2011 Annual Appeal

     This past July, the Contoocook Valley Community Scholarship Foundation (CVCSF) Dollars for Scholars® celebrated our fifth anniversary of providing financial help and future hope to ConVal grads in need.  Your contributions have helped to provide tuition and mentoring support for area students residing in the nine towns of the ConVal region.  Without this help, each year these students would have very limited post-secondary education opportunities for success.

    Five years ago community leaders saw the need for an alternative scholarship program, one that addresses the needs of students identified as facing extraordinary challenges. The result is a three-pronged plan that provides special college planning advice, social and financial assistance, and mentoring support of the scholar’s life and college experiences. From 2007 through 2010, we have granted twenty-eight scholarship and mentoring awards. Approximately 70% of those who received our awards successfully completed two or more years of post-secondary education - well above the national average. It’s working!

  The community’s strong financial support of this compelling program has been extraordinary. In six years we have raised or earned in the neighborhood of $270,000 from approximately 500 individual and organizational donations, including sponsors such as NHBB, Monadnock Rotary, and the Peterborough Lions Club. In 2010, we were able to start to build an endowment fund with an investment of $50,000. We are very grateful for all contributions, big or small.

  We invite you to attend our annual board meeting and member reception at the Nubanusit Neighborhood’s Common House starting at 5 PM on December 12, 2012. It’s on Steele Road off Union St. in Peterborough. You can find detailed directions at http://www.peterboroughcohousing.org.

     More important, we have included a self-addressed envelope for your check of support. Become or renew your CVCSF Membership today!