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Montclair Scholarship Fund Inc

Awarding scholarships to college-bound MHS seniors with financial need for more than 60 years.

Montclair, NJ   |  https://www.montclairscholarshipfund.org/

Mission

Awarding scholarships to college-bound MHS seniors with financial need for more than 60 years. The Montclair Scholarship Fund has no staff but is instead run by an all-volunteer Board of Trustees who serve without compensation. The Montclair Scholarship Fund uses donations from individuals, memorial funds, businesses and organizations to provide college scholarships to deserving students with financial need. All donations are used solely for student scholarships. Incidental expenses of running the organization are covered by a separate fund.

Ruling year info

2016

Co-President

Leeta Jordan

Co-President

Mimi Wrede

Main address

100 Chestnut St

Montclair, NJ 07042 USA

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EIN

22-6047818

NTEE code info

Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Awards (B82)

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Our programs

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Scholarships

Awarding scholarships to MHS seniors with financial need

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Our results

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Number of academic scholarships awarded

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Totals By Year
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Scholarships

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Other - describing something else

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Total dollar amount of scholarship awarded

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Totals By Year
Related Program

Scholarships

Type of Metric

Other - describing something else

Direction of Success

Increasing

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Goals & Strategy

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Charting impact

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Our Goal is to get the Montclair community more engaged with MSF as well as making sure that our funds are more easily distributed to our recipients. Last year we distributed $361,000 to the class of 2022 and we hope to increase this to $450,000 for the class of 2023

Previously we required students to fill out a form and bring the form to the bursar. The bursar would then sign the form and send it back to our office. Once we received the form from the bursar we would send the check to the college or university with the name of the student on it. Due to covid this system was not working well. This fall we changed our process by contacting all scholarship recipients, obtaining their student ID numbers as well as the mailing address of the bursar. We now send the bursar the check withe student's name and ID number with a statement that if there is an off-set or if the student is not enrolled the check must be returned to us. This has been VERY successful!

We are engaging the Montclair community by attending and participating in community events. We just entered the town Scarecrow contest. In addition, we plan to speak to PTA council to have each elementary school sponsor a scholarship. Finally we are planning small cultivation events to increase our donor base.

How we listen

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Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Montclair Scholarship Fund Inc

Board of directors
as of 01/23/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Leeta Jordan


Board co-chair

Mimi Wrede

Enid Melville

Carita Zimmerman

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 11/2/2021
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Leadership

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Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

The organization's co-leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
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Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

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