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Thanks to the generous support of M & T bank, HOME is able this year to raise the first prize award for the Joanne Champion Granger scholarship to $2,000. A second prize of $1,000 and a third prize of $500 will also be awarded. On hearing the news, Art Butler, Chair of the Joanne Champion Granger Scholarship Committee, said, “Hallelujia! Thanks to the generosity of M & T Bank, the scholarship is more attractive and we will be even better able to live up to the aspirations of Joanne Champion Granger and the goals of HOME.”
Joanne Champion Granger was a high school science teacher and community activist in whose honor this scholarship was established. Her personal experience with housing discrimination did not defeat her, but increased her determination to work for equal rights in housing for herself and others.
The award, created in 1995 at the behest of Joanne Champion Granger’s husband, Dr. Carl Granger, is granted to a college bound high school senior who demonstrates a commitment to the ideals by which she lived: academic excellence, pride of work, and commitment to human rights.
The scholarship is awarded to a college bound high school senior in Erie or Niagara County who has maintained a “B” average (verified by an official transcript). Applicants must be nominated by school personnel or a community leader familiar with the student’s activities. The winners will be determined on the basis of an original essay (maximum three pages) which demonstrates the student’s community involvement and commitment to human rights and /or equal opportunity in housing. Applications must be received by February 10, 2006.
The awards will be presented to the winners at HOME’s 43rd Annual Meeting and Dinner on April 11, 2006.
As in past years, the scholarship committee is offering to send a speaker to interested schools and organizations to discuss the scholarship and the important work that it honors: the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Joanne Champion Granger, and the work that the students themselves are doing to further the cause of civil rights and fair housing.
For more information or to request a speaker, please call 854-1400. Further information and applications are available online at www.homeny.org.
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