Good Tidings News from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation
Maury Foundation Scholarships
Expanding Upon Tradition
Photo by Glen McClure
Gazing at Maury High School, George Consolvo marvels at how law colleagues in Richmond can’t believe “my connection to my high school” decades after graduation. But ties run deep for this Kaufman & Canoles lawyer, who counts at least 25 family members as alumni of Norfolk’s first public high school, which opened in 1911. George, a 1963 Maury graduate, is board secretary for The Maury Foundation, which is amplifying its scholarship program through a new partnership. In 2017 The Maury Foundation donated $500,000 to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation to establish two permanent Maury Foundation Scholarship funds. The scholarships will be awarded to new Maury Maury Foundation board officers (from left) graduates starting in 2018. For the Peggy Beale, George Consolvo, Jennifer Saunders first time, recipients can renew Pfitzner and Ryan King love their alma mater. scholarships for up to four years of college study. Funds come from hundreds of alumni who donated to The Maury Foundation over the decades. One of the Maury Foundation scholarships is named for the late Oscar Ferebee Jr. (class of 1936), whose wife Sandra memorialized him with a Maury Foundation endowment in 2014. Founded in 1986, The Maury Foundation is among the first charitable foundations in the country created to benefit a single public high school. Attorney Robert Nusbaum (class of 1941) of Williams Mullen led initial fundraising with the late Vincent Thomas (class of 1939), a former Norfolk mayor. The foundation “was a rarity, and we didn’t have any models to follow,” Bob recalls. Over the decades, The Maury Foundation has awarded $150,000 in one-year college scholarships to more than 115 Maury graduates. Partnering with the community foundation “makes sense,” says Maury Foundation board president Ryan King (class of 2004), Imagine what it’s like to send a Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate brokerage THREE kids to college associate. “It’s impressive what we have done before, and at the same time! now we can do more than one-year scholarships.” See page 2 Board treasurer Jennifer Pfitzner Saunders (class of 1997), a partner in Saunders, Matthews & Pfitzner PLLC, says the board wanted to C O N T I N U E D P. 10 award multi-year scholarships
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Recent Grants
................................................. The Hampton Roads Community Foundation recently awarded the following Community Grants from donors’ unrestricted and field-ofinterest funds. .................................................
200+ Men Foundation , $60,000 over
three years from the Ethel T. Jones Fund for the Scholars Academy for at-risk African American male students from Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk.
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Chrysler Museum of Art , $25,000 for
an after-school workshop at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio for area middleschool students.
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Community Outreach Coalition , $25,000 to expand its after-school program to two middle schools in Franklin. The program provides academic support, homework assistance and enrichment in art, music, dance and drama.
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E3: Elevate Early Education , $150,000 over three years to help support efforts to increase kindergarten readiness across Hampton Roads.
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Gateway Homes , $20,000 from the
Benjamin R. Brown Fund for a therapist to treat low-income, uninsured adults with mental illness living in transitional group homes after being discharged from Eastern State Hospital.
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Girls on the Run South Hampton Roads ,
$60,000 over three years to expand to five area Title I schools an after-school program that helps girls in grades three through eight learn to be healthy, fit and confident.
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