We are now inviting anyone to donate to next year's Eastmont Founding Five Classes Scholarship. This will be our fifth scholarship. Can you believe it! We have already helped four deserving Eastmont High Seniors with their post high school education.

This year we have a new procedure for submitting your contribution. Since some folks had asked if the Founding Five Scholarship donation could be tax deductible, I exchanged emails with the Eastmont Foundation Point of Contact who told me the donations would be tax deductible if the checks were made out to the Eastmont Foundation since it is a 501c3 charitable organization.

Based on that here's how were going you do the donations this time so that anyone who wants to use it as a tax deduction can do so:

1. Everyone make their checks out to "The Eastmont Foundation" and then write "Founding Five Scholarship" in the Memo or For section on the check.

2. Then send your checks to me by December 31st and I'll put them all together and send them on to the Eastmont Foundation in early January. That way I can send a thank you to each of you who donated and send all the checks to the Eastmont Foundation POC in one package and make sure they all go to the Founding Five Scholarship.

Thanks in advance for your contribution of any amount.

Here's my address:

Gordy Parkhill
13469 N Flaxleaf Pl
Oro Valley AZ 85755

If anyone has questions they can call or text me at 206-963-6590 or email me at [email protected]