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Palmer Scholars Raises Funds for Emergency Fund | Giving Tuesday 2020



Each year, our Scholars list finances as the number one barrier to achieving their dream of higher education. COVID-19 has only exacerbated the financial stresses our Scholars and their families face. Since March, 70 Scholars have contacted Palmer Scholars at least once for assistance with emergency financial needs, including rent, food, PPE, and technology. In this time, our Scholars need all the support they can get to not only persist through higher education but to simply survive.


We believe postsecondary success requires support in and out of the classroom. We are proud to have provided over $6,000 in emergency aid to our Scholars in their families since March. Without the support of community organizations like Palmer Scholars, our Scholars may have needed to endure high-risk work conditions or pursue high-interest loans just to have food to eat and a roof over their heads.


This #GivingTuesday, join us in supporting our Emergency Fund. Your generous donation will ensure our Scholars know they have a community invested in their success. When you're part of the Palmer Scholars family, you are #NeverALoan. We are making it a goal to raise $5,000 for our Scholars. Can you help us? Contribute to Palmer Scholar’s Emergency Fund today by clicking here.

 
 
 

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Palmer Scholars acknowledges that our work is carried out on, and our office space is located within, occupied Coast Salish land, specifically that of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. We pay respect to Coast Salish Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants and to all Indigenous peoples. To acknowledge this land is to recognize its longer history and our place in that history; it is to recognize these lands and waters and their significance for the peoples who lived and continue to live in this region, whose practices and spiritualties were and are tied to the land and the water, and whose lives continue to enrich and develop in relationship to the land, waters, and other inhabitants today.

 

We also pause to recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our country, state, and institutions are built.

We remember that our country is built on the labor of enslaved people who were kidnapped and brought to the U.S. from the African continent and recognize the continued contribution of their survivors. We also acknowledge all immigrant labor, including voluntary, involuntary, trafficked, forced, and undocumented peoples who contributed to the building of the country and continue to serve within our labor force. We acknowledge all unpaid care-giving labor.

 

To the people who contributed this immeasurable work and their descendants, we acknowledge our/their indelible mark on the spaces in which we operate today. It is our collective responsibility to critically interrogate these histories, to repair harm, and to honor, protect, and sustain this land.

Physical Address - 

4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW BLDG 16

Lakewood WA 98499-4004

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Phone -

Tricia Speid (CEO) (253) 617-5676

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Mailing Address - 

PO Box 7119, Tacoma, WA 98417

Email - info@palmerscholars.org

To contact someone directly visit our staff page here: Our Team

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