donations

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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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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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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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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Donations Needed!

by admin November 10, 2011

Help a Student Out! Or maybe help so many more…. Time is growing shorter till we have reached that magical end of the year. That December 31st date! Time flies by, doesn’t it? This year, for me has been a blur. We are just about to get together with family and friends and sit down for Thanksgiving. Black Friday will kick off the holiday shopping season. The children will be ending up the first half of school and out for winter intersession. December holidays will consume a lot of our time and resources… Busy times. Did you know that 33% […]

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