The Bridge Educational Foundation, through the support of Malady & Wooten, Waste Management and Raymond James, last week donated $293,000 of EITC and OSTC scholarships to families in Philadelphia during an event at Father Judge.
Scholarship funds are made possible through the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit programs.
Natalie Nutt, executive director of Bridge, said she was happy that the legislature increased scholarship funding in the recently enacted budget.
Among those in attendance were Waste Management’s Judy Archibald and Mike Flanagan (a 1995 Judge graduate); Dave Eckhart, of Raymond James; Dennis Giorno, of Maladay & Wooten, a Bridge board member and 1990 Judge grad; Bobby Keyes, a Bridge board member and 1981 Judge grad; state Sen. Jimmy Dillon; state Reps. Pat Gallagher and Ed Neilson; and City Councilman Mike Driscoll.
Judge was represented by principal Jim Hozier, major gifts officer Jason Budd and the Rev. Joe Campellone, a former president who offered a prayer.
Budd said what Bridge does is “so exponentially important” for his school’s families.
Campellone received a citation from Driscoll for his 25-plus years of involvement with Judge.
Other schools represented at the event were St. Cecilia, Nazareth Academy High School, Archbishop Ryan, Federation Early Learning Services, St. Anselm, Frankford Friends, Cedar Grove Christian Academy, Community Partnership School, St. Francis de Sales, Greene Street Friends, Girard College, Neumann-Goretti and KenCrest Services. ••
