Sunday, December 20, 2009

Prison Scholar Fund Awards

Two confined acceptance accustomed funds to advice with their charge from the Prison Scholar Fund.

Bothell, WA -- Two confined acceptance accustomed funds to advice with their charge and fee costs from the Prison Scholar Fund, which was founded by an confined student.

Receiving the 2006 Dirk Van Velzen Scholarship are Michael E. Williams, an bedfellow at the Tamms Supermax Facility in Tamms, IL, and Jeffrey Sacik, an bedfellow at SCI Greene, in Waynesburg, PA. The Prison Scholar Fund, a nonprofit alignment founded by a currently confined Penn State World Campus student, presented the award. Michael Williams is application his funds to awning charge and book costs for a Civil Law specialty advance he is demography at the Blackstone Career Institute through ambit education. Mr. Williams aswell afresh completed a paralegal advance at Blackstone.

Jeffrey Sacik is application his accolade to pay for acceptance tests to become a accountant certified HVAC technician. Mr. Sacik is demography his tests through ambit apprenticeship at Ferris State University’s HVACR Institute in Big Rapids, MI.

These scholarships represent the additional annular of awards presented by the Prison Scholar Fund. The latest awards were fabricated accessible in allotment due to a donation from David and Carol Myers in Michigan. Mr. Myers is a assistant of attitude at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

A Rand stdudy assured that apprenticeship is the a lot of cost-effective abomination blockage affairs available. Translated into savings, every dollar spent on apprenticeship allotment added than two dollars to the citizens in bargain bastille costs. Dirk Van Velzen, an confined apprentice at the Florence Corrections Center in Arizona, noticed the charge to advice added confined acceptance who accept been aggravating abominably to acquiesce academy tuition. “We all accept the admiration to accomplish our association a bigger abode in which to live,” Dirk states, “no amount which association we acquisition ourselves active in.”

About the Prison Scholar Fund
The Prison Scholar Fund raises money through fund-raising activities such as its calendar, abrasion pad, and coffee mug sales, which affection assets from confined artists. It aswell accepts contributions from accumulated and alone sponsors. Dirk Van Velzen, currently a inferior advancing degrees in business administering and authoritative administration at Penn State, founded the fund. He was afresh presented with Penn State’s President Sparks Award, which is presented annually to sophomores with a accumulative 4.00 GPA. In addition, he has afresh been nominated by the University for the Penn State Trustee’s scholarship, which is accustomed to a bound amount of students.

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