Dear Friends,
The Coronavirus pandemic has certainly interrupted our daily lives. We hope you are all doing everything you can to keep yourself, your loved ones and your neighbors as safe and healthy as possible. To do its part in that effort, and after much careful consideration, the Board of The Amanda Rose Laura Foundation has decided to cancel this year’s Promise Fulfilled Cocktail Reception that was scheduled for May 1st at the J.W. Marriott Essex House in New York.
We regret we won’t be getting to introduce you to some of the worthy and impressive recipients of our recent grants and scholarships who would have been speaking to you at this year’s Reception. So far this year, the Foundation has funded a new program in the Philadelphia area called Restorative Practices in Action, whose mission is to prepare a community of inner-city teachers to better educate minority youth. The Foundation has endowed three new Amanda Rose Laura Scholars at NJ LEEP, and awarded two other students a stipend for college visits. We have also endowed a Model UN Scholarship to two needy students at Mount St. Mary Academy, and outfitted new Student Ambassadors at Chicago Math & Science Academy. Please see our 2019 newsletter to see all of the other things we have accomplished in the past year.
The Foundation is grateful for your generosity, and we have no doubt this year’s Cocktail Reception would have been as grand a success as last year’s. Rest assured that the Foundation will not be deterred from continuing its mission to fund extra- and co-curricular programs that provide students in underserved areas with resources they otherwise would go without. Your continued support despite the cancellation of the event would be ever more meaningful. Please consider making a donation now.
Additionally, our 2nd Annual Amanda Golf Classic will take place on September 28th at Essex Fells Country Club and we will be sending you more information about that outing in the near future.
With your help, we will keep Amanda’s dream alive of helping enhance educational opportunities for those in need, one child at a time.
With our deepest gratitude,
Rosemary Laura