Celebrating our scholarship recipients.
Every name on this page represents a story of perseverance, hope, and community support. Each recipient reminds us how your generosity opens doors and changes lives. Explore our scholarship recipients by year, and join us in celebrating the difference we’re making together.
Devin – In Honor of Dani Herrera
Renewal in honor of our beloved artist Dani Herrera who has continuously donated her time and craft to Project iAm for nearly ten years. Dani loves hearing updates from Devin’s family as to his progress and happiness through the years!
Nathan –
Thank you Project iAm from Nathan
Jaxson – Renewal In Honor of The Andersons
Jaxson is going to be attending the Saras Garden Summer program as well as ABA at home therapy during the current pandemic. The Andersons continue to active in both the Maumee community and withProject iAm. As they have consistently supported our ventures, we are able to continue to renew scholarships for children like Jaxson!
Jacob – Renewal In Honor of Kim Steinbock And Jenny Reese
Jacob is using his funds for treatment at Wood County Hospital as well as the Maumee ROW Clinic. Jenny and Kim continue to outdo themselves and everything they do for Project iAm. Our kids area at Acoustics for Autism was the biggest and best ever this year thanks to these hard working teachers!
Kolden – In Honor of Laura Kutzli
Kolden will be using his funds for his participation in the Saras Garden Summer Program. You might find Laura around town helping promote and support the local music scene. At Acoustics for Autism, not only does she sign up to volunteer, but she promotes the event and spends all day taking pictures and videos for us to capture the magic of the day.Social media promotion costs companies a great deal of moneybut because of volunteers like Laura, that money can be put to better use, like providing funding for Kaiden!
Aithan – In Honor of Rita Seferian
Aithan is using his funding for Saras Garden Summer Program.Rita has been a part of the iAm family for years, although you may not see her often as she is stuck in the back of our events in charge of organizing and counting all of the proceeds we received. You might think this is an easy job, but it takes hours, even days, to make sure the accounting is correctly tallied. Having people like Rita volunteer her time to perform these important tasks, allows us the ability to give funds to children like Aithanwe dont have to spend our funds on hiring firms or employees, and all the funding can go where we promise it willto our iAm kids!
Brennan – In Honor of Roberta Koralewski
Brennan will continue using his scholarship at the Wood County Hospital for Speech Therapy. A note from the family:”This scholarship helps Brennan to be able to continue with the therapists who he knows and trusts and assists us with affording the higher frequency of sessions that can help him prepare for Kindergarten. We appreciate all of your support for the Autistic community and families like ours. Thank you so much for all you do.”
Brandon – Renewal In Honor of Lisa Mcgowan
Brandon is again attending speech therapy at UT and taking piano lessons with his scholarship money. Brandon and his mom continue to be active volunteers with Project iAm right along side Judge Lisa McGowan. We are so fortunate to have such great families and friends help this organization pay it forward to other families!
Gabriel – Renewal In Honor of Tj Stratton
“I wanted to share with you Gabriels amazing achievement last week at the UT preschool:During play time, he came up to a peer who was playing with some magnets on the wall and asked him Be my friend? and then started playing nicely next to him. This is the first time ever that Gabriel tries to make a new friend!!! His teacher was able to capture this moment in picture (see below).” –Tatiana, Mother
Landon – In Honor of Kim Kohl
Landon has been using his renewal scholarship for his third year of a Summer Reading Program. We were saddened and shocked to lose Kim Kohl in 2017, our faithful and fun volunteer. We are proud to continue to honor her family with funding for Landon.