[blindkid] Fwd: 2012 NJCBVI Board of Trustees/Trenton Thunder Scholarships

[Carol Castellano]

Hello Everyone,

Here is information about scholarship 
opportunities.  Deadline is April 18th.  Good luck to all who apply!

Carol

Carol Castellano
President, Parents of Blind Children-NJ
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
www.blindchildren.org
www.nopbc.org

>Subject: 2012 NJCBVI Board of Trustees/Trenton Thunder Scholarships
>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:55:19 -0500
>
>The Board of Trustees of The New Jersey 
>Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired 
>(NJCBVI) and The Trenton Thunder Baseball Team 
>today announced that they will receive 
>applications for the awarding of two scholarships.
>
>The Nat & Sally Rogoff  Scholarship for Academic 
>Excellence and The Trenton Thunder Scholarship 
>for Leadership and Community Service will be 
>presented  to two  blind or visually impaired 
>students who have demonstrated an outstanding 
>commitment to education, advocacy and/or community involvement.
>
>To be eligible, applicants must be registered to 
>receive services from the NJCBVI and be a high 
>school senior soon-to-be enrolled or a student 
>currently enrolled in an institution of higher 
>learning (2 or 4-year college, community 
>college, trade school, business school or an 
>accredited equivalent higher education institution.)
>
>The Scholarship Selection Committee will review 
>every application and select five finalists who will each be interviewed.
>
>The scholarship awards for 2012 will be $1,000 
>for each of two (2) qualifying students. 
>The  other 3 finalists will each receive a 
>certificate of achievement and $100. The awards 
>which are  entirely funded  by private donations 
>will be presented at The Sixth Annual Blind and 
>Visually Impaired Awareness Night with The 
>Trenton Thunder, on Thursday July 26, 2012 at Waterfront Park in Trenton, NJ.
>
>Further instructions and applications may be 
>obtained from the NJCBVI web site at 
><http://www.cbvi.nj.gov>www.cbvi.nj.gov 
>.   Completed applications, including the 
>submission of the required supporting 
>documentation must be submitted to The NJCBVI 
>Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 47017, Newark, 
>NJ 07101-47017 by April 18, 2012.
>
>Background:
>During their lifetimes, the late Nathan and 
>Sally Rogoff were both well known for their 
>philanthropy and dedication to helping others, 
>especially young people who were blind or 
>visually impaired. Mr. Rogoff served on the 
>NJCBVI Board of Trustees for over 30 years and 
>was one of the founders of Camp Marcella.
>
>The Trenton Thunder is the Double “A” Affiliate 
>team for the New York Yankees. Every year since 
>2006, in partnership with NJCBVI and the NJ 
>State Library Talking Book and Braille Center, 
>the Thunder have hosted a “Blind and Visually 
>Impaired Awareness Night” during a regularly 
>scheduled home game played at Waterfront Park, in Trenton, NJ.
>
>
>Pamela L. Gaston
>Executive Assistant 3
>NJ State Department of Human Services
>Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
>P.O. Box 47017
>Newark, NJ 07101-47017
>
>973-648-6149 – Office
>973-900-2564 – Cell
>973-648-2043 – Fax
>
>Visit us on the web at: <http://www.cbvi.nj.gov/>www.cbvi.nj.gov
>
>“From the start, I made my learning, what little 
>there was, as useful as I could, in every way 
>that I could.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
>
>This E-mail, including any attachments, may be 
>intended solely for the personal and 
>confidential use of the sender and recipient(s) 
>named above. This message may include advisory, 
>consultative and/or deliberative material and, 
>as such, would be privileged and confidential 
>and not a public document. Any Information in 
>this e-mail identifying a client of the 
>Department of Human Services is confidential. If 
>you have received this e-mail in error, you must 
>not review, transmit, convert to hard copy, 
>copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any 
>attachments to it and you must delete this 
>message. You are requested to notify the sender by return e-mail.