Post Secondary Impact

Each year, we invite former preschoolers who were in one of our Stepping Stone-funded LEAF programs for six months or more to apply for the Billie Gannaway Memorial Scholarship.  Over the years, two additional scholarship offerings have been added; Ivey Stepping Higher and the William O. Smith awards.

• $44,300 is the total of all 2021 scholarship awards
• 37 is the total number of unique student/awards this past round
• 28% of 2021 BGMS applicants also applied for the William O Smith (WOS) scholarship and the Scholarship Team awarded two $5,000 WOS awards (included in the total above)
• 6 Ivey Stepping Higher scholarships of $1,000 each were awarded (included in the total above)
• 64% of submitted applications were done online on the website (new for 2021 round)
• 44% of applications were new students who had never applied for our scholarships before and 56% were from students who had applied previously
• In 2021, the colleges which students plan to or are already attending:
  • ASU-11
  • Benedictine-Mesa-1
  • Estrella Mt. Community College-1
  • Grand Canyon University (GCU)-6
  • Glendale Community College (GCC)-6
  • Missouri Baptist-1
  • NAU-2
  • Phoenix Community College-6
  • University of Arizona (UA) 2
  • University of New Mexico-1
• Majors or Career interests:
  • Auto mechanics-1
  • Construction-1

For a complete list of the scholarship award winners’ names, click here.