Scholarships

CFUW Halifax Memorial Scholarship Fund Report

Annual Report 2023/24

MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP WINNER FOR 2023/2024

Mount Saint Vincent University(MSVU) selected and awarded our $1,000 Memorial Scholarship to Alicia Wright in November 2023. She is in the third year of a B.Sc degree in Psychology after returning to study after a gap to raise her son single handedly. She worked as a massage therapist and ran a small yoga studio. She began her degree studies part- time in January 2021 at MSVU so she could continue raising her son and work part-time as a massage therapist to finance her studies. She plans to apply for graduate studies in Clinical Psychology and work in that field. She attended our January general meeting and told us more about her life and career goals.

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SCHOLARSHIP

Our latest financial report from MSVU received in December,2023 for this Endowed scholarship of $25,000 informed us it earned $662.82 of investment income from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023 during it’s first year. Once it has earned income of 10% it will be able to disburse an award annually. Meanwhile we will continue to send MSVU a cheque annually for a $1,000 award from our own funds for them to give to the student they select.

FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES

We held an auction at our March meeting in aid of our scholarship fund and thanks to everyone who gave items to the auction. We are having a YARD SALE on Sat, May 25 at 9am at my home, 6250 Oakland Road, Halifax and the proceeds will go to the scholarship fund. More details will follow and meanwhile please look around your home for items to donate. We’ll be contacting people to help price the items and to volunteer their time to help us on the day.

Many thanks to everyone who gave us financial donations during the year. Carol Bryson, the Treasurer of our scholarship fund will give a separate report on these donations and expenditures in our bank account for the year.

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CFUW Halifax Memorial Scholarship Fund Report

Fall 2022

In March this year our scholarship fund at Mount Saint Vincent University was transferred to an Endowed fund and will now earn investment income.  There is now $25K in the fund.  They cannot award scholarships yet from this fund as we have to wait until it earns 10% in investment income.  They have left $600 in our Expendable fund (earns no income) and we have added $400 from your donations.  We asked them to award a $1000 scholarship this year to an undergraduate.  We can still add to the Endowed fund to increase the amount of the annual award.  Very many thanks to those who gave donations during the year.

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CFUW Halifax Memorial Scholarship Fund Report and News

Fall 2021

The good news is that we have almost reached our fund-raising goal of $25,000 thank to the generous donations from many of you.  This means we will soon be able to change our scholarship type from Expendable to Endowed at Mount Saint Vincent University and receive investment income which will fund the scholarship in perpetuity.

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CFUW Memorial Scholarship

CFUW Halifax awards a $2000 scholarship annually to a female post-secondary student.  The administration of this award is handled by Mount Saint Vincent University.  The following website has details regarding the scholarship.

https://www.msvu.ca/en/home/beamountstudent/money/scholarshipsotherawards/default.aspx

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CFUW Memorial Scholarship for 2018/2019

The CFUW Memorial Scholarship for 2018/19 was awarded to Tammy Lauritsen who is presently enrolled in a B.Sc Honour degree in Mathematics with a double minor in Chemistry and Physics at Mount Saint Vincent University.

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CFUW Memorial Scholarship for 2017/2018

At our July selection meeting we awarded this scholarship to Ping Lu who is presently enrolled in an Inter-Disciplinary Ph.D programme in Comparative Cultural Studies at Dalhousie University. She is in the last stage of writing her thesis after completing her field research into aspects of Ageing and Health in Canada and the People's Republic of China where she was born. 

Submitted by MJ O. Chair

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