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We Partnered With Promote Together

by admin October 9, 2012

We are very excited to announce a partnership with Promote Together to help raise funding for scholarships. Promote Together is a very simple, easy to use crowd funding concept for schools to raise donations that can be applied to scholarships. Crowd funding is the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their resources to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. We will be the first STO to use this crowd funding model for all schools. We view this as an opportunity for the schools to have a more active role in fund raising for scholarships. We also […]

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Scholarships and the new Switcher Credit

by Brian October 1, 2012

For those of you who are interested in supporting school choice and have given to AZ4Education or other STO’s, you might have already heard, but in case you haven’t, you can now give twice as much to AZ4Education and it still doesn’t cost you a dime!     That means twice as many tax credits to donators and 2x more dollars for families. For those who are interested in applying for a scholarship, the process hasn’t changed, it just has a few more qualifications and questions.   In short, we used to have one bucket to pull from for scholarships but now we […]

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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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Tax Credits – Real Examples of How It Works

by Brian December 1, 2011

To help illustrate how the Arizona tax credit can benefit you, we created a few scenarios to help understand the benefits for donators.   However, be sure you contact a tax expert/adviser to get more information for your individual situation. Mr. Bell*1 Ms. Goodman*2 Mr. & Ms. Sanders*3 Mr. & Ms. Treglia*4 Filing Status Single Single Married Married AZ Taxes Withheld $600 $300 $1,600 $800 Actual AZ Tax Liability ($705) ($250) ($1,350) ($800) Net Tax Liability Refund (Due) ($105) $50 $250 $0 Amount Donated to AZ4Education $500 $300 $1,000 $900 AZ Tax Credit $500 $300 $1,000 $900 Tax Refund (Due) […]

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