Four Nebraska Organizations Benefit from EducationQuest Foundation Grants --
November 20, 2003
Four Nebraska organizations are recipients of $78,000 in community grants
recently awarded by EducationQuest Foundation.
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EducationQuest Awards Over $114,000 in Community Grants --
July 28, 2003
Organizations based in Omaha, Lincoln, North Platte and Schuyler will share
over $114,000 in community grants recently awarded by EducationQuest
Foundation.
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EducationQuest Foundation Awards $41,500 in “Reaching Your Potential”
Scholarships --
June 30, 2003
EducationQuest recently disbursed $41,500 in renewable Reaching Your Potential
scholarships among twelve Nebraskans who have demonstrated a desire to improve
their lives, and the lives of others, through higher education.
Complete article
EducationQuest Awards Over $100,000 in Community Grants --
May 16, 2003
Organizations based in Omaha, Lincoln, Broken Bow and Fremont will share over
$100,000 in community grants recently awarded by EducationQuest Foundation.
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EducationQuest Foundation Awards $850,000 in Scholarship Funds to Nebraska
Colleges --
May 9, 2003
EducationQuest Foundation has awarded $850,000 in need-based scholarship funds
to thirty-two Nebraska public and not-for-profit colleges. The schools will
disburse the scholarship funds to eligible students for the 2003-04 academic
year.
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Four Nebraska Guidance Counselors Receive EducationQuest Scholarship --
April 11, 2003
EducationQuest Foundation has selected four Nebraska high school guidance
counselors to receive its 2003 Guidance Counselor Enrichment Scholarship. They
are Kathleen Cruise from St. Edward Public School; Cliff Jorgensen from Alma
Public School; William Roundey from Lincoln Lutheran Junior/Senior High School;
and Susan Thomas from Dorchester Public School.
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EducationQuest Names New Members to Advisory Council --
March 13, 2003
EducationQuest Foundation has named three new members to its Advisory Council -
a group of statewide education and community representatives who help advise
the foundation on its scholarship programs, community grants program and
college planning services. They are T.J. McDowell, Executive Director of
Lighthouse, Inc. in Lincoln; Rebecca Valdez, Executive Director of the Chicano
Awareness Center in Omaha; and Doug Watson, interim Vice-President for
Enrollment Management at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont.
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February is Financial Aid Month --
February 1, 2003
February is Financial Aid Month and EducationQuest Foundation wants to remind
college-bound Nebraskans that free services are available to help them complete
and file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
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EducationQuest Foundation Awards $27,000 in "Reaching Your Potential"
Scholarships --
January 16, 2003
Marilyn Hajek from Sidney works 50 hours a week, deals with her husband's
serious illness, helps farm their land, cares for her daughter and wheel-chair
bound nephew, and makes quilts for fundraisers. Determined to make caring for
others her career, Marilyn is working toward a degree in Human Services from
Western Nebraska Community College. She is accomplishing that goal with the
help of a $2,500 Reaching Your Potential scholarship from
EducationQuest Foundation.
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