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Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is committing $7.8 million over the next four years to fund college scholarships for students in Arizona and Indiana whom traditional scholarship programs typically overlook.
"This commitment of $7.8 million will provide scholarships to 168 more men and women over the next four years," said Frank E. Russell, chairman of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. "The Nina Scholars have faced incredible challenges in their lives and many of the Scholars we have met since the program began in 2001 have told us that without the Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholars program they would not have realized the dream of a college education," Russell added.
The program extension includes full tuition, an annual $2,750 living allowance for each Scholar, books, and class fees. It also covers the program’s administrative cost and funding a full-time Nina Scholar coordinator at each school who provides counseling and assistance to the scholars.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust began making grants to Arizona nonprofits in 1998 and has distributed more than $62 million to 303 Arizona nonprofit organizations. "The Scholars program is a living legacy to Nina who believed that with an education, there was nothing an individual could not achieve," said Pulliam's niece and Trustee Carol Peden Schilling.
Posted on March 6, 2007 12:57 PM
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