Alexandria Jaycees Foundation Happy Hour
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Event description
Join your friends at this "mini reunion" to catch up & support a fundraiser for our Community Service Scholarship.
About this event
We have the private back room at TJ Stones - order your drinks & appetizers and join us to catch up and to help raise funds for the Foundation's Community Service Scholarship for the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria. We're working through Spring to Action to gather donations in April! (Look for a link to donate soon!)
Fast facts:
- The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria enables public school seniors the ability to apply for more than 100 different scholarships each year. More that 50% of applicants win money from the fund.
- Over 60% of the applicants live at or below the poverty line. All financial need-based scholarships are at least $3,000 per year and are renewable for all four years of college or trade school terms.
- The fund was established in 1986 and has granted over 5,000 students with financial awards. In total the fund has awarded over $13M in scholarships since it was founded.
- The need continues to increase as financial resources dwindle in our community. Last year the scholarship fund awarded over $1.2M in financial aid and the applicant increased by 10% over the same period of performance the prior year.