Putnam County Dollars for Scholars selected for award

Dollars for Scholars of Putnam County (Cloverdale Community Dollars for Scholars, Greencastle Alumni Dollars for Scholars, North Putnam Alumni Association Dollars for Scholars, South Putnam Dollars for Scholars) is excited to announce that it has received a Dr. Irving Fradkin Legacy Student Support Award of $15,000 from Scholarship America, the nation's largest provider of private scholarships. With the cost of attending college continuing to rise, the grant will help the Dollars for Scholars affiliates support students by providing opportunities to receive careers and educational pursuits.

Delivering impactful student support, honoring organization founder Irving Fradkin's bold vision for communities to join together, and fund scholastic services to our students, colleges and trade school visits, scholarships and more.

This is one of just four scholarship across the nation selected for a 2025 Fradkin Legacy Award.

The Dollars for Scholars of Putnam County was selected for the Award because its work best exemplified two vital principles on behalf of scholarship impactful student support.

Building and expanding community partnerships.

Vivian Whitaker, secretary and scholarship administrator for the Cloverdale Community Dollars for Scholars, spoke on behalf of the local scholarship board to share appreciation of this award.

"It will help us provide more impactful services to our students, college and trade school visits, scholarships and the nights for parents and students, and increased scholarship applications," Whitaker said.

"These opportunities will make our local scholarships even more impactful and help lessen a student's financial worries so they can spend more time focused on their studies."

For more than 60 years, Scholarship America has helped community groups and organizations across the nation establish and operate Dollars for Scholars. This network of locally based organizations provides helps prepare thousands of students and families helping them the local access and complete their college certifications or career pathways.

With 80 percent of American families saying scholarships make it possible for their students to attend college, these local awards are a critical piece of the financial aid puzzle—reducing student debt, filling in funding gaps and letting them know their community values behind them as they strive to achieve their academic goals.

Scholarship America is a nonprofit organization that helps students pursue their dream by eliminating barriers to educational success. Since it was founded in 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $5.4 billion to 3.1 million students, making it the nation's largest private scholarship provider. The organization runs their own national and community-based scholarship programs and works with partners wishing to establish scholarship and support programs.

They empower an inclusive where those with the most need have the opportunity to thrive through equitable pathways to education and training.

Learn more at scholarshipamerica.org.

Information following websites: Cloverdale Community Dollars for Scholars: Cloverdale.DollarsforScholars.org

Greencastle Alumni Dollars for Scholars: GreencastleAlumni.DollarsforScholars.org

North Putnam Alumni Association Dollars for Scholars: NorthPutnam.DollarsforScholars.org

South Putnam Dollars for Scholars: SouthPutnam.DollarsforScholars.org