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PROGRAM NOTES
CORE PROGRAMS
• Distributions as of June 17, 2024 - $ 0
• Palm Beach Atlantic University
PBAU’s spring report is attached.
• Children of UPS employees
As previously reported, progress toward revising the funding structure of this scholarship program is ongoing. At JSF’s request, attorney Nat Nason has drafted a consent document and proposed revisions to JSF’s bylaws to be signed by the appropriate UPS representative. Efforts are under way to direct these documents to an authorized person with the assistance of UPS’s highest-ranking executive in Florida, whom Bobby met previously.
Meanwhile, Scholarship America has begun notifying the 48 new and 93 renewing scholarship recipients of their awards for the 2024-2025 academic year.
• State University System of Florida
The annual meeting in Tampa on June 7 was a positive time of networking and information sharing. A report of the meeting is attached.
Additionally attached is the spring report from the Board of Governors.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PROGRAMS
• Distributions as of June 17, 2024 - $ 700,000
• Craig Smith
“The board of directors at Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) has selected long-time employee Craig Smith as the new president of FPCC. Mr. Smith is the college’s seventh president in the history of the institution, which was chartered by the Fort Peck Tribes in 1978 and is located on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana.”
https://tribalcollegejournal.org/smith-selected-as-president-of-fort-peck-community-college/
This name may sound familiar to you as Craig was the long-time coordinator of the JSF Entrepreneurship Scholarship Program at FPCC. And, like the 6th President of FPCC (Haven Gourneau), Craig is a graduate of the Gonzaga University MBA-AIE program. (Haven was in Cohort #I. Craig was in Cohort #II.)
• Entrepreneurship Scholarships
The applications for awards for 2024 have been received. Bobby, Sherry, Rick and the staff will be meeting to review these and make decisions regarding the individual awards to the schools.
DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS
• Distributions as of June 17, 2024 - $1,311,896
• Eye to Eye
King represented the Foundation at Eye to Eye’s 25th Anniversary Gala. Bea was in attendance also as a member of the Eye to Eye Board.
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