Awarding $408,500 in Scholarships
2022 Sets Foundation record 97 grants
Ninety-seven graduates of Northshore schools will receive $408,250 in scholarships in the spring of 2022 from the Scholarship Foundation of Northshore.
In 2021, 79 graduates received $292,500 for college tuition. Rising costs of college and the burden of unimaginable student loan debt prompted Donor Partners of the Foundation to increase their numbers and their scholarship values this new year.
The last of 293 qualifying applications are being reviewed this very week by our Donor Partners and their teams of volunteers who signed up to help with the tough assignment of making and approving the 97 scholarship selections. Announcement of winners will happen prior to May 1.
What comprises the $115,750 increase this year?
· Eight new Donor Partners joined the Foundation to award $35,500 in scholarships with the Beyond the Cloud STEM scholarship sponsors making their $5,000 scholarship renewable. Retired Seattle Times journalist Arlene Bryant offered a $5,000 tuition grant as a new Partner. Her purpose is to encourage young persons to the study of journalism. Three more $5,000 grants were started and $3,500 were pledged by the Bothell arts community and two by developers of the Schoolhouse District in Woodinville – Main Street Properties and GenCap Construction.
· Mike and Marcia Rodgers noted the growing cost of college and decided to increase the value of their scholarships from $7,500 to $10,000 and to be renewable. This is their fourth year offering scholarships to a total of 12 Northshore graduates.
· Doug and Julee Moore received 59 qualifying applications for the annual
Parker Moore Memorial Scholarship and struggled to reduce that number to 11 as finalists for interviews. They selected five, three of them to receive a scholarship increased from $2,500 to $3,750 and renewable at that amount. Since 2015, the Moore family and friends have awarded 33 renewable scholarship to Woodinville High School graduates and 8 to students at Linfield College. Parker was in his second year at Linfield when he was killed in a tragic gun violence incident in November, 2014.
· Both the Bothell Kenmore Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Woodinville Chamber of Commerce increased the value to $3,000 for their 2022 scholarships for a graduate of Secondary Academy for Success and for a Woodinville High School graduate in business studies.
· The Wall of Honor Committee of the Northshore school system not only increased their $3,500 scholarship to $5,000 but decided to award two scholarships at that new amount.
In recapping eight years as a Foundation Donor Partner, Doug and Julee noted that the community-wide giving has come from many, many people: individuals in the Woodinville and Linfield communities, fun runs, lawn aerating business, the Falcon Gridiron Club’s raise the paddle and, of course, the sold out annual Parker Moore Golf event. (Held this year July 25 at Glendale Golf Course).
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