On May 18, 2022, the Rotary Club of Colonial Park Foundation will award $82,000 in scholarships to 31 high school students from the five schools in their area.  This year, the Foundation received 339 applications from students for the 21 different scholarships available.  Randy Sibert, President of the Foundation said, “this was a record number of scholarships for us and an increase of 141 scholarship applications more than last year.”  Scholarship amounts ranged from $500 to $21,000.

 

Since 2002, the Rotary Club of Colonial Park and the Foundation have given $254,900 to organizations in the community and $688,908 in scholarships for a total in 2022 of $943,808.  The Rotary Club is anticipating going over the one-million-dollar mark in 2023!