{"id":653,"date":"2016-06-27T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/?p=653"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:58:36","slug":"investing-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/investing-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PBAF_2016_ScholarDinner_039-crop-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PBAF_2016_ScholarDinner_039-crop-for-web-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"pbaf_2016_scholardinner_039-crop-for-web\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Permian Basin Area Foundation presented 289 scholarship awards totaling approximately $600,000 to students primarily from communities throughout West Texas. These were made possible by generous donors to the Foundation\u2019s more than 80 endowed scholarship funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScholarship awards represent an investment in the academic future of our bright young people. It is an impressive sum but the return on that investment in terms of impact on our community, state, and country is priceless,\u201d said Mark Nicholas, chairman of the Foundation\u2019s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<p>Donors establish scholarships for a variety of reasons\u2014to commemorate an important milestone, in honor or in memory of a loved one, or simply as a way to enrich the community. Every scholarship reflects the heart of the donor and the person or cause he or she chooses to honor. For information on how you can invest in the educational future of our students, contact Vicki Rice, scholarships and donor relations, at 432.617.3213.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about scholarship criteria or how to apply for the 2017-2018 academic year, visit www.pbaf.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permian Basin Area Foundation presented 289 scholarship awards totaling approximately $600,000 to students primarily from communities throughout West Texas. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}