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Five Teens Awarded $1,000 Financial Literacy Scholarship
Thursday, July 28, 2010, People’s Trust Foundation announced the five winners of the 2010 Betty L. Bukowski Financial Literacy Scholarship. These five deserving high school graduates were presented to the People’s Trust Board of Directors and treated to a celebratory lunch at The Plaza Club.
The winners, all children of members or members themselves of People’s Trust Federal Credit Union, were: Miguel Sanchez, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, University of Michigan; Chelsea Purgahn, Kingwood High School, University of Texas at Austin; Charles Purgahn, Kingwood High School, University of Texas at Austin; William Elmore, Stratford High School, Carnegie Mellon University; Cori Speights, Mexia High School, Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
Pictured left to right: William Elmore, Cori Speights,
Miguel Sanchez, Chelsea Purgahn, Charles Purgahn
Winners were selected from a pool of ten applicants based on their GPAs, standardized test scores, extracurricular activities, recommendations and a 500 word essay describing how the recent economic downturn will affect them as a young adult going to college and how, through financial literacy, they can overcome those negative roadblocks in their future. Linda Birt, Executive Director of the Foundation noted that “financial literacy and higher education is more important now for teens and young adults than it has ever been in the past.”
People’s Trust Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that was established in 2006 to advance financial literacy and economic independence among Houstonians. The Foundation offers financial literacy classes and seminars to residents of all socioeconomic backgrounds in the Greater Houston Area and will begin providing down payment assistance grants to families whose only barrier to home ownership is making the down payment. For more information, please visit www.peoplestrustfoundation.org or call Executive Director, Linda Birt at 713-428-3255
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