Fall 2012 Semester Scholarships Awarded

by admin July 17, 2012

What a difference a year makes! This year we received over 200% more scholarship applications than 2011. As a board member and volunteer for Az4Education it makes me proud to award as many scholarships to deserving students and families as possible. After reviewing ALL of the applications we have selected the scholarship recipients. Email notification to all scholarship recipients was sent out July 16! If you received the email, congratulations. If you did not receive an email notification, we truly wish that we could have done more. With the overwhelming number of applicants this year, we revisited our budget and […]

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How our Scholarship Selection Process Works

by Brian July 5, 2012

For the 2012 fall enrollment of private k-12 schools, we received 5 times as many scholarship applications than we did the same time last year.     And, we were pleased to be able to award many of those applicants, because of the generous donations made to AZ4Education by helpful residents and companies. Because our scholarship selection process is such a critical part of our process, we thought it would be helpful to explain how this process actually works and help those applying in the future. Our selection committee is comprised of compassionate minded individuals whose goal is to allocate funds to […]

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Law Makers call it Switcher Credit – but we call it EXTRA Credit!

by Brian May 8, 2012

Great news for Arizona students, schools, donators and everyone else!    The State legislation passed a bill (SB1047) that goes into effect this year (2012) as A.R.S 41-1089.03. What is so great about this new law? This new law doubles the amount of maximum tax credit you can take!   The “original” tax credit allowed a maximum of $500/$1000 for single/married tax filers, but for tax year 2012, you can donate up to $1003/$2006 to a School Tuition Organization (STO), such as AZ4Education.    This is being called the “switcher credit”, but we are going to be referring to it as “EXTRA” credit. […]

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Shopping Online

by admin March 30, 2012

How many people shop online? More and more people that I talk to, would rather shop online then go out to strip malls or the malls in general. I have started to do more of this myself. We have partnered with Market America/Shop.com to set up an AZ4Education portal for you do to your shopping. Market America/Shop.com is one of the largest online retailers for consumers worldwide, featuring exclusive products and services (Market America brands) along with offering products from more than 3500 top Internet retailers. Making up to about 50 million products and services. With that number of products […]

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AZ4Education Gets A Major Facelift

by admin March 14, 2012

The team is very proud of the work that has been going on with our new site. We welcome you to the redesigned new and improved AZ4Education website. Getting started is our way to help guide the user around the site. If you are a potential donor – everything you wanted to know or were afraid to ask, should be there. Parents, we have a page to help you. What to find a private school – they are under schools. If all else fails, we have a FAQ section to help. That question is not there, submit your question and […]

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Meet Brian

by Brian December 28, 2011

As Steve Bell said in the previous blog post, we are running a series of posts to tell you a bit  about ourselves, which is like trying to write a novel in Sanskrit for me. I went to college at Colorado State University in Fort Collins Colorado and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.    Every summer break, I would go back to IBM as an intern and save enough money to help pay for some items in school.    After college, I got a job for National Semiconductor in Utah and worked there for 3 years. Intel was […]

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Meet Steve

by admin December 22, 2011

As part of getting to know your Az4Education Board and folks behind the scenes, we are going to write a little bit about ourselves. Since I like to blog, I get to go first. I plan on going over a few things about me, why I got interested in Az4Education and what I would like to see in the future. This by far is not an easy exercise for most people, I am included in the most. Hello! My name is Steve Bell.  For most of my adult life, I have worked at Intel Corporation (28.5 years to be exact). […]

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Press Release – Az4Education Helping Hundreds of Arizona Students

by Brian December 1, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AZ4Education Helping Hundreds of Arizona Students AZ4Education is an Arizona non-profit school tuition organization (STO). Their mission: to make private education an affordable option for every family.  With AZ4Education and contributions from everyone, hundreds of Arizona students will have the benefit of scholarships in 2012.  The staff volunteers their time and talents, which makes this a great non-profit to support and follow. Phoenix, Arizona December 1, 2011 – Children are the future and an important part of their development is education.   To help fuel this future, AZ4Education plans to raise a million dollars in 2012 to help hundreds of […]

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