Dollars for Scholars of Putnam County — Cloverdale Community Dollars for Scholars, Greencastle Alumni Dollars for Scholars, North Putnam Alumni Association Dollars for Scholars, South Putnam Dollars for Scholars — has recently received a Dr. Irving Fradkin Legacy Student Support Award of $15,000 from Scholarship America, the nation’s largest provider of private scholarships.
With the cost of attending college continuing to rise, the grant will help the Dollars for Scholars affiliates support students by providing opportunities to explore careers and educational pursuits beginning in middle school and continuing throughout their high school years.
Scholarship America created the Dr. Irving Fradkin Legacy Awards to give outstanding Dollars for Scholars more opportunity to provide impactful student support, honoring organization founder Irving Fradkin’s vision for communities to join together and fund local scholarships.
Dollars for Scholars of Putnam County is one of just four programs across the nation selected for a 2024 Fradkin Legacy Award.
The Dollars for Scholars of Putnam County was selected for the Award because its work best exemplified two vital principles on behalf of students:
On behalf of the local affiliates, Vivian Whitaker states that “we want to note our sincere appreciation of this award. It will help us provide: Mentoring services to our students, college and trade school visits, scholarship/FAFSA nights for parents and students and increased scholarship applications. These opportunities will make our local scholarships even more impactful and help lessen a student’s financial worries so they can spend more time focused on their studies.”
For more than 60 years, Scholarship America has helped community groups and organizations across the nation establish and operate Dollars for Scholars. This network of locally based scholarship providers helps hometown students access and complete their college degrees, certifications or career preparation.
With 80 percent of American families saying scholarships make it possible for their students to attend college, these local awards are a critical piece of the financial aid puzzle — reducing student debt, filling in funding gaps and letting them know their community is behind them as they strive to achieve their academic goals.
Scholarship America is a nonprofit organization that helps students pursue their dream by eliminating barriers to educational success. Since it was founded in 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $5.4 billion to 3.1 million students, making it the nation’s largest private scholarship provider.
The organization runs its own national and community-based scholarship programs and works with partners wishing to establish scholarship and support programs. Learn more at scholarshipamerica.org.
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