Take Stock in Children
Media Release
Contact: Dr. Andrea Cummings
Executive Director
Dr.Dee Torre Kaufman
Development Chair
March 10, 2018 9:00 a.m.
Tickets for the “Light Up a Life” gala are available for $150 per person and can be purchased by visiting the TSIC website at www.takestocknassau.org.
The Nassau County Board of County Commissioners and the City of Fernandina Beach have proclaimed March 2018 as “Take Stock in Children Month” in recognition of the organization’s 21 years of providing scholarships, mentors and hope to more than 550 academically promising low-income Nassau County students.
The program is supported by Take Stock in Children’s local fundraising efforts. Its annual event, the “Light Up a Life Gala”, will be held on Thursday, March 22, at the Ritz Carlton-Amelia Island, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. The event will feature wine and dinner, along with a cash bar and silent auction, which will showcase items from over 120 contributors. Live music that evening will be provided by the Queen of Hearts, https://www.queenofhearts.info/ a group who performs frequently at the Bluebird Café in Nashville as well as at diverse venues in locations such as New York, New Jersey, Missouri and Atlanta.
Please join our growing list of sponsors for this event: the Jacksonville Jaguars, Arlington Toyota, CBC Bank, Rayonier Inc., RPM Lumber, Synovus Bank and Pineland Bank by calling the TSIC office at 904-548-4464.
Tickets for the “Light Up a Life” gala are available for $150 per person and can be purchased by visiting the TSIC website at www.takestocknassau.org.
Take Stock in Children is a non-profit student mentoring and scholarship program that assists academically qualified low-income students to reach their greatest potential through higher education. Take Stock helps students stay in school, strive for better grades and, ultimately, succeed in college. Upon completion of the program, Take Stock students receive free college tuition. All college scholarship funds raised locally are matched 100 percent by the State of Florida.