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Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund drive campaign ends Monday

More than $113,000 in pledges and donations has been raised in the sixth Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund campaign. The campaign is scheduled to end on Monday.

The figure includes pledges and donations from Laboratory workers as well as the more than $7,200 raised from the foundation's May 31 bowlathon in Española, said Cindy Atencio of the foundation.

The Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund allows University of California Laboratory employees and subcontract personnel to donate to a fund that awards college scholarships to Northern New Mexico area students. Lab workers can return completed forms to the nonprofit Laboratory Foundation offices in Santa Fe. Remittance envelopes were included with pledge forms, which were mailed to Laboratory workers at their mail stops and to retirees at their homes.

The goal of this year's fundraising campaign is $200,000.

Through payroll deduction, employees may donate between $1 and $10 or more each paycheck, and contributions to the scholarship fund are tax deductible. The $1-to-$10-per-pay-period range of suggested donations was developed to make it easier for all Lab workers to participate.

Employees also can make a one-time donation. Personal checks can be written to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.

Laboratory personnel who pledge or make a donation to the scholarship fund will receive a Laboratory badge holder and lanyard, said Debbi Wersonick of the Community Relations (CRO) Office, coordinator of employee and corporate giving programs.

Since the program's inception, University of California Laboratory employees and subcontract personnel have contributed more than $585,000 in donations or pledges to the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund giving campaign. And 206 high school seniors or college undergraduates have received scholarships through the fund.

The scholarship fund is managed by the Laboratory and the not-for-profit Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.

The Laboratory Foundation is a philanthropic grant-giving entity for the Lab created in 1997. It supports a range of regional and community not-for-profit organizations.

For more information on the scholarship fund, write to Tony Fox of the Laboratory Foundation at tfox@lanlfoundation.org by electronic mail.

-- Steve Sandoval

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