Celebrating 20 Years and Over $1 Million of Support to Upstate New York Nursing Students

MPB Fund now has a new relationship with the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. (www.mcsf.org) The MPB Fund is using this relationship to expand its mission to other states, communities and individuals hoping to make nursing a career. Click here for more information.

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Provides Micro-Grants for unanticipated emergency expenses that would otherwise keep nursing students out of the classroom.

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Over the last 20 years, the Mary Porcari Brady Fund has donated over $1 million to Upstate community colleges, helping hundreds of nursing students stay on schedule for graduation

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Nursing department chairs at the six community college campuses supported by the Mary Porcari Brady Fund have full control – and discretion – over fund disbursements.

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100% of all donations to the Mary Porcari Brady Fund support nursing students. Overhead and administrative costs are donated by the family of Mary Porcari Brady.

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All donations to the Mary Porcari Brady Fund are 100% tax deductible.

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All donations to the Mary Porcari Brady Fund are confidential unless otherwise desired. Donors are welcome to designate gifts in honor of an individual, family or organization – or to a specific community college.

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Our students, almost all of whom are adult students with multiple other life responsibilities, face situations that I cannot imagine overcoming. Yet they persevere, sacrifice and work so hard that they actually do succeed. When I see them at their pinning ceremony, proud and accomplished, I can only marvel at the achievement that they have reached. You are part of that achievement for several individuals who would have never walked across that stage without that little bit of life-changing support they received because of your contribution.

Laurel Sanger

Chair

MCC Department of Nursing – 2011

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You were there when I had no one and had almost lost hope. You gave me a chance without ever saying one word to me or knowing who I am….

K.B.

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After receiving this gift I was able to focus on the important things in my life and not just maintain my grades, but bring them up to A’s. Again, I am at a loss of words for what this means to me, and I look forward to the day when I can contribute so significantly to another deserving nursing student down the road.

A.B.

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Thank you so much for the funds you provided me to get my plumbing fixed. Because of your generosity, I can continue with the nursing program and graduate this December.

J.J.

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I am sincerely honored to have been selected as a recipient of the May Porcari Brady Scholarship. I absolutely would not have gotten to this point on my own. Thank you for your generosity.

The scholarship will be used to defray my rental expenses for two months. Which will allow me to continue with my studies and be stress-free as a nursing student at Finger Lakes Community College. The end of the road is in sight, and it is my goal to be successful and to walk that stage come May. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.

Thank you very much for enabling me to continue to do the hard work to succeed.

J.B.

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I would like to take the time to thank you again for your help while finishing my nursing degree. As a single mom of three, it has been hard keeping up with all my living expenses while pursuing my nursing degree.

This means so much not only to me but to my family as well! Having support like this allows me to keep up with my studies and not have to stress about how I am going to pay the rent.

R.K.

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I would like to extend my greatest gratitude to you for approving me for this wonderful scholarship. It means so much to me to receive the help I need to continue succeeding in school and graduate in May!

This scholarship is going toward my car payment which I need to travel back and forth to school without being so stressed.

Thank you so much!

J.C.

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This letter is in appreciation for the scholarship money I am receiving for my summer Nursing course. I am extremely thankful for the opportunity to be approved for this as I have been working for the last 4 years on my bachelor’s degree in the RN program.

I am a single mom, and I am trying to be a role model for my children and show them they can achieve anything they want with determination and effort. This scholarship will help me to complete the program and graduate. Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity as I would not have been able to complete my degree without this.

S.C.

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This scholarship is helping me keep a roof over my kids’ heads and electricity on…

R.M.

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I am eternally grateful and I pledge to pay it forward.

K.N.

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Created in 2005, the Mary Porcari Brady Fund to date has distributed over $1 million in direct grants to hundreds of nursing students at five Upstate New York community colleges, funding non-tuition expenses that could have forced them to withdraw from school. Expenses covered have included childcare, emergency auto repairs, utility expenses, LPN-to-RN program and other mandated testing fees, and out-of-pocket costs for nursing student supply bags (stethoscope, BP cuffs, etc.), uniforms, scrubs and shoes.  At the outset of the COVID-19 epidemic, the MPB Fund provided emergency funds for PPE for use in both classroom and clinical settings.  Created and maintained in concert with faculty at Monroe Community College, Onondaga Community College, Finger Lakes Community College, Cayuga Community College and Tompkins-Cortland Community College, as well as the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the purpose of the MPB Fund – to provide students a temporary bridge in times of unexpected need – will continue to be its guiding light.  All donations go directly to nursing students. The surviving children of the late Mary Porcari Brady cover all administrative overhead and ancillary costs.  We welcome your 100% tax deductible donations – for New York State residents donations are directly deductible from your personal income tax bill – to help us grow our impact in providing this vital support tool for nursing students in their time of need.