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Arkansas Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund is grateful for volunteers like Helen Bumpas, the November 2024 Volunteer of the Month.
Her story of supporting single guardian college students started over a decade in the past when Karen Garcia — who was serving on the board of the Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund of Garland County — invited Helen to the 2013 Type Present, a fundraiser showcasing the group’s sturdy help for single guardian college students.
At this occasion, Helen discovered how the group served single dad and mom in her group, and she or he simply needed to do extra! Right this moment, she’s a member of the Type Present committee and is at the moment planning the fifteenth annual Type Present fundraiser for Spring 2025.
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Helen Bumpas (proper) volunteered on the 2023 ASPSF Ouachita Area commencement celebration held at First Presbyterian Church of Sizzling Springs.
Nevertheless, that’s not all she does for ASPSF. Helen has helped plan award ceremonies and has served because the co-chair, secretary, and parliamentarian of the SPSF Garland County board.
She’s organized native fundraising alternatives such because the Group Rewards program with Kroger, and she or he registered ASPSF to obtain funds from the Arkansas Group Basis’s Arkansas Offers program. Helen additionally immediately supported ASPSF recipients by aiding with utility interviews and mentoring college students all through their instructional journey.
When requested in what methods she has volunteered for ASPSF, Helen laughed and mentioned she’s accomplished “a little bit of all of it.” She added that her favourite a part of being a volunteer with ASPSF is when she runs into the scholars in her group.
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Volunteers Helen Bumpas (left) and Mari Simmons assist test in visitors on the Single Dad or mum Type Present fundraiser in Sizzling Springs.
“It’s actually cool to see them doing nicely for themselves,” Helen mentioned. She’s talked to former scholarship recipients who’ve graduated, gotten married, or began careers they love that help their households. When requested why she determined to volunteer with ASPSF, Helen mentioned “It’s a worthwhile program, and I imagine within the mission.”
Along with volunteering for ASPSF, Helen has given her time to the Sizzling Springs Documentary Movie Competition since 2004 and is a member of the Virginia Clinton Kelly Democratic Ladies’s Membership. She can be a member of the First Presbyterian Ladies of First Presbyterian Church in Sizzling Springs, which is a long-time supporter of ASPSF.
In truth, The First Presbyterian Ladies of Sizzling Springs received ASPSF’s 2023 Excellent Group Award, recognizing the group’s distinctive help for single guardian college students. Helen helped settle for the award on behalf of the Presbyterian Ladies, a number of of whom are ASPSF volunteers.
Thanks, Helen, in your unimaginable 11 years of serving to single guardian college students break the cycle of poverty via greater training.
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Helen Bumpas (third from proper) together with different members of the First Presbyterian Ladies of Sizzling Springs settle for the 2023 Excellent Group Award at The Lunch Break, ASPSF’s statewide fundraiser in Little Rock.
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