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Written by Chung Tan, CEcD, Director of Economic Development

Single Parent Scholarship Fund is an amazing nonprofit that is effectively changing lives, one at a time.  They provide direct, financial scholarships to single parents to pursue career-related courses of study in order for the parents to find sufficient employment to meet the basic needs of their families.  Through their intervention, SPSF helps to make real positive changes not only in the lives and the living environment of the recipients but also in their children’s lives as well. 
 
SPSF raises funds in order to provide for the scholarships.  Many of the former recipients come back and serve this organization.  The Chamber was invited to send its Chamber Champions to volunteer in their envelop stuffing party! We worked in two-hour intervals.  We folded and stuffed over a thousand letters that would go to the community asking for financial support.  SPSF happily supplied the donuts and beverages. 
 
To learn more about this worthy nonprofit, please visit their website at http://www.spsfnwa.org/ and do consider making a donation or volunteering at one of their fund-raisers. 

​Jennifer Irwin, Director of Leadership and Governmental Relations for the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, was proud to volunteer at the Go Red for Women Luncheon last month. Nearly 1400 women and men attended the luncheon, which featured television personality and heart disease survivor, Star Jones.

Jennifer has been a volunteer for the American Heart Association for more than 12 years and has a passion for the Go Red Luncheon. This year, Jennifer worked with the models and choreographers on the Fashion Show that takes place during the luncheon.

Christina Hinds, Senior Go Red Director, said, “Jennifer has been involved with the Go Red For Women Event since it launched nationally and here in NWA in 2004. We added a Fashion Show with area survivors and volunteers a few years back and Jennifer was the natural fit to help emcee this position of the program. It is my pleasure to work with Jennifer each and every year and her passion for the mission is appreciated each and every year!”

Go Red for Women is the American Heart Association’s national campaign to increase awareness of heart disease — the leading cause of death for women — and to inspire women to make the choice to take charge of their heart health. Fundraising efforts support the educational programs that the American Heart Association provides and the life-saving research it funds to reduce the effects of heart disease in women.