The Pasco-Hernando State College Foundation recently received a $40,000 grant from the Edward K. Roberts Community College Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. Beginning over the summer term and continuing throughout the upcoming academic year, the Edward K. Roberts Community College Fund will provide scholarship support to PHSC students.
Preference will be given to part-time students who may not qualify for other financial aid, as well as students who are parents. Since 2011, this fund has provided over $670,000 to assist PHSC students through scholarships.
Raised by a single mother, Roberts experienced firsthand the effort and perseverance needed in order to achieve his goals despite the barriers he faced. Roberts’s success afforded him the ability to become a generous lifelong donor to PHSC. He relocated to Sarasota and, upon his death in 2009, established the Edward K. Roberts Community College Fund of the Community Foundation.
Pasco-Hernando State College, a comprehensive, learning-centered institution, serves its community by providing excellent, affordable and accessible education, enabling students to achieve academic success, personal enrichment, socio-economic advancement and social impact.
About the Community Foundation of Sarasota County: The Community Foundation of Sarasota County is a public charity founded in 1979 by the Southwest Florida Estate Planning Council as a resource for caring individuals and the causes they support, enabling them to make a charitable impact on the community. With assets of $544 million in more than 1,590 charitable funds, the Community Foundation awarded grants and scholarships totaling $56 million dollars last year in the areas of education, the arts, health and human services, civic engagement, animal welfare and the environment. Since its founding, the Community Foundation has been able to grant more than $500 million to area nonprofit organizations in our community thanks to the generosity of charitable individuals, families, and businesses. For more information, visit www.CFSarasota.org or call (941) 955-3000.