Louis DeJoy and Aldona Wos Family Foundation News
Earlier this year the DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation granted Eastern Music Festival $20,000 in scholarship funding for North Carolina musicians.
This gift is presented in recognition of Eastern Music Festival’s long-standing commitment to educational and performing excellence. This gift promotes EMF’s commitment to educating young musicians in North Carolina.
The DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation has pledged a five year annual gift to support the TFAS 50th Anniversary Liberty + Leadership Campaign which provides scholarships for students attending TFAS programs in Washington, D.C. The annual support will be prioritized for students from North Carolina with financial need, as well as a full scholarship to a student from Estonia.
GREENSBORO – Eastern Music Festival is honored to announce receipt of $20,000 in scholarship funding from the DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation. This generous donation will provide scholarship assistance for up to TWELVE North Carolina musicians between the ages of 14 and 23 studying at Eastern Music Festival this summer.
The DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation has provided the Institute of World Politics (IWP) with a gift to support the matching of a $1 million challenge grant that was awarded to IWP by the American Institute of Polish Culture (AIPC) to establish the Kościuszko Chair as a permanent professorship and program at the school.
Business and civic leader Louis DeJoy was inducted into Junior Achievement of the Triad’s Business Leaders Hall of Fame on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center. The Business Leaders Hall of Fame inductees are visionary businessmen and women who are recognized and honored for shaping the Piedmont Triad North Carolina economic landscape. View the video.
The DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation is proud to provide funding to the Patriot Foundation, which focuses primarily on helping the children and spouses of servicemen and women that have been killed, wounded, and injured in the Global War on Terrorism. Supporting the Patriot Foundation has a high positive impact on family morale.
The DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation has once again sponsored the Wyndham Championship’s Wednesday Pro-Am, marking the family’s tenth year of sponsoring the event. DeJoy began sponsoring the Wednesday Pro-Am in 2008 when he was Chairman and CEO of New Breed Logistics, and in 2015 continued the sponsorship through the family foundation.
This November, we will gather to honor the memory of the more than 100 million victims of communism, to celebrate liberty where it has triumphed, and to further our pursuit of a world free from communism.
Thanks to a $1 million grant from the DEJOY\WOS Family Foundation, The Institute of World Politics has established The Louis DeJoy and Aldona Z. Woś Family Foundation Scholarship.
North Carolina business leader Louis DeJoy and his wife Aldona Wos are providing over $50,000 in scholarship funding to enable college students in North Carolina to attend summer academic internship programs organized by The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) and held in Washington, D.C. The students will intern with government agencies, media outlets, businesses and nonprofit organizations, while attending classes accredited by George Mason University.