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Mission Statement
To inspire confidence and hope with community support to help students in the ConVal Region achieve their potential.
Objectives
- To build an endowment adequate to serve worthy and needy students and to sustain this organization for many years to come. - To assist financially and otherwise needy students with emphasis on helping serving those who will benefit most from our assistance. - To motivate, encourage and assist high school students in the completion of secondary and the pursuit of postsecondary education.
Why Dollars for Scholars
In 2000 Scholarship America raised more than $100 million which went to more than 90,000 students across the country. Affiliation provides access to support services and protects contributions by assuring that our grants will supplement rather than be used in lieu of funds available from other sources. In some instances grants matching ours may be matched by Dollars for Scholars “Collegiate Partners”.
Why now
In preparing our youth to compete in a global economy and with the standard of living in the United States in relative decline, we must make young students and their parents more aware of education and existing educational opportunities which, if they are not seized, they may never have again. For too many young people, especially males, given the increasing cost of postsecondary education and, often, lack of parental support, apathy prevails.
The Challenge
The challenge is to overcome and start to turn around the current disinclination to take advantage of vitally important educational opportunities for the sake of individuals and for the nation and to help more of our young people find ways to make continuing education affordable.
The Plan
Starting gradually and keeping it simple, we will seek constantly to assure maximum return for every dollar invested in student support. We will build a program that will assure growing and sustainable assistance for students residing in the ConVal region who will pursue education opportunities to help them achieve their potential. From the beginning we will seek out, nurture and support promising candidates who, without encouragement and finding ways to believe that postsecondary education can be made affordable, will drop out intellectually even before they stop showing up for class. As the gap between four-year and two-year college cost widens, for many of these candidates, the only possible option is in two-year institutions. We will also provide support for others, on a competitive and needs based selection basis, and within limits of available resources, for any certificate or degree postsecondary education program.
In June 2007 our minimum commitment is to offer two $2,500 per annum scholarships for each of two years to most promising but disadvantaged students entering two-year institutions plus one multi-year scholarship grant of $2,500 per annum or more for any certificate or degree program in any four-year or other postsecondary program.
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