Home run payoff.THE FLEDGLING WASHINGTON NATIONALS This article is about the current Major League Baseball team. For other uses, see Washington Nationals (disambiguation). The Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington DC. MAY HAVE finished the baseball season at the bottom of the National League Eastern Division standings, but their performance on the field still paid off for local college students. Back in August we to[d you about a promotion in which The Sallie Mae Sallie Mae: see SLM Corporation. Fund (www.thesalliemaefund.org), a charitable organization This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only. sponsored by Sallie Mae, would donate $750 for each home run, and $5,000 for each grand slam, hit by the Nationals to The Sallie Mae Fund Home Runs for College Scholarships Fund. By season's end, the team had racked up $92,000 worth of home runs for the fund, with Sallie Mae adding $8,000 to bring the total to an even $100,000. The program will award $2,000 scholarships to financially needy D.C.-area high school seniors or college students with a cumulative GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted of 2.5 or higher.--T.G. |
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