning.

New Jersey college students are eligible for TWC scholarships funded by Kessler Foundation.

Funding: The authors wish to thank the Technology Commercialization Innovation Program (Contracts # 121668, # 132043) of the Utah Governors Office of Commercial Development, the Scholarship Activities Committee of the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University, and Murdock Charitable Trust and NIH Grant Numbers P20RR020185 and 1P20RR024237 from the COBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources for support of the MSU mass spectrometry facility.

The benefit was raising funds to support scholarships for students of The New School and was produced in collaboration with the school's College of Performing Arts.

Many programs, including TBB, offer need - based scholarships, but accessing those funds requires both information and guidance, a tall order in urban schools where a single college counselor can have 700 students on his or her caseload.