Thursday, December 6, 2012
The scholarship challenge has a goal of raising $200,000 in scholarships for the Class of 2013 Stoughton High graduates through direct and matching donations.
Information from the "Dollars for Stoughton Scholars" brochure used in this article: The Stoughton Schools are looking to give a nice parting gift to members of the Stoughton High Class of 2013 when they graduate this June: up to $200,000 in scholarship money. With one generous donor on board (the Prone Family Foundation), the Schools are looking for other businesses and individuals to join and partake in a "scholarship challenge," with the goal of raising $200,000 for this year's SHS graduates. "The greatest challenge that faces our high school graduates today is the staggering cost of their college education," the Stoughton Schools state in a scholarship brochure. Each year many Stoughton graduates receive college scholarships from …
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Stoughton insurance agency's three-month food drive benefits both of Stoughton's food pantries.
After running a food pantry drive this past December, January and February, Malcolm and Parsons Insurance Agency in downtown Stoughton was able to donate about 2,000 items to the two food pantries in town. Malcolm and Parsons also made a monetary donation of $2,000, with the Prone Family Foundation matching it, so both the Ilse Marks Food Pantry and the St. Anthony's Free Market were able to receive $2,000 each. The drive, organized by Jack Raeke and Jim Moran of Malcolm and Parsons, was motivated by the desire that “no family should ever go to bed hungry.” Raeke, Moran and Amne Parsons were on hand recently to present a check to Anne Havlin of St. Anthony's Free Market and Suzanne Blacker and Henrietta Polanzak of the Ilse Marks Pantry at…
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The School Committee voted to accept a $28,000 donation from the Prone Family Foundation, which will go towards enrichment activities at Stoughton High. The Committee also approved a series of scholarships for graduating seniors.
Over the past year, the Prone Family Foundation has made donations to and supported numerous causes in Stoughton, including the schools. Last year, the Prone Family Foundation funded a number of scholarships for graduating Stoughton High students. This year, in addition to those scholarships, the Foundation will donate an additional $28,000 to “benefit the students of Stoughton High at all grade levels,” Stoughton High Principal Matt Colantonio told the School Committee at their Tuesday meeting. Colantonio said this donation would go towards funding a number of field trips, projects and awards that the school department could not otherwise afford to fund, including: “The generosity of Mr. Stephen Prone and the Prone Family Foundation has …
Phil
7:56 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2012
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