Organization to look out for: ScholarMatch Project combines Philanthropy and Education
Today the crowdsourcing campaign ScholarMatch Project has launched, aiming to send 12 deserving students to college. As an online fundraiser, it makes it makes it easy for students to help other students receive an education by donating as little as $25. The following is a repost from http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/let-s-make-these-students-educational-dreams-a-reality
What do Walt Disney and Oprah Winfrey have in common, other than the fact that they both have possessed large amounts of wealth and fame? Both of these remarkable individuals are philanthropists, people that had a strong desire to promote the personal well-being of others. In the cases of Walt Disney and Oprah Winfrey, both of these individuals had a strong belief that through higher education, society as a whole would benefit significantly. Ms. Winfrey opened the Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and Mr. Disney created the California Institute of the Arts, two educational institutions that are still helping to form young minds today for the next generation.
The consistently higher costs of college tuition has resulted in 12 very deserving high school students in the California Bay Area, without the financial resources to achieve their goals and dreams of graduating with a college degree. Following in the footsteps of Walt Disney and Oprah Winfrey, a small group of reputable professionals in San Jose have created an online scholarship drive through the collaborative efforts of Indiegogo.com and ScholarMatch.
The hope is to achieve a total of $16,150 which will be used to send these 12 remarkable students on to
- See more at: http://stuvoice.org/blog/2013/10/04/organization-to-look-out-for-scholarmatch-project-combines-philanthropy-and-education/?utm_source=feedly#sthash.1y1Ouu2D.dpufREPOST: Students Speak Out on the Biggest Issues in Education
Reposted from PBS NewsHour, September 23, 2013 On American Graduate Day, community organizations, celebrities and educators acknowledge their commitment to keeping at-risk students in school. PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs participated by asking students around the country about their most pressing issues in education.