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Apr 21, 2020
1 min

Announcing the Willie Stewart Scholarship Recipient

The Willie Stewart Award was created to honor the decades of work and service of Willie Stewart. A retired educator and leader in our com...

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Apr 17, 2020
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Announcing the Alfred & Mary Davis Community Scholarship

At the beginning of the year, we sat down with the very first Palmer Scholar. Before Palmer Scholars was a formal organization, Merle Pal...

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Apr 17, 2020
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Palmer Scholar Khyree Named Forbes Under 30 Scholar

In October 2019, Scholar Khyree flew to Detroit for the Forbes Under 30 Scholars Summit. Khyree was selected as an Under 30 Scholar from ...

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Apr 15, 2020
1 min

Giving During a Global Pandemic

After Gov. Inslee first announced school closures, Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier used his short time on screen to make an import...

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Apr 14, 2020
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Palmer Cares Supports Continuing College Scholars

Two years ago, we started our Palmer Cares program. Palmer Cares is a two-pronged program aimed to better serve our Scholars once they he...

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Apr 13, 2020
2 min

Palmer Pathways Perseveres

As COVID-19 has changed business as usual, operations at Palmer Scholars is no different. Our Palmer Pathways program has had to be espec...

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Apr 7, 2020
2 min

Six Scholars Your Gift Will Support

One of our favorite parts of our annual Stand Up & Cheer luncheon is the opportunity to connect our guests with our Scholars. We seat one...

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Mar 30, 2020
1 min

Announcing Stay In & Cheer!

Hello friends, As you all well know, the Human Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has created a very challenging situation for our community and t...

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Mar 10, 2020
4 min

South Sound Business: Palmer Pathways Initiative Aims to Re-engage Pierce County Youth

This article was originally posted by South Sound Business. You can read the article in the March 2020 issue or online here. The trades i...

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Feb 21, 2020
2 min

Palmer Scholars partner for alumni success

For years, we have been rooted in our commitment to guiding our Scholars not just into a postsecondary program but through to graduation....

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Feb 14, 2020
1 min

Palmer Scholars Engage with the 2020 Census

At Palmer Scholars, our vision is for our Scholars to succeed in graduating from college with the essential tools to be catalysts for cha...

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Feb 7, 2020
2 min

White Collar and Blue Collar and New Collar, oh my!

As a community organization, we constantly seek feedback from our Scholars, their families, and the greater community who has served us f...

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Oct 3, 2019
2 min

Mentor Match 2019

Last night, we held our annual Mentor Match, during which our high school Scholars meet their mentor for the very first time. We see ment...

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Sep 5, 2019
2 min

Announcing Palmer Pathways

We are excited to announce we are piloting a new program this year! Palmer Pathways, designed in partnership with Workforce Central, brin...

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Aug 29, 2019
2 min

Palmer Care Packages

In a speech he delivered at our graduation celebration in 2018, Mt. Tahoma graduate Jesse recounted his first day moving into the dorms o...

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Aug 15, 2019
1 min

Summer BBQ 2019

This will be a post about the Summer BBQ Many things have changed since Palmer Scholars first started supporting Pierce County youth in 1...

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Jun 27, 2019
2 min

Celebrating our Largest Graduating Class Ever!

When Merle Palmer and Rev. Al Davis began mentoring and financially supporting those two young men they handpicked from their Sunday Scho...

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