Summer 2016
Northwest Ohio
Scholarship Fund
Board of Trustees 2016
Richard LaValley, Jr. – Chair
Mary Arquette
Gregory Black
Raquel Bravo
Scott Brown
Suzette Cowell
Sr. Janet Doyle
Greg Guzman
Sean Jorgensen
Mary Moran Mancini
Rita Martin
Philip McWeeny
Drew Nitschke
Markus Rasmus
Kim Sofo
Dianne Tankoos
Ann Riddle
Executive Director
NOSF Advisory Council
John Bachey
Jane Charette
Eugene Harms
David J. Livingston
Scott Savage
Robert C. Savage
John Szuch
Mary Werner
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magine one million pennies. That is how many pennies students
collected during the first ever Pennies to Dollars for Scholars penny
war. The event raised $15,463 from 21 partner
schools for the Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund.
Pennies to Dollars for Scholars took place the
Everybody got into the act
week of April 25-29 at many of NOSF’s partner
with the Pennies to Dollars
schools. The grades at each school competed with for Scholars effort including
one another by seeing who could bring in the
the different car dealers at
most pennies. It was a huge success!
Taylor Automotive. They
Schools got into the
had pink piggy banks at
spirit with different
five of their dealerships and
incentives to motivate
raised a total of $239.68 in
the children to bring in
pennies. Even the window
pennies including having
tellers at Waterford Bank
different themes for each had a collection during the
day like sports day or hat
week of the fundraiser and
day. Some of the
collected $97.
teachers turned the
fundraiser into a math lesson for their students.
Monclova Christian kicked off the week by
dropping off two buckets of pennies on day one of
the competition. They held their penny war a week earlier due to student
testing. The schools had some flexibility as to how they did the fundraiser. Toledo
Christian opted out of the Penny War and raised $519 with a jeans day.
St. Rose in Perrysburg collected the most pennies during the week with a total
of $2,532. Central City Ministry of Toledo school Queen of Apostles raised $579 in
pennies from their students. Pretty impressive considering 93% of the students at
Queen qualify for free or reduced lunch.
NOSF is also grateful for Taylor Automotive’s
sponsorship of this area-wide fundraiser.
It covered the
school prizes
and any other
costs associated
with the event.
Steve Taylor,
owner of Taylor
Automotive
said of this effort, “We
were so excited to participate in the Pennies to
Dollars for Scholars endeavor. We are honored to
partner with an organization that helps make private
education possible for hard-working members of our community.”
It was definitely a team effort and the students of NOSF will truly benefit from
this fundraiser. Thank You to all the teachers, staff and students for all your hard
work in counting and collecting all those pennies!
NOSF Gets Wowed!
NOSF was invited to partner with the Wow Foundation (Women
NOSF Says Good-Bye
to Board Member
Chris Knight
On May 20, NOSF Board
Member Chris Knight
accepted the position of
secretary for catechetical
formation and education and
superintendent of schools
for the Catholic Diocese of
Cleveland. He has served as
the Superintendent of Toledo
Catholic Schools for six years
and has been on the NOSF
Board since 2010 where he
served on the Governance
Committee.
Mr. Knight has been a good
friend to NOSF serving as
representative of the Diocese
of Toledo’s Catholic School’s
Office. Knight has been a
great ally, working to help
increase awareness of the
organization as well as
taking a leading role in the
expansion of the availability
of the program across 19
counties. NOSF wishes
Mr. Knight the best in his
new role.
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of Waterford) for its presentation of an Evening of Wow – A Night of
Education, Motivation and Inspiration on Monday, May 16 at the Premier.
Over 115 people attended this event which began with appetizers
and networking.
Laura Dosch, the founder of the
Wow Foundation, started the program by
thanking everyone for coming and sharing
some history of the Wow Foundation.
She then introduced Ann Riddle,
Executive Director of the Northwest
Ohio Scholarship, who talked about the
scholarship program and its impact on
the community. From there, Ms. Dosch
introduced her friend Jill Kopanis who
Ann Riddle, NOSF Executive
was there to energize the audience. Ms.
Director, Jill Kopanis, National
Kopanis is a national speaker who inspires
speaker and Laura Dosch, founder
of the Wow Foundation
people to make it happen with her
SHAZAAM program.
NOSF is grateful to Ms. Dosch and the Women of Waterford for including
NOSF in this event. The proceeds of the event benefitted the students of the
Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund.
Your Gift of Stock
Can Benefit NOSF
and You!
D
id you know that by making a
charitable contribution of longterm appreciated securities
such as stocks, bonds, or mutual
funds that have realized significant
appreciation over time can also
benefit you?
If you donate stock directly to
the Northwest Ohio Scholarship
Fund rather than selling the stock
and donating the proceeds, your
contribution can be tax deductible
and taken for the full fair market
value of the securities of up to 30%
of your adjusted gross income.
Since the securities are donated
rather than sold, capital gains taxes
from selling the securities no longer
apply. The more the appreciation
the securities have, the greater your
tax savings. You can learn more by
contacting your financial advisor.
NOSF Welcomes
Megan Salameh
Megan Salameh is NOSF’s new
Communications and Development
Coordinator. She will be working
with Ann Riddle to develop an
improved marketing plan for NOSF
that incorporates social media as
well as assist with NOSF special
events and fundraisers.
Mrs. Salameh will also be
working with the requalification
process and updating scholarship
information.
Mrs. Salameh has been active
in her children’s schools working
with various organizations. She
has two daughters that attend two
Catholic schools in the area. She has
been married for 17 years and is a
Cleveland native. She has grown to
love the northwest Ohio area.
Education for Upward Mobility Presentation
NOSF invited Michael Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and
award winning author, to visit Toledo in March to talk about his new book. Mr. Petrilli
spoke to 50 friends of the Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund in the McMaster Family Center
Auditorium on the evening of Tuesday, March 22.
Petrilli is a research fellow at Stanford University’s
Hoover Institute and executive editor of Education Next.
He has authored other books including The Diverse
Schools Dilemma: A Parent’s Guide to Socioeconomically
Mixed Public Schools and co-editor of Knowledge at the
Core: Don Hirsch, Core Knowledge, and the Future of the
Common Core.
Mr. Petrilli recently edited a new book entitled, Education for Upward
Mobility. The book seeks answers to how we can help children born into
poverty enter the middle class as adults and what role schools can play. Petrilli’s presentation addressed today’s
challenges including low upward mobility, growing inequality in income and a widening achievement gap by class.
He noted that children born into single parent families with a high school diploma or less had increased by 45%
since 1950. He discussed the success sequence which included three norms: Complete high school, Work full-time,
and Wait until age 21 to marry and have children.
After Mr. Petrilli’s presentation, guests were given a copy of his new book and had the opportunity to have him
sign it personally.
Raise the Cap 2016!
T
his year’s Raise the Cap event was an awesome night for baseball
and the Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund. The event brought in
over $36,000 for scholarships in addition to providing a wonderful
evening for families. Thanks to the generosity of a number of sponsors
including this year’s Grand Slam Sponsors Morgan Stanley, Comfort Line
Windows, an anonymous donor and Dr. Gregory Black, the event was a
success. Others supported the event at the Home Run
Sponsorship level and had a chance to attend
the event.
For those sponsors who could not attend the
event, they had an opportunity to send a scholarship
family of four with a Double Sponsorship. Thanks to
the generosity of our sponsors, NOSF was able to host eleven scholarship families at the event.
Among them was the Rutledge family who had the chance to go to the pitcher’s mound along
with Grand Slam sponsor Morgan Stanley and have their daughter Sarah throw the first pitch.
The evening began with an All-American
buffet dinner in the 3rd floor of the Roost
which has been expanded and updated.
Following dinner there was a raffle of
fun prizes including gift certificates to
restaurants and other Mud Hen’s games.
Guests were treated to boxes of Cracker Jack which were
compliments of the Wow Foundation of Waterford Bank. After
the drawing, guests were able to walk right to their reserved
seats and enjoy the game between the Toledo Mud Hens and
the Scranton/Wilkes Barre RailRiders.
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NOSF is Part of the
Kroger Community Rewards Program!
T
he Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund is enrolled in Kroger’s
Community Rewards Program. Through this program,
Kroger will donate a portion of its proceeds to NOSF on
a regular basis; all it takes is using your Kroger Plus Card! Just
follow these steps to help raise money for NOSF while getting a
little grocery shopping done too!
• If you do not already have one, get a Kroger Plus card
from the customer service desk at any Kroger location
and register it online at
krogercommunityrewards.com.
• Either sign in with your existing
account or click “Create an
Account” to get started.
• Once your account is set up, click
on “Edit Kroger Community
Rewards information” and input
your Kroger Plus card number.
•Enter Northwest Ohio
Scholarship Fund in the search
bar and select it from the list,
then click on confirm.
• Go grocery shopping while
supporting NOSF
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