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LaGuardia Community College Foundation Provides a Safety Net to Assist Struggling Students, and the Means to Help Them Achieve Their Dreams. |
OUR DONORS
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The Wallace Foundation.
LaGuardia Community College received a
$250,000 contribution from the Wallace
Foundation to endow the Joe Shenker Memorial
Scholarship. The scholarship will provide
students with the tuition assistance they need.
This support is timely during a rough economy.
This contribution is the largest gift Wallace
has bestowed upon the College. Wallace made the
donation in memory of their former Board member
and LaGuardia’s founding president, Joseph
Shenker, who passed away on September 20, 2008
after a brief battle with pulmonary fibrosis at
age 68. |
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The New York Community Trust Wallace Special Projects Fund
provided $150,000
in unrestricted support to and provide stipends
for student tutors in the Academic Peer
Instruction program. |
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Barnes and Noble Presents $5,000 Scholarship Gift
Ray McGale, Regional Manager for Barnes and Noble Campus Bookstores, presented President Gail O. Mellow with a $5,000 gift to fund the College’s Barnes and Noble scholarship on May 21, 2008. Barnes and Noble has donated over $40,000 to LaGuardia students since 2004. “Our donation seeks to ease students’ burden by providing scholarships for tuition, books, transportation and other needs, said Mr. McGale. Students shown above: Jodi Hernandez, Monica Llandelar, Juan Vazquez, and Tasdid Hasan.
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Peter Koo, President of Starside Drugs
and a founding Board Member of the LaGuardia
Community College Foundation, has pledged
$100,000 in November 2007 to provide financial
support for students in the Allied Health
disciplines-nursing, physical and occupational
therapy, and veterinary technology. |
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HIP Health
Plan/Centralized Laboratory Services
Resource Center
LaGuardia officially unveiled its newly
renovated state-of-the-art nursing resource
center, a project that was funded by a $100,000
grant from HIP Health Plan/Centralized
Laboratory Services. The grant represented the
single largest corporate gift to the college. |
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Deutsche Bank Foundation
The Deutsche Bank Foundation awarded LaGuardia's
Center for Immigrant Education and
Training a $50,000 grant to develop of series of
activities and resources that will increase
immigrant parents' involvement in their
children's education. The ''Connecting Parents
to
Schools'' project addresses the major barriers
to immigrant parent
participation in their children's schools:
language, lack of familiarity with the school
system, lack of confidence, and the different
cultural attitudes toward the school authorities. |
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Readers Digest/Wallace
Foundation
The Readers Digest/Wallace Foundation awarded
LaGuardia a $100,000 grant to fund a number
of student support programs. One such project
is the Academic Peer Instruction, a nationally
recognized program where students who have excelled in
an academic course hold tutoring sessions
for students who need additional instruction in
that class. The Foundation earmarked
$20,000 for tutor stipends. |
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