Home Lifestyle Richmond Senior students selected for Golden LEAF Scholarships

Richmond Senior students selected for Golden LEAF Scholarships

ROCKY MOUNT — Today, the Golden LEAF Foundation announced that 215 rural North Carolina students were selected to receive up to a $14,000 Golden LEAF Scholarship, including two in Richmond County.

High school seniors entering college as first year students are eligible for a $3,500 scholarship each year for up to four years of undergraduate study at a participating four-year North Carolina college or university. Community college transfer students are eligible for $3,500 a year for up to three years of undergraduate study.

Recipients from rural, tobacco-dependent or economically distressed North Carolina counties are selected based on career and educational goals, a review of school and community service activities, academic performance, length of residence in the county and expressed intent to contribute to the state’s rural communities upon graduation from college.

The Golden LEAF Foundation established the Golden LEAF Scholarship Program to broaden educational opportunities and provide support to students from rural counties with the goal that after graduation recipients will return and contribute back to rural communities. The North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority administers the program and selects students for awards.

“We are proud to award scholarships to hardworking and bright students with deep roots in their rural communities,” said Scott T. Hamilton, Golden LEAF Foundation president, chief executive officer. “These students were selected out of a pool of more than 1,600 applicants. We look forward to the future success of these scholarship recipients as they follow their education pursuits and develop into North Carolina’s next generation of rural leaders.”

“Congratulations to all of the students in my district that have received the Golden LEAF Foundation scholarship,” said Representative Ben Moss. “This is a tremendous honor. We will all benefit from the knowledge and skills these students will bring back to rural North Carolina communities.”

“Congratulations to the students from Richmond County for receiving this award,” said Senator Tom McInnis “Kaitlyn and Kirsten have already demonstrated leadership and strong academic performance. I look forward to hearing of their future success!”

The newly selected 2022-23 Golden LEAF Scholarship recipients are as follows:

Rihmond Senior High School

Kaitlyn Huff – Gardner-Webb University

Kirsten McDonald – North Carolina State University

About Golden LEAF Foundation:

The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to receive a portion of North Carolina’s funding from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers. For more than 20 years, Golden LEAF has worked to increase economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural and tobacco-dependent communities through leadership in grantmaking, collaboration, innovation, and stewardship as an independent and perpetual foundation.

Advertisements

The Foundation has provided lasting impact to tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural areas of the state by helping create 66,000 jobs, over $700 million dollars in new payrolls and more than 90,000 workers trained or retrained for higher wages. Golden LEAF has provided 6,251 scholarships totaling more than $42 million to students from rural communities attending North Carolina’s colleges and universities.

For more information about Golden LEAF and our programs, please visit our website at www.goldenleaf.org.



Previous articleRichmond Senior JROTC cadet presented Sons of the American Revolution award
Next articleRaiders open summer development league with home jamboree