Wednesday, May 16, 2012


SHS Scholarships Program
(for Springfield, Ohio)
Post Office Box 140
Huddleston, Virginia 24104
800 767-4916  •  Jack@SHSscholarships.com
www.SHSscholarships.com  •  Jack57SHS on twitter

This letter to our friends and area businesses continues our 2012 Campaign for the SHS Scholarships Program for our new SHS grads. Our first objective was to reach out to our donors who made contributions since we started in 2008. Then we began contacting others by letter, twitter, facebook and LinkedIN to ask that everyone become annual donors. We would also ask that you ask one or two classmates, relatives or friends to join you in giving. The table below shows our growth year by year. Our history of giving …

2008 = $700.00
2009 = $2,128.00 = $2,828
2010 = $2,237.10 = $5,065.10
2011 = $2,409.57 = $7,474.67
2012 = $119.57 = $7,594.24

Why contribute? There are many scholarships available for academic excellence for Clark County high school graduates. In comparison, there are only a few scholarships available just for our new SHS grads. The SHS Scholarships Program helps our new grads and it helps Springfield.

Criteria for awards
Service and Leadership. Academic Performance. Need.

Our first goal is to raise $35,000 so that we can begin awarding individual scholarships to our new SHS graduates for trade school, 2 year college and 4 year college. The next financial goals are $500,000 and then $1 million.

It has been estimated that there may be as many as 25,000 living graduates from SHS, Springfield North and Springfield South. If we were to receive just $20.00 from each grad, not to mention their families, we could raise $1 million in just two years.

We ask that you begin a good habit of making annual contributions to the SHS Scholarships Program ... and invite one or two others to join you. Please designate your donations for the SHS Scholarships and mail your annual contribution to:

SHS Scholarships Program
c/o The Springfield Foundation
4 West Main Street, Suite 825
Springfield, Ohio 45502-1323

Please feel free to copy this letter and share it with your classmates, relatives, friends and business colleagues.

Thank you very much for your current and future donations to the SHS Scholarships Program. Best wishes in 2012.

Sincerely yours,

Jack Hutslar

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