Suncoast Credit Union Foundation<\/a>\u00a0supports education initiatives and the well-being of children in the counties that the credit union serves. Since its inception in 1990, the foundation has contributed more than $13 million, including more than 550 student scholarships valued at nearly $1 million.<\/p>\n\u201cWe believe the best way we can build stronger communities is by investing in children\u2014specifically in their education, health and emotional well-being,\u201d said Cindy Helton, Executive Director of the Suncoast Credit Union Foundation. \u201cThrough the Suncoast Credit Union Scholars program, we have the opportunity to invest in the enormous potential of students from our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Suncoast Credit Union Foundation announces its partnership with The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools, Inc. to offer five $2,000 scholarship awards to high school seniors in Lee County.\u00a0… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Suncoast Credit Union Foundation announces its partnership with The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools, Inc. to offer five $2,000 scholarship awards to high school seniors in Lee County.\u00a0 Class of 2016 in the communities served by Suncoast Credit Union have the opportunity to apply for financial support to continue their education, thanks to a $100,000 investment in scholarships this year by the Tampa-based credit union\u2019s Foundation.<\/p>\n