[Page 5] Scholarship Funds

Carol Comeau

This scholarship fund seeks to support students who are passionate about advocating for and protecting the environment for future generations.

Pruett Family

This fund will add additional resources to our Texas Women Empowerment Scholarship. A scholarship that will be a step towards a more equitable Texas for women. Since Texas became a state in 1845, there have been only nine women elected to executive office outside of the State Board of Education. The current 87th Texas legislature is made up of only 26.6% women, and in our judicial branch, we’ve had only 14 women elected to our highest courts since statehood. These numbers add up to a Texas government that cannot successfully represent the 50% of Texans who are women. Additionally, according to the Texas Women’s Foundation report on Economic Issues for Women, “While women complete college at higher rates than men, they also are burdened with greater debt in pursuit of those accomplishments. Women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the United States—about $929 billion. The irony is that women earn these degrees with the promise of higher-paying careers, yet while working in these higher-paying jobs, they are paid less than their male counterparts.” This scholarship, and the funds you add to it, will work towards balancing the scales by not only lowering the financial burden women face in higher education, but also by supporting the educational goals of young women who are interested in reducing disparities in our state. Women who will empower others by going on to shape policy, laws, and other public programs that will improve gender equality, reproductive rights, workplace equity, women's health, child care, political parity, and other related issues in our state. Special consideration will be given to applicants from underrepresented and marginalized communities.

Lee Family

The mission of this fund is to award students who are following their passion for art and are attending or dream of attending art school.

Lee Cortez

Lee Cortez has personally experienced the stress of not being able to pay for college and now hopes to help other Filipino Americans afford higher education so they can pursue their dreams.

Ben Schneider

From little things, big things grow. My mission is to inspire the next generation to shape the future for the better, starting at the local level and extending around the globe.

Bubba Wallace

This scholarship exists to support disadvantaged individuals that are in need of educational, medical, social, or other physical and/or non-physical assistance. “Live to be Different” believes people can achieve anything they put their mind to and strives to support their efforts.

Anuj

The purpose of this fund is to create scholarships for high school graduating students from Alief Independent School District (AISD). Our goal this year is to raise $20,000 for our scholarship fund. The fund will be used to create eight $2,500 scholarships, which will be used for tuition and/or books.

Brad Blankley

To help those graduating seniors that want to further their education through a trade.

Cade Reddington Memorial Fund

Fundraising for the Cade Reddington Be The Light Memorial Scholarship. $1000 per year will be given to to a high school senior who has been impacted directly or indirectly by substance use or mental health issues and would like to channel their experience into helping others in their career. We would be honored to have you help further Cade's legacy by helping a student interested in being a light to others like Cade was.

Gentile Family

Further my loved one’s legacy by supporting a Bethel Park High School student who shows the most care for others through college.