Three prominent county businesses established scholarships that will help more Montgomery County’s at-promise high school students achieve higher education, thereby ultimately strengthening the local economy.
The charitable arms of Clark Enterprises, Inc., Westat, and PEPCO together have pledged $800,000 to the Montgomery College Foundation. The gifts, which will be made over a period of several years, will pay for tuition and books either for ACES students or for students who enter the College’s engineering programs.
“I have been the beneficiary of the transformative power of education,” Montgomery College President Dr. DeRionne P. Pollard said. “And so, I know that these generous gifts will absolutely change lives, no question.”
The Clark Charitable Foundation Inc. is a private organization funded by the A. James Clark Family and managed by its President, Courtney Clark Pastrick. The Foundation’s mission is to provide a better quality of life for people living primarily in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region. The Foundation places particular emphasis on organizations or programs that benefit the disadvantaged and those involving medical research, health care, and education.
Founded in 1963, Westat is an employee-owned research corporation based in Rockville, MD, with expertise in data collection and management, clinical trials, statistical research & survey methods, evaluation, and communications and social marketing.
Pepco Holdings Inc. is one of the largest energy delivery companies in the Mid-Atlantic region, serving about two million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New Jersey.