GRASP March Newsletter

GRASP in the News

GRASP Featured on 12 On Your Side (3/06/2024)
Featuring GRASP’s Director of Outreach and Public Affairs, Paula Buckley:

GRASP Featured on NBC 12’s “Call12” (1/11/2023)
Featuring GRASP Advisors Joyce King, Marianne Aronson, Phenie Golatt, and Barbara Hassett:

Williamsburg Community Foundation awards grant to GRASP for services in Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools. (March 1, 2022)

Williamsburg Community Foundation grant award ceremony, March 1, 2022. — GRASP is grateful to have received an award from the Williamsburg Community Foundation. The award will assist the Williamsburg-James City County region by supporting GRASP financial aid advising services for students at the area high schools (Jamestown, Lafayette, and Warhill). We are thankful to have the Williamsburg Community Foundation as a community partner and appreciate their efforts to ensure career and college access for all.

Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation awards grant to GRASP for services at Amherst County High School.
(January 21, 2022)

Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation presents GRASP with check for $5,000. — Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation President & CEO William J. Bodine presents a check to GRASP Advisor Mary Kay McCrea.
Many thanks to the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation for the grant to support GRASP financial aid advising at Amherst County High School! We appreciate their wonderful support for students and our mission to ensure career and college access for all!

“GRASP College Scholarships Help Students in Virginia” (WRIC, August 19, 2020):

GRASP Spotlighted in “Today in Henrico” Interview Segment (Henrico Citizen, July 24, 2020)

GRASP Advisors Featured on NBC12’s “Call 12” (Oct. 23, 2019):

GRASP Advisor Renee Vandevander interviewed on Allegheny Mountain Radio (July 13, 2019).

Interview with GRASP Chairman Kenneth Dye (Richmond Free Press, Feb. 15, 2019)

“Getting to the Finish Line: GRASP Shepherds Students Through Complicated Financials of College” (Grid, Sept. 21, 2018)

“GRASP Provides Spanish Speaking Advisor for Financial Aid Assistance/Questions” (Northern Neck Connection, Nov. 5, 2017)

GRASP (GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc.), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable, college-access organization that assists students and families in obtaining funding for post-secondary education, now has a Spanish speaking advisor available to assist students/families with the financial aid process. The advisor, Conchy Martinez, is bilingual and is available to assist with outreach to the Latino community. She staffs an email in Spanish so that parents who speak little or no English can send her financial aid questions in Spanish and receive an answer in Spanish. Her email is espanol@grasp4va.org.
Additional financial aid information is available at the GRASP website, www.grasp4va.org.

“The Landscape of Postsecondary Access Resources in Virginia” (July 2017)

To meet the growing demand for workers with some form of postsecondary education, a SCHEV-commissioned study identifies areas of the Commonwealth with the greatest needs to improve postsecondary enrollment rates from high school and offers recommendations for state, regional and local policy makers.

GRASP Advisor Percy Pollard received an award of recognition from King and Queen County School Board (Rappahannock Times, Dec. 2016)

An editorial about GRASP's services from Fredericksburg's The Free Lance-Star (Dec. 15, 2016)

Congratulations to GRASP Board Member the Honorable Levar Stoney, one of Style Weekly's "Top 40 Under 40" (Oct. 20, 2015)

GRASP honored by the Valentine as a 2015 Richmond History marker for Creating Quality Education Opportunities: