Az4Education

Big Thank-you!

by admin April 16, 2013

It is hard to believe that another tax season has come and gone! This is our third season and third year as an Scholarship Tuition Organization (STO). We would like to share a big thank-you to everyone that we have talked, emailed or even our website has had interactions with. Because of all of you, we are very happy with our overall progress to date. This year has been something special – well, our fiscal year is actually over 6/30/2013 (we still have a couple of months). As we are sitting down this week to plan out next fiscal year, we […]

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You Still Have Time – Till April 15th

by admin March 21, 2013

Do you know that you can still get 2012 tax credit for donations made up to April 15th? That’s right! One of the reasons that most people struggle with making donations is the amount of time that in-between the donation and receiving credit.  We are very lucky in Arizona. Our legislature recognized that and we now can make donations at the beginning of the year just before you file your taxes (and it still counts that donation for the previous year).  This changes the donation deadline to April 15th instead of December 31st, or prior to when you file your […]

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AZ4Education Online Donations

by Brian January 27, 2013

What’s new or improved at AZ4Education? Online donations! Today, any donator can recommend their dollars be given to a General scholarship fund, an individual School scholarship fund, or even an individual Student, both online and off.     This means you have a say in how you want your dollars to be spent.   On behalf of those families, schools, and others impacted by your generosity, AZ4Education thanks you! How does it work? When you recommend a single school, we send an email to the school director of financial aid so they can let their enrolled student families know to apply.    Also, […]

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AZ4Education Dashboard for Registered Members

by Brian January 26, 2013

What’s new or improved at AZ4Education? How about our dashboard! Most of the time we use our computers to make life easier and more fulfilling.   WE like to think AZ4Education is helping you make life a little easier too.  So what is a dashboard and how does it help you?    The term dashboard is what we like to call our user interface for registered members.     In the strictest sense of the word, the dashboard is a screen that shows you summary information or status of what’s going on.   In other words, things you might want to know about regarding […]

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AZ4Education Online Scholarship Application Process

by Brian January 25, 2013

What’s new or improved at AZ4Education? For starters, online scholarships! Our process allows you to submit your application online rather than deal with the printed copy, fax/mail routine (although you can still do that). The online application lets you enter information in a standard simplified form.   You are can apply for up to 5 students, attach/upload documents, add individual student or family comments and more.   All information is kept secure, private and any optional uploaded critical records are purged when completed. Applying online will reduce your time filling out your application and if you register with us, you can make […]

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What’s New or Improved at AZ4Education?

by Brian January 24, 2013

Our team of volunteers are always looking for ways to help others and this includes how we manage scholarship and donations with you.   For example, how important is your time?    We all have 24 hours in a day, but when we stop to look at what is important, there never is enough time!   That’s why AZ4Education is working hard to support your goals to get the best education and cherish those valuable moments more. This is one blog in a series of blogs to tell you about the enhancements we are making and have made.   Continuous improvements are necessary for […]

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January is Collection Month

by admin January 11, 2013

We all go through most of January with the sense that the holidays are over, the kids are back in school and our mailbox gets filled up with all of our important tax information. Hence I call it collection month. We go to the mailbox and pull out all of those important documents and put them in our favorite tax collection method. For me, it is a shoe box. After all of the documents are in, we either work on our taxes or we have someone that prepares them for us.  It is always an interesting event – taxes. We […]

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Spring 2013 Scholarships Awarded

by admin December 17, 2012

Our spring scholarships have been awarded! Email notification to all scholarship recipients were sent out December 15! If you received the email, congratulations. If you did not receive an email notification, we truly wish that we could have done more. We continue to see more applications on every deadline that we have from the previous year. For me, it breaks my heart not to give everyone that is deserving a scholarship. Our promise to everyone. The volunteer staff will continue to increase our efforts in gathering as many donations as possible. We would like nothing more than to increase our […]

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