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Clay Delivers $10,000 to Scioto Foundation/Clay Legacy Scholarship Fund 
Clay Legacy Scholarship Fund has its own website

Clay Alumni Association Vice-President LaRue Horsley and a delegation from Clay High School delivered a check for $10,000 to the Scioto Foundation on January 2, starting the New Year by fulfilling a major commitment to their partnership in the Foundation’s new UCAN or University/College Access Network Program.

Accompanying Horsley in the presentation to SF Executive Director Kim Cutlip was Todd Warnock, Clay HS principal; Donnie Caseman, school board member; and Mark Rose, teacher, athletic director, and district public relations coordinator.

Under the UCAN plan, the Clay Schools’ $10,000 will be matched by $10,000 from the Scioto Foundation to help grow the Clay Schools’ Legacy Endowment Fund in a dramatic fashion. All Scioto County schools participating in the UCAN program are eligible for a match up to $10,000 each year for their scholarship endowment funds invested with the Foundation.

“With school systems supporting the UCAN program, the goals will be met,” Horsley said, adding that now the Clay Schools will be working toward a target of $15,000 per year for the future with the combined efforts of the school system and the alumni association. He noted the good cooperation from the schools for all their donations to the annual auction fundraiser.

Seven years ago the Clay Alumni Association joined the Scioto Foundation’s POEM or Program for Organizational Endowment Making, a program to assist groups in building permanent endowment funds.

“The Foundation has helped realize the dream that the alumni association envisioned in its long-range plan,” said Horsley. “We already had some growing opportunities for raising funds and the POEM program fit our goals well. Now the UCAN program is going to give us not only our goal, but a system that will continue to increase funds for scholarships.”

“Someday I don’t think Clay will have any problems giving a scholarship to every Clay student who gets accepted to college,” Horsley commented.

“Our goal is to get kids through college; that is the culmination of what the Clay Schools are working for,” stated Warnock, who thanked Horsley for all he has done for the schools.

The Clay Alumni Association has worked hard to raise funds each year,” commented Cutlip. “Each year LaRue has appeared on January 2 with an annual check to increase their endowment. Partnerships between alumni associations and schools like this one at Clay are what will make the UCAN plan work.”

Clay’s funds for 2008-2009 included $2,700 from a portion of basketball gate receipts; $4,700 from the alumni association’s yearly auction of goods and services contributed by local businesses, individuals, school alumni and the schools themselves; school payroll deductions from the administration, faculty, staff and students; and proceeds from the alumni association’s annual banquet.

“After the first five years of the UCAN plan, we hope to be able to bump the challenge up to $12,500 and potentially beyond to a $20,000 per year match for the schools,” Cutlip said.

“What you are doing here is going to make footprints for many other community groups,” Horsley told Cutlip.

Source:  Kim Cutlip, executive director, Scioto Foundation

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