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If you are wondering what to do during July in the way of GFC donations:

HiTekGal wrote:

For four years, the Josh Groban Foundation has given major support to the South Central Scholars SCS (formerly South Central Gifted Scholars Fund SCGSF) (www.scgsf.org). These gifted scholars come from south Los Angeles and have scholarships to attend colleges and universities throughout the US, including U.C. Berkeley, MIT, UCLA, and USC. The SCGSF provides not only the bridge funding to make college enrollment possible, but support services and mentoring, including internships. Last year, 87 new scholars were sent to college under this program.

We are going to do something different this year for the scholars.
Here is what we are going to provide the scholars: A small, attractive pen/pencil cup with a "smiley" face cloth embroidered by Mary Ellen, a pen, a memory stick, a digital alarm clock and possibly some other small item. The package will also contain a generous gift card from the JG Foundation to each scholar, so that they can purchase the necessary dorm supplies at their convenience, either before they leave or when they arrive on campus, and a "best wishes" card from one of the Grobies.

Anyone can contribute to the project by "purchasing" items for the scholars when the Project Drive starts on July 7! You will just need to go to www.grobanitesforcharity.org to get to the project web site, and then "purchase" any of the available items (as "Buy Nows"), including memory sticks (thumb drives), pencil cups, pens, pencils and alarm clocks. GFC will then purchase the items in bulk and we will assemble the gift packages to hand out at the student picnic this summer. A small team of volunteers is already planning to sew some very nice gift bags for the scholars!

If you want to be creative, you can supply the scholars with something small (like key rings, a small flashlight, gum, mints). Please let us know if you plan to make these small purchases so that we can plan the package. I have a few key rings with LED lights and other small items that I will contribute.

If you have already purchased some dorm outfittings for the scholars please contact me. We can make sure that the scholars will receive these additional items.

We have approximately 80 scholars to purchase items for. The GFC website will keep track of the number of purchases so we know exactly how many remain to be purchased.

The drive will run from July 7 through July 25! We tried to select items with a range of costs. We hope everyone will participate!