The Julia Greeley Home is honored to be selected by the Ward Family Foundation of Alexandria Va., to be part of its education scholarship program. This means that a qualified resident of Julia’s may receive a one-year scholarship to begin or continue her education at college or university in Colorado. If the recipient does well in school the scholarship may continue for a second year at the discretion of the foundation.
This generous award program from the Ward Family Foundation is in harmony with Julia’s mission to help motivated women recover from homelessness and go on to build new lives of purpose and self sufficiency. The scholarship is designed to help recipients pursue a practical degree path that leads to a good job and career.
As of mid 2019, two Julia Greeley Home residents have been awarded foundation scholarships. Each of the women (who have each moved on from our program to build self sufficient lives) have built on this great educational opportunity. Our first recipient earned a degree, and the second is attending her second year of school in fall 2019. Both women can point to a straight-A record at their colleges.
A third Julia Greeley Home resident is currently in the application process. The scholarships are awarded solely at the discretion of the foundation.
The mission of the Ward Family Foundation is innovative. It was founded to help charities establish themselves using a “best practices” approach, which means being able to measure one’s effectiveness with concrete benchmarks and proven methods which show results. The foundation was established by businessman John L. Ward, who wanted to extend his proven, verifiable and measurable business practices to nonprofit organizations, to bring them to their highest level of performance.
The high standards of the Ward Family Foundation make us at the Julia Greeley Home all the more proud to be invited into their scholarship program. There is no better predictor of future success and a life of self sufficiency than to earn a good education.
