Friendship Memorial Scholarship Fund
By Phil Pratt, Chairman

Thank you FSS members for your ongoing generous support! In 2021 five seniors from Friendship, ME were awarded $3500 each, and five Continuing Education students each received $1800.

We are pleased to report that the finances are in place to award more record-breaking dollars in 2022, of $4000 per graduating Senior, and $2000 per Continuing Education student!

In 2021, the Fund Trustees launched the very :Creative Ways to Gift" Program to accept non-cash gifts. Here’s how it works:

There are 8 basic ways that you may give gifts to the Scholarship Fund:

1) Cash
2) Stock
3) Real Estate and Business Interests
4) Other Personal Property
5) Life Insurance
6) IRAs and Other Retirement Funds
7) Assets of a Private Foundation, and
8) Bequests.

There are many advantages to using each of these creative gift-giving options to support the Fund.

If you would like more information on the non-cash options, please contact Jennifer Richard at the Maine Community Foundation for a confidential discussion about your giving ideas at (207) 412-0833, or e-mail her at jrichard@mainecf.org. You may also use the Foundation’s toll free number at (877) 700-6800 X 833. Please reference the Fund (FREN) to Jennifer in your communication. The dollars generated will be made available to the Fund Trustees "For Distribution" in support of scholarship awards.

For more information about the Fund, gifts, qualifications to receive a scholarship, and future plans etc., contact Phil Pratt at (207) 832-4335, davisloop100@gmail.com or P.O. Box 129, Friendship, ME 04547.