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Welcome to Adopt-A-Student! Our mission is to provide tuition assistance to students whose families wish to provide them an education in the tradition and environment of Catholic schools.
Donations to Adopt-A-Student provide scholarship grants for students in our Central Catholic Elementary, Junior and Senior High Schools. Your donations have helped to Change a Life for nearly 1,000 students. We continue to receive more applications than we are able to fund, which motivates us to find new ways to provide more scholarship opportunities to those families seeking assistance to provide their children with the opportunities offered by receiving an education in Catholic schools.
Our Selection Committee has completed the selection process and has awarded 41 scholarship grants. Unfortunately we were not able to provide assistance to all of the applications due to lack of additional funding resources. We continue to focus our efforts on events to increase our funding capabilities.
On August 30, 2010 we will be holding our 21st Annual Golf Tournament. This year we will be honoring Most Reverend George E. Rueger.
On April 15 2010, we held our Second Annual Recognition Dinner, which was very successful with over 400 people in attendance. Mr. J. D. Power spoke to the gathering about the importance of education and reminisced about his early years in Worcester and encouraged the students to focus their efforts on the opportunities offered to them through our program. The Power family Foundation donated a very generous $50,000 to the Adopt-A-Student program earlier this year. Videos and slide shows are available on the Video page.
On June 6, 2010 we held our 2nd run/walk for tuition assistance. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate and we were not able to have Mass celebrated by Bishop Rueger. The weather cleared and 86 runners participated in the race and a shortened family fun day. Students who participated earned $3,400 in tuition credits. We were also able to raise enough additional funds for another scholarship.
You can help us Change a Life either by a making direct donation, or by supporting our events as a sponsor. To make a direct donation to Adopt-A-Student visit our donate page on this site or you can send a check to us at 49 Elm Street Worcester, MA 01609
Sincerely,
Bob Pape, Chair
St. Bernard's Central Catholic High School
St. Peter Central Catholic Elementary School
Holy Name Central Catholic Junior/Senior High Schools
St. Peter-Marian Central Catholic Junior/Senior High Schools
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