By donating to Wings Over America Scholarship Foundation,
you provide life-changing opportunities for our children and spouses to become the
doctors, teachers, engineers, lawyers, actors, writers, and leaders of the future.
It only takes a minute to change a lifetime.
Military families don’t know where they’ll be when it’s time for college, so pre-paid tuition plans can be tough. Even with the best planning covering the cost of a college education is difficult. Student debt is the largest non-mortgage debt carried in this country. Scholarships are the answer to many students trying to avoid crippling debt upon graduation.
Most military families are considered “middle class,” neither having the $100,000 on hand to pay cash for tuition nor qualifying for loan free grants or need-based scholarships. For many Navy dependents, the WOASF scholarship allows them to attend a school outside their financial reach, and for some, it is the only way they can attend college.
You can make a difference in the life of a scholar.
Thank You for your interest in supporting the Wings Over America Scholarship Foundation. Your gift joins others like it to fill the gaps, relieve stress, and provide students with a sense of security during this time of global uncertainty.
There are several ways you can make a difference in the lives of these Navy dependents. You can either donate to the Wings Over America Scholarship Foundation online using GiveDirect or you can mail your donation to the Foundation.
Memorials and Honorariums
Celebrate the life of a family member or friend by making a donation in their memory or honor. Donations can be made by simply noting the name on your donation. Once your gift is received, the Foundation will send a note to the honoree or family acknowledging your gift.
Make a memorial or honorarium gift online HERE.
Recurring Donations
Your monthly donation can make a real difference in the life of a scholar and opens doors to opportunities they are otherwise unable to afford. Consider being the key to their bright futures and signing up for recurring donations HERE.
Planned Giving
Whether it be Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCD), Wills, Trusts , Life Insurance, Donor Advised Funds, or Stock Transfers, please consider including WOASF in your financial planning. Learn more HERE.
Download your "Year End Giving Guide" and begin forever influencing students' lives by planning a gift as part of your financial or estate plans, and in some cases, without affecting your current finances.
For more information, call our office: (757) 228-3314.
Highly Appreciated Securities
Make a larger impact by donating long-term appreciated securities, including stock, bonds, and mutual funds, directly to charity. Compared with donating cash, or selling your appreciated securities and contributing the after-tax proceeds, you may potentially increase your gift and tax donation.
When you contribute securities directly to charity, the receiving organization gains the full proceeds from the sale, and you potentially eliminate capital gains exposure. This win-win could mean more money for the causes you care about.
Contact Andrea Diamond for more information at a.diamond@woasf.org or 757-228-3314.
WOASF offers named scholarships to donors who would like to support a scholar with a Full Annual Scholarship.
Each $5000 donation to the scholarship fund in one fiscal year may provides a scholarship named as the donor desires.
Andrew Califano
4-Year Renewable Award Recipient
Renewable scholarships are the best way to make a signifcant difference in the life of a scholar while giving them financial security.
With renewable scholarships, scholars don't have to worry if the funding will be available to them for the coming years thus making it less stressful when planning for tuition. Often this funding allows a scholar the opportunity to go to an institution they might not be able to afford otherwise.
"This scholarship has provided my family with a substantial amount of financial relief from the cost of college."
Each $20,000 donation will receive a four-year renewable scholarship. These Scholarships may be named for the donor in recognition of their support or recognized as an Honorary or Memorial scholarship named as the donor desires.
Please contact our office at your earliest convenience so we may further discuss your renewable scholarship.
Donors who wish to create a legacy celebrating or memorializing a loved one, may establish an Endowed Renewable Scholarship that, for a donation of $125,000, is structured to award a named scholarship for an anticipated minimum of 30 years.
To establish the endowment, a donor will notify WOASF of their intent to fund an endowed scholarship. Once notified, the foundation will establish a standalone account to contain the funds, and it will be named as the donor desires.
Donations to an endowed scholarship can be made in any amount and the scholarship will be considered “fully funded” when the account value reaches $125,000. Donors will have a maximum of five years to reach this goal.
WOASF will not fundraise for any specific endowed scholarship but will
advertise all endowed scholarship funds in the WOASF newsletter and on the WOASF website.
For more information on our Endowed Renewable Scholarship Program contact Andrea Diamond at a.diamond@wingsoveramerica.us or call 757-228-3314.
Current Endowed Renewable Scholarships
Andrea Meinicke Diamond
Executive Director
a.diamond@woasf.org
757-228-3314
Wings Over America
Scholarship Foundation
770 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 155
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
info@woasf.org
Melissa Garrison
Scholarship Administrator
scholarship@woasf.org
757-228-3532
