Grants/Scholarships
Grants
The Foundation’s grant program focuses on providing the City’s volunteer rescue squad entities with a fiscal alternative to improve their overall operational capability. Grants will be made to eligible volunteer rescue squad entities to sponsor training, equipment and community outreach related to pre-hospital emergency care in the following categories:
- Equipment & Supplies
- Training and Education
- Community Awareness
- Capital Expenditures
- Recruitment & Retention
The Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation is pleased to announce the following squads as 2012 grant recipients:
Kempsville Volunteer Rescue Squad - $10,000 to be used toward the purchase of Glidescope Rangers.
Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer Rescue Squad - $20,000 to be used toward the purchase of an ambulance.
Chesapeake Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad - $20,000 to be used toward equipment purchases.
Scholarships
The Langhorne & Pulley Memorial Scholarship is a joint partnership of the Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad and the Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation. This fund was created in 2008 to assist eligible volunteer rescue squad members with the costs of their own college/higher education or those of their immediate family members.
The scholarship is open to any active operational or administrative member of the Virginia Beach volunteer rescue squad system (and their dependents) who has at least four (4) years of service and meets the remaining eligibility requirements listed in the documents below.
Congratulations to the following individuals who have been selected as recipients of the 2012 Langhorne & Pulley Memorial Scholarship:
Mark S. Decker (Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad)
Daina A. Kampe (Va. Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad)
Stephanie Krebs (Va. Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad)
Benjamin M. Leach (Va. Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad)
James A. Leach (Va. Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad)
Jennifer Pierce (Creeds Volunteer Rescue Squad)
Sidney V. Roeder (Va. Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad)
Jordan M. Stinson (Va. Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad)
