No matter how you look at it, Northland Pioneer College (NPC) students won big on Tuesday, April 2, Arizona Gives Day 2024. Northland Pioneer College Friends and Family (NPCFF), the nonprofit foundation that supports the students of NPC, received a record-breaking $49,175 from 96 unique donors during the 24-hour, online giving event. The total donations smashed the previous record by over $5,300 and netted the foundation its strongest finish ever in nine years of competition.
“We won first place in the category of Most Dollars Raised by a Mid-Sized Non-Profit category,” says Betsyann Wilson, executive director of NPC Friends and Family. The win carries a bonus prize of $3,500. “Every dollar raised goes to scholarships for the students of Northland Pioneer College,” Wilson notes. Unofficial totals show that almost $3,800,000 was raised for nonprofits statewide. “I am thrilled to share that among the 888 participating nonprofits of all sizes across Arizona, NPC Friends and Family finished 8th overall,” continues Wilson. NPCFF is considered a mid-sized nonprofit, based on annual revenues.
“We especially want to thank our champion, Chris Corbin of The House in Show Low,” Wilson says. “He makes a huge donation of $6,000 to us each Arizona Gives Day. This gift funds three scholarships of $2,000 each for graduating seniors from Show Low, Snowflake, and Blue Ridge High Schools. Chris’s ‘NPC On The House,’ scholarships are only one of one of the many ways he gives back to our communities. Chris and The House are what community is all about!”
“Donors can select the scholarship they wish to support,” Wilson explains. If no designation is selected, the funds go to the NPCFF Eagle Fund, which provides about forty $1,000 scholarships each year to NPC students who are academically talented, but financially challenged. The Eagle Fund also supports testing scholarships for students seeking a high school equivalency diploma, such as the High School Equivalency (HSE) or GED®, as well as the NPCFF Emergency Fund, for students who encounter challenges that would threaten their ability to complete a semester. “The Eagle Fund is our mainstay,” Wilson says, “but I love that almost 40% of the total donations this year were designated for our named and memorial scholarships, assuring that these scholarships endure as lasting legacies to those we love. I appreciate Arizona Gives Day, as much for being a love story, told through gifts of memory and honor, as for helping our NPC students achieve their goals and dreams.”
All donations to NPC Friends & Family, a 501 (c) (3) organization, are tax deductible. NPC Friends & Family is organized exclusively to support the mission and goals of Northland Pioneer College through advancement of college programs and services, establishment and growth of student scholarships, and positive promotion of NPC. For more information about fundraising events or creating or donating to a scholarship, please contact Betsyann Wilson at (928) 536-6245, betsy.wilson@npc.edu, or consider making a gift today by visiting www.npc.edu/npcfriendsfamily.
