10 New $5,000 Scholarships Offered to 2025 Graduates

New Donor-Partners Focus on Civics Education, 2-Sport Athletes, Special Needs & “Dreaming Big”

Each of the 10 new scholarships will be awarded for $5,000 – just above the $4,914 average of all 106 scholarships offered this year. Six are offered as a result of the Foundation’s successful public Strive campaign to raise funds to award first-time Strive 5 Community Scholarships at each of the six Northshore district high schools.

A most generous – but anonymous – scholarship supporters, challenged the community to make public donations that they would match dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000. Strive 5 received 96 donations totaling $50,823 from June through December. The amount was doubled in January with their check for the match.

A Strive 5 grant will be awarded to an applicant graduating from one of the six eligible schools.

The four new scholarships, and their funding sponsors, are listed below:

Carter Civics Education
Dr. Tom Carter, former Northshore educator and active in the Northshore Education Association, Donor Partner.

Dream Big
Sponsored and funded by the team of Sandy Kallilo, Crissy House and Jen Mills through the Matching program at Microsoft. Support graduating seniors at all Northshore high schools to achieve their goal of attaining higher education.

Carl James Dunlap ’16 Memorial
James and Tracey Dunlap, Donor Partners. One time award to a student with disabilities who otherwise would be unable to have a full college experience due to added costs related to their disability.

Steve Segadelli Student Athlete Memorial
Gina Segadelli, family and friends sponsor and fund. Purpose is to assist a multi-sport student athlete with college financial aid and to support multi-sporting in high school.

Events of Note
March 1 – Woodinville Chamber of Commerce annual fundraising auction.

March 7 – Deadline for 2025 graduating seniors to complete online applications

March 31 – Students eligible for renewal to provide online scholarship re-application

May 9 – Woodinville Rotary Club annual charity auction.

May 20 – 41st annual Scholarship Awards Breakfast at Evergreen Church in Bothell

Who and How We Work
One way or another, it takes a large amount of volunteers to organize and manage the process of awarding scholarships, particularly as the number of scholarships, donors and recipients continue to grow.

The Foundation and I are indebted to B-Z Davis, Cathy Swanson, Nathaniel Gibbs and Laurie Broulette who have taken on the vital roles required to coordinate and manage the communications, online applications, social media and the processing of re-applications for recipients who are eligible for renewals.

We also welcome a host of volunteers including Holly Call, Ken Ohnemus, Sandy Kallio and Carol Lee to stage the annual scholarship awards breakfast. We are fortunate to have Margaret Rudin and Jennifer Ratliff helping with outreach duties along with Chairman Doug Moore.

In addition, I welcome Jaskaran Singh, a CPA from the firm of Visse-CPAs, who has signed on to organize and manage the complicated process of financial accounting and record-keeping chores.

More details at sf-ns.org/how-it-works.