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Who really gets the money?

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We often mentioned that we are a charity fund raising event.  That begs the question of “who really gets the money?” We can do more than just say that it goes to some giant fund. We can actually name the individuals who have benefited from all of your charity.

In general, our funds go to the Pat Boland Memorial Internship Fund run by Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications. The college uses the fund to aid deserving students who are interning around the country (the intern positions are often unpaid and can be a real financial burden to a student).

The Santa Crawl has become the largest annual donor to the Boland Fund. We’ve been fortunate to average around $10,000 over the last few years, bringing our total contribution to the Fund to around $60,000. Because of our, and others, efforts, the Boland Fund is fully funded and has been granting awards for the last seven years. A dozen students have now benefited from the award.

The 2019 recipients of the award were:

Megan and Cole became the 11th and 12th recipients of the Boland Award. Other winners in past years were:

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