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Arkansas Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund welcomes 4 new board members

Little Rock, Ark. (Feb. 21, 2023) — Arkansas Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund is happy to announce the addition of 4 new members to its board of administrators.

This brings the whole variety of board members to fifteen to steer the nonprofit, which supplies monetary help and private assist to single mum or dad college students throughout the state.


Sharmane Andrews of Little Rock will serve on the Governance Committee. She has over 20 years of expertise in banking and actual property and is presently the Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Simmons Financial institution. Sharmane additionally serves as a Commissioner on the Arkansas Truthful Housing Fee and as a member of the CFPB Client Advisory Board.


Daniel Brewer of Heber Springs will serve on the Finance Committee. He and his spouse are the Homeowners/Operators of the 10-room mattress and breakfast Abbe Home Inn in Heber Springs. Daniel can be a board member of The Malawi Challenge, a minister at Shirley Church of Christ, and an emergency administration specialist at Protection Finance Accounting & Companies.

 
Mark Steenhoek of Little Rock will serve on the Finance Committee. He’s an Working Accomplice at Stephens Group. On this position, he makes use of his 15-plus years of enterprise expertise to information progress and construct long-term worth in non-public fairness.

 
Eddie L. Thomas of Little Rock will serve on the Pupil Companies Committee. He serves as Assistant Director on the Arkansas Division of Workforce Companies.  Eddie has nearly 20 years of expertise main youth and workforce improvement packages. His huge neighborhood involvement contains serving on the Southeast Arkansas School Board of Trustees and the Bradley County Single Dad or mum Scholarship Committee.

“Our board is enormously strengthened by the addition of latest members wanting to assist our mission of serving to single mother and father,” ASPSF Board President Betsy Baker of Little Rock stated. “Their numerous enterprise and nonprofit backgrounds will permit our board to raised perceive points dealing with college students and supply assets to deal with these points. We admire their management and repair to those underserved Arkansans.”

Two board members have been elected to officer positions for 2023: Ryan Morrow of The Stephens Group in Little Rock as Treasurer, and Mike Weaver of Southern Financial institution in Jonesboro as Secretary.  President Betsy Baker of Little Rock and President-elect Sunshine Bartlett of Fort Smith proceed of their roles for a second yr. 

For extra details about ASPSF — which has awarded greater than $35 million in scholarships throughout the state to single mother and father since 1990 — contact Communications Director Jen Para at 479-318-2885 or jpara@aspsf.org.

About Arkansas Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund:  Arkansas Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund has labored for greater than 30 years to create stronger, extra educated, and extra self-sufficient households. By way of scholarships and companies, ASPSF opens doorways for low-income single mother and father, serving to them pursue schooling, safe employment, and rework the longer term for his or her households. With the assistance of volunteers and neighborhood assist, ASPSF creates multigenerational change, reworking lives for each single mother and father and their kids. For details about scholarships, volunteer alternatives, and methods to offer, go to www.aspsf.org.

 

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