The Crapanzano Scholarship Initiative

Thanks you to everyone that has donated over the years to the Crapanzano-Solano Scholarship. Your love and support continues to help make this program successful. 5 years and growing! Saturday night, we hosted our Biannual Scholarship Dinner. We welcomed the new scholarship recipients and their families. Here are mine and Zaira’s remarks from the dinner. Thank you.

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Albertus Magnus High School Class of 2019 graduation. One of the students was Cleó. Four years ago Zaira and I started The Crapanzano Scholarship Initiative. Cleó was the first scholarship recipient. I am extremely proud to have been a small part of this young man’s life for the past four years. He is kind, resilient, and has a determination that will undoubtedly help him succeed in college and beyond. Congratulations Cleó, my cousin Emma, and the rest of the Class of 2019!!! #fAMily

Tonight, two incoming freshmen at Albertus Magnus High School will win the Crapanzano Scholarship. Each student will receive $4,000 in tuition over the next four years. They will also have a dedicated professional mentor to help coach, counsel, and support them throughout high school. This marks our fourth year running the program. Thank you Albertus Magnus High School and congratulations students!!!

WE OPERATE AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM, AND THIS IS WHY Affirmative action programs make a lot of people uneasy. In America, most of us are taught that we could succeed in life if work hard and do well in school or at our jobs. Affirmative action programs undermine this American value. Affirmative action programs were originally intended to balance social inequalities that were remnants of centuries of racism and sexism. In many classic affirmative action programs, schools...Continue reading