LivePC Give PC: Tanzer's 'Back To Our Roots' Scholarship paves the way for college bound students – TownLift Park City
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Tommy Tanzer with Park City High School recipients of the 2025 Back To Our Roots college scholarships. Photo: courtesy of the Tanzer Family
PARK CITY, Utah — The charity Back Our Roots, a fundraising and public relations campaign, has assisted Park City High School seniors with over $670,000 in funding. It has flourished, expanded, and assisted 527 Park City High School students with tutoring, mentoring, college prep, and scholarship acquisition over the last 20 years.
Back to Our Roots was born in the spring of 2006. It was formerly known as the Eileen G. Bailey Memorial Scholarship Fund. It grew from the efforts of Tommy Tanzer, Joanne Bloom, Sydney Reed, Jana Cole, Betsy Bacon, and Teri Wiss to honor the life of Eileen Bailey, their esteemed colleague and the matriarch of a four-generation teaching family.
These long-term Parkites have made this happen, and 30 of their students, including Whitney Olch, Dan Morgan, Erin Price, Kerrie Meier, Brett and Krysti Peretti, Temple Smith, Greg Blackbourn, Michael Spencer, Jake Doilney, Craig Rodman, and Lincoln and Bronson Calder, have benefited.
“We are preparing to focus our assistance on the many first-generation PCHS graduating students that need guidance and funding to finish their post-secondary and college education with the funds they will need to complete their journey,” Tanzer told TownLift.
“Unlike some other larger educational charities, we commit that 100% of all funds donated go directly to the funding efforts of this program. There are no monies going to administrative costs, mailing, advertising, public relations, legal fees, tax preparation or record keeping. All those cost are born by the founders and volunteers of this program.” Tanzer said.
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