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2019 Boca Ballroom Battle Dancers Announced
Dancers from the 2018 Boca Ballroom Battle By Marie Speed, Boca Magazine April 18, 2019 I wish this blog had a drum roll because we are so excited to announce this year’s brave and mighty dancers who will compete in the 12th annual Boca Ballroom Battle for the George Snow Scholarship Fund! This is not an…
Read MoreGeorge Snow Fund plans to give $1M in scholarships. Here’s how the decision process works.
Maura Wilson, of Royal Palm Beach, and Garrett Flitton, of Jupiter, fill out paperwork at the George Snow Scholarship Fund’s office in Boca Raton before the interview portion of the scholarship application process. (Austen Erblat/Sun Sentinel Community News) By Austen Erblat, Contact Reporter, South Florida Community News April 11, 2019 After two days and 140…
Read MoreScholarship Fund President is Interviewed
Tim Snow, President of the George Snow Scholarship Fund is Interview by WPTV about how students can improve their chances of being selected by a college of scholarship provider.
Read MoreFrom genocide to freedom: War refugee, and Snow Scholar, Ana Gagula flourishes in Boca
Written by Gary Greenberg, Boca Raton Magazine January 27, 2019 Immigration is a hot-button issue in today’s divisive political climate, but few could argue that war refugee Ana Gagula hasn’t been a positive force since alighting in Boca Raton from her native Bosnia. Born in Sarajevo in 1991 to a Serbian mother and Bosnian father,…
Read MoreMonday meeting: Scholarship fund ‘helps young people who are helping themselves’
By Jeff Ostrowski Posted Jan 28, 2019 Tim Snow runs a scholarship fund that has given out millions to Palm Beach County students who struggle to afford the cost of college. Snow is president of the George Snow Scholarship Fund, a Boca Raton-based nonprofit named for Tim Snow’s father. George Snow died in 1980 when…
Read MoreFact Sheet
“Initially the George Snow Scholarship Fund began as a memorial to one philanthropic and devoted man, but it has grown to be much more than that. It is a community asset—a family of individuals, businesses, and community service organizations sharing the belief that education is the key to a better life, a better community, and…
Read MorePost Time: What happened to George Snow? Boca pilot gone 35 years
By Eliot Kleinberg, Palm Beach Post November 19, 2015 Readers: Amazingly, it’s been 35 years since George Snow disappeared somewhere over the Bahamas. In the decades since, his sons have raised millions through a scholarship fund. The fund held its Boca Ballroom Battle in August and a golf tournament Oct. 23. Its main event, its Cowboy Ball,…
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