Valencia’s Student Opportunity Circle Scholarship — the first scholarship created solely with donations from faculty and staff — awards 5 student scholarships for academic year 2013-2014.
Special thanks to Valencia’s faculty and staff committee ambassadors for their work diligently screening and reviewing scholarship applications from deserving students.
This scholarship is the direct result of Valencia’s annual Faculty and Staff Giving Campaign, designed by a team of Valencia faculty and staff.

Valencia Faculty and Staff campaign ambassadors offer their support of First One. Valencia Foundation established the First One campaign to help first generation students, those that are first in their families to attend college, with scholarship support.
At the quarterly meeting on July 19th, the faculty and staff committee ambassadors also committed their individual time and resources in support of Valencia’s First One campaign.
Valencia Foundation launched First One as a fund-raising effort to help first-generation, low-income students pursue a college education.
The First One campaign provides the opportunity to give another first by helping a student go to college. For more information on First One please visit: http://www.VALENCIA.org/FirstONE
For more information on Valencia’s faculty and staff committee please visit: http://www.valencia.org/fsg/committee.cfm
The First One campaign takes advantage of Florida’s First Generation Matching Grant Program that maximizes state dollars for students through a dollar-for-dollar match of private contributions. During the 2011-12 school year, more than 29,000 Valencia students were the first in their families to go to college.
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Valencia team leaders share their firsts: https://valenciafoundation.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/first-one-college-team-leaders-share-their-stories/
Have you seen Valencia employees on campus sporting their Valencia Foundation flair?
This lapel pin is given in appreciation to those faculty and staff members who are “Giving Opportunity” to Valencia students through payroll contributions to the Valencia Foundation
Employees who contribute by payroll deduction can select which scholarship they would like to support. These scholarships may reflect discipline, organization affiliation, or in memory of a colleague.
Others Valencia employees support Valencia’s Student Opportunity Scholarship, the first scholarship created and funded solely by faculty and staff for the students they serve.
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