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Michigan Gateway Community Foundation Highlights Student Success through Promise Scholarship

The Michigan Gateway Community Foundation (MGCF) is celebrating student stories and highlighting their educational journey through Buchanan Promise.

The Michigan Gateway Community Foundation (MGCF) is celebrating student stories and highlighting their educational journey through Buchanan Promise.

Buchanan Promise is a post-secondary education scholarship program that provides financial assistance to graduates of Buchanan Community Schools residing within the Buchanan School District geographic boundaries. Eligible students will receive a place-based scholarship to assist families with the cost of attending a college or university, trade or certificate program. 

In 2016, MGCF announced the scholarship endowment fund, funded by a $7 million bequest from the estate of Walter E. Schirmer, Jr., whose family established the foundation in 1978. Schirmer, who passed away in May, was a 1954 graduate of Buchanan High School and long-time advocate of the area.

The high school graduating class of 2017 was the first to receive the Promise Scholarship. Four years later, MGCF is sharing the stories of these students who are now graduating college through their video series Presenting: Promise Fulfilled. 

Their first video of the series highlights Alex Tobler who recently graduated from Adrian College and received the full $10,000 Buchanan Award Promise. 
 

Tobler shared that if she didn’t receive the Promise, she would’ve had to take out loans in the amount she received from the scholarship. 

“The Buchanan Promise has allowed me to continue my education. The scholarship has allowed people to try different things and use the money towards different things because it’s a gift and I think it’s a gift that keeps on giving,” Tobler shared in the video. 

Want more? 

Learn more about the Buchanan Promise. 

Watch the full Presenting: Promise Fulfilled video. 

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