WINDWARD CC - The Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle (LKOC) recently donated $6,000 to fund scholarships at Windward Community College. This gift will be awarded to students during the 2013-2014 academic year.
“As a Windward O‘ahu organization concerned with preserving, protecting and enhancing our environment for future generations, we are pleased to support agriculturally-focused scholarships at Windward Community College,” said Lyn Turner, Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle president. “Our members enjoy meeting ‘our’ students and hope to help many more WindwardCC students in the future.”
This new gift will support existing LKOC scholarships at Windward CC: the LKOC Environment Studies Scholarship and the WCC Agriculture Scholarship. To date, the LKOC Environment Studies Scholarship, established in 2010, has awarded $7,000. The WCC Agriculture Scholarship was established in 1993 and has awarded a total of $21,000 in scholarship support.
"Our students are fortunate to have donors step forward and offer financial help," said Windward Community College Chancellor Doug Dykstra. He continued, "We have many students struggling to pay for tuition, books and fees, so every scholarship gift is critically important to both student success and persistence."
To support students and programs at Windward CC you can make a gift online at www.uhfoundation.org/GiveToWCC
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The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, a nonprofit organization, raises private funds to support the University of Hawaiʻi System. The mission of the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is to unite donors' passions with the University of Hawaiʻi’s aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing private investments to benefit UH, the people of Hawaiʻi and our future generations www.uhfoundation.org.
Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle: Founded in 1912, The Outdoor Circle, a statewide, non-profit, environmental organization, is dedicated to keeping Hawai‘i clean, green and beautiful by preserving, protecting and enhancing our environment for future generations. www.lanikailuaoutdoorcircle.org
