SouthCoast Community Foundation Awarding More than $514,000 in Scholarships

May 25, 2022

Supporting sixty-four local students in pursuit of higher education.

 

NEW BEDFORD, MA – Today, 64 local students will gather at the Buttonwood Park Zoo for the SouthCoast Community Foundation scholarship reception to receive their awards totaling more than $514,000. This year’s recipients were chosen from a pool of more than 1100 high school seniors and college students from throughout the region, representing 22 different educational institutions.

“Our annual scholarship reception brings together those who make this work so rewarding and empowering. The funders who make the scholarships possible, the volunteers that spend countless hours reviewing applications, the families that support student achievement, and most importantly, the students who are pursuing higher education,” commented SouthCoast Community Foundation President and CEO, Leonard Lee. “They are the future leaders of our community, and we are so pleased to support them on their journey.”

The scholarship recipients include:

APPONEQUET HIGH SCHOOL
Jonathan Griffith
BISHOP STANG HIGH SCHOOL
Madeline Rivera Carranza
BROCKTON HIGH SCHOOL
Josiah Cora
Danielle Torres
DARTMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
Lindsey Bedard
Ava Cafasso
Kylie daCosta
Austin Muliro
FAIRHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL
Olivia Bernardo
Shawna Raymond
Marina Torres
Nellie Zygiel
FOXBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
Bo Canfield
GLOBAL LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL
Sabrina Costa
Valeria Maldonado
GREATER NEW BEDFORD REGIONAL VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
Courtney Carreiro
Keely Clapp
Katherine Maldonado Montoya
Autumn Racine
Luis Reyes-Ayala
Evan Ziedenburg
HOMESCHOOLED
Victoria Perry
JOSEPH CASE HIGH SCHOOL
Kyle Furtado
Isabella Manchester
LASELLE ACADEMY
Jeffrey Zeng
LYNN ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL
Victory Aziegbe
Annie Kay Joseph
NEW BEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Zachary Bois
Dona Bonnie
Raven DeGrace
Haden Demelo
Mason Ferbert
Tiara Ferreira
Jaiden Gomes Watson
Nalisha Jarvis
Samuel Jupin
Dakota Lobo
Jizaiah Lopes
Taryn Padilla
Isabel Santiago
Addylene Semedo
Kathleen Sprissler
Yireliz Valentin
Emma Warn
Hongyu Zhao
OLD ROCHESTER REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Ethan Perez-Dormitzer
Rosemary Williams
OLIVER AMES HIGH SCHOOL
Mila Broadmeadow
Zachary Tagliamonte
PLYMOUTH NORTH HIGH SCHOOL
Gwyneth Amonte
Gregory Bartlett
Justin Chuong
SAINT MARY’S HIGH SCHOOL
Christa Lajoie
SOMERSET BERKLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Sydney Dufresne
Nicole Ledwidge
TABOR ACADEMY
Owen Sughrue
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS – DARTMOUTH
Anne Jean
Patricia Nsubuga
WAREHAM HIGH SCHOOL
Ethan Cavacas
Adrienne Padden
Kent Silva
WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL
Nathaniel Gifford
Raurie Laliberte
Alexzander Santos

The SouthCoast Community Foundation is a nonprofit serving the communities of Southeastern Massachusetts through philanthropy and is one of the largest aggregators of scholarships in the Southeastern Massachusetts region.  The Community Foundation mission is to mobilize philanthropy by matching donors and resources with community needs for the benefit of our region. Since 1995, the organization has distributed over $50 million from more than 200 funds to humanitarian, educational, and cultural organizations in the region. For more information, visit www.southcoastcf.org.

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