The results of your generosity
It’s not always the case to see the direct results of your donation when you give to a nonprofit. When you give to the Faculty Foundation for Maricopa Community Colleges, your donation has a direct impact to students in need. The results are immediate.
Dear Dr. Vaughan,
Just last week I was ashamed and embarrassed to have to approach my professors concerning my finances and enrollment status. Today, because of the immediate response by those professors, I can end this semester with my only worry being my final exam grades.
Video message by Tiffany Covington.
Dear Maricopa Colleges Faculty Foundation,
I want to thank each and everyone involved in helping my family and me when we were desperately trying to figure out what to do. We were in the process of being evicted for not being able to pay the rent for the month of January due to my husband’s check being garnished as I mentioned in my request for help.
Handwritten note from Doreen Devoy-Hulgan.
To whom it may concern,
I would like to thank the Maricopa Colleges Faculty Foundation for the $131.00 emergency grant to help pay to get a new alternator for my truck. Without this I would have not been able to afford to fix my truck and therefore I also would have not been able to get to school. Now my truck is fixed and my schooling can continue. I was shocked when my teacher told me the grant was accepted. Words cannot express how thankful I truly am. Thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
Hazel Brown
Handwritten thank you from Andrea Berning.
To the board of maricopa colleges faculty foundation:
Thank you very much for your generous donation of funds during my time of need. I was lost with no where to turn and the board stepped in and helped me overcome my distressing hardship. The funds will able me to be more successful during my college experience to obtain my career goal. If there is ever anything you would like me to do for the foundation please let me know and I will be more than happy to help.
Thank you very much
Angela Coleman
Dear Dr. Reed,
Thank you, the scholarship money it could not have come at a better time. Because I’m currently paying out of state tuition I was forced to make a payment plan for this and all other semesters I’ve attended Glendale Community College. The 250 dollars are going to be deposited in my school account and will help cover most of my payment for the month of November, which is an enormous help for my single parent, mom. The Maricopa College Faculty Foundation has made me realize that higher education is available for all student who have the motivation and appreciation for education. Once again thank you.
Sincerely,
Wendy Respardo
Dear Ms. Reilly,
My heart and mind is so filled with thankfulness, I cannot hold back the tears. I have never been in a situation where I felt so helpless. Honesty, I was going to bed hungry and waking up the same. I learned to live off of peanut butter and jelly, cereal and be thankful. However, when the lights and all utilities went out, I was devastated. My whole returning back to school at my age came out of being laid off and realizing that the skills I was trained in years ago became obsolete in today’s society.
Dear Janice,
I greatly appreciate the help that you and the faculty have provided to me so I could try to get rid of this strep/tonsillitis. I have been battling this ailment for about two months and unfortunately now without insurance, it was becoming very hard to afford with my rent drawing near on the first. I now should be able to attend urgent care on Friday and hopefully get back on track to fighting this illness. I wouldn’t be able to be on a fast track to recovery without your help, so I could not thank you and everyone involved enough for your support.
Sincerely,
Michael T. Williams
I am writing this letter to express my gratitude for the Emergency Scholarship fund. What this scholarship means to me, words cannot even express, especially since I am a single father of three, and a member of the first generation of eight in my family to graduate and go to college. I am currently a full time student at SMCC, taking 14 credits this fall semester of 2012. Although I am unemployed at the moment I never stop looking for work. I expect to start receiving unemployment of $ 75 a week, starting in a week or so, not to be expecting my student loan check until around 9/17/2012. To say the least, I am not sure what I and my family would have done without this scholarship and others like it. I just wanted to say huge thanks from me and my family. This scholarship fund has allowed me to stay in school, when otherwise I would have not been able to do so. With my bills, kids, and the loss of my mother, my situation went from bad to worst very quickly, I am so glad there are programs like such in place for people in my situation the fund is truly a blessing.
Sincerely,
Tylon Williams
Whom It May Concern:
I find it difficult to find the right words to express my sincere appreciation for your generosity. However, I will do my best.
For you to understand how much what you have done for me means to me I feel you must first see the position I was in. I was in a severe economic situation due to having to leave an abusive relationship which ended in divorce. Because of the divorce I had to file for bankruptcy. I found myself in a catch twenty-two situation. I am on a special program through the Kingman Unified School District in which I am to complete a series of courses through Rio Salados on line school. This program, once completed grants me certification for teaching. I have been working full time and “attending” school full time for four years, as well as recently adjusting to being a single parent. If I was unable to acquire the funds needed for the books required for my final courses my window of opportunity to become a licensed and certified teacher for KUSD would have been revoked. Thus, all the years and work I’ve put into achieving my goal of becoming a teacher would have been for naught.
Dear Ms. Reilly,
Please, excuse my tardiness in sending you and the Mesa College Foundation Board my deepest heartfelt gratitude for funding the $238 that Mr. Felnagle brought before you to get me the money to fix my saw and some firewood to get me through the cold until my saw part gets here from back order: I have just now received your email address. I cannot tell you how much difference it has made to be warm. I do not know if I would have been able to continue successfully with school without it. As it is, the very generous gift brought some new life to me and I have managed to slightly raise my grades (2 As and a B). I will never forget what you, the Foundation, Mr. Felnagle, and the school have done for me. Please, convey this to the board for me. Thank you, so very much. It was so much more and from a source than I could have ever expected; and it got here just in time to get me through the big snow storm up here in northern AZ.
Very sincerely,
Bob Longest
Dear Janice,
I just wanted to send you a Thank You for your kindness and your effort in getting this money to me that you did. It is not everyday that you find so many people who are so happy and willing to help in one place and for one cause. I feel like Professor Lara, Jason, yourself and any others involved did so much more for me than I EVER would have expected. I was truly blessed by Estrella Mountain Comm. College and Maricopa Community Colleges.
Thank You Again.
Pamela Tucci
I wanted to thank you for the $850 that paid for the outstanding balance of my tuition the Fall 2011 semester. You have given me the opportunity to stay enrolled in school in order to continue my education and actively apply to Universities for Fall 2012.
I want to assure you that I’m working hard to give back to Mesa Community College and the community. I’m currently serving as Psi-Beta president (the national honors society in psychology for community and junior colleges), a member of Phi-Theta Kappa, and the honors college. I have been an active advocate in increasing membership and student interest within all organizations.
I, as well as Psi-Beta, am actively involved in student government. We are dedicated to working together with other club groups and organizations to promote and support one another. One of our successes, from teaming up with other clubs, has been passing a bill for the homecoming dance. We see this as an opportunity for Mesa students to gather and get to know one another in a fun and safe environment. Also, we are currently working to preserve students social media rights. It’s our belief that if social media is restricted, students will spend less time on campus. This is not beneficial for students in many ways. The most important way being, it has been shown the less time students spend on campus then the less likely they are to complete their programs/degrees. Our goal is to keep students on campus and therefore active in school.
