Archive for February, 2012
February 26, 2012 @ 7:00 pm -
Ava’s Grace Scholarship Foundation is providing HOPE to young people who have dreams of higher education and a different life. Our mission is to break the cycle of incarceration through the gift of education. Beginning in 2012, Ava’s Grace Scholarship Foundation will award scholarships to children who have an incarcerated parent or primary care giver in the State of Missouri.
Having a parent incarcerated is a loss that can last a lifetime for a child. This loss gives the gift of low self-esteem, the stigma of having a parent in prison, the strain of economic distress and most of all separation anxiety and distance from a loved one. Society has forgotten about the children these parents have left behind.
To date most of the funds targeting children of the incarcerated are aimed at children age 12 to 17 for after school, mentoring and sports programs. While getting these children through high school is a very noble goal, there is NO other organization in existence focused on scholarships for higher education for this at-risk population – until now.
We at Ava’s Grace Scholarship Foundation are on a mission to give these unique and deserving children a path to a different future! Click here to meet the Class of 2012 Scholars–Cari Hill of Webster Groves High School in St. Louis and McKenzie Lockett of Princeton High School in Princeton, MO! Caril Hill is enrolled and thriving at William Jewell College and McKenzie Lockett is enrolled and excelling at the University of Missouri Columbia.
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This is an educational issue – it is a known fact that education is the key to keeping people out of prison. This is a workforce issue – if we can help these young people learn a skill we can put them to work instead of out on the streets. This is MORAL issue – these children, through no fault of their own, are forced to give up their dreams due to the bad decisions of their parents and a broken system.
Please donate TODAY. Your gracious donation will change a life!
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Ava’s Grace was recognized as the recipient of free legal services in MO Lawyers Weekly. Click here for the full article.
February 7, 2012 @ 10:01 am -
Ava’s Grace Founder, Stephanie Regagnon, recoginized as “40 Under 40″ by the St. Louis Business Journal (St. Louis Business Journal, January 27, 2012)
NEW! Register for the Ava’s Grace “2013 Taking Flight” Event!
Click here to go to the event page and register for the Ava’s Grace 2nd Annual “2013 Taking Flight: Hope for the Future" Scholarship Event