scholarships

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 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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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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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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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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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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