Partnerships and Scholarships

  • GSEF Endowment Fund
    • 2023 GS Distinguished Alumni Honoree Bill Lendl and his family will be graciously matching donations to our Endowment Fund up to $50,000! If you’d like to support us in that effort, please visit bit.ly/GSEFDONORDRIVE.
    • This Endowment Fund ensures the long-term financial health of our vision and beneficiaries. This effort will provide a new way for donors to support our mission of enhancing learning and promoting success for students across our district.

  • Ashley Gongaware Kertes Fund
    • The Ashley Gongaware Kertes Fund will remove financial barriers for K-12 students who wish to participate in after-school and/or extracurricular activities. Through Ashley’s work at the District, she fervently believed that no student’s potential should be limited by their household income. GSEF is thrilled to announce this partnership with this Fund to preserve Ashley’s legacy of kindness and compassion by raising funds for the District’s most vulnerable students. If you’d like to support, please click here to learn more.

  • Joseph Nava Scholarship
    • The Joseph Nava Scholarship was established by his family, dear friends, and colleagues through the GSEF to celebrate Mr. Nava’s many years of service to the Greensburg Salem School District and to the community. Mr. Nava started his career as an educator in 1953 as a fifth-grade teacher and then went on to become a GS Junior High history teacher, wrestling coach, Assistant Principal, and then Junior High Principal from 1975 until his retirement in 1986. This is the first scholarship established for a Greensburg Salem administrator and is proudly managed by the Greensburg Salem Education Foundation.

  • Joseph A. Zahorchak Scholarship/Endowment Fund

  • The Ina Abraham Great Teacher Award
    • In 2022, The Greensburg Salem Education Foundation, with the generous contribution of GSEF Board Member and Alum Thomas Abraham, created and presented the Ina Abraham Great Teacher Award to three teachers – one for a GS Elementary Teacher (grades K-5), one for a GS Middle School teacher (Grades 6-8) and one for a GS High School Teacher (Grades 9-12).

  • Dorothy Stafford Scholarship for Nursing/Health Professions
    • Eligibility for the Dorothy Stafford Scholarship:
      • A Greensburg Salem High School student attending Westmoreland County Community College (WCCC) for Nursing or other Health Profession Programs.
      • If a GSHS senior does not apply or is not eligible for the Scholarship, then a GSHS Alumni attending or planning to attend Westmoreland County Community College may apply. The same criteria listed below will apply to GSHS Alumni. The GSHS Senior or Alumni must be accepted at WCCC.
    • Criteria for Applicant
      • The $1500.00 Scholarship will be dispersed annually through the Greensburg Salem. Education Foundation (GSEF) as gifted by the Ferrier Family Legacy Fund at the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County.
      • The applicant will have a GPA of 2.5 or higher.
      • The applicant must complete 4 units of English, 3 units of Social Studies. 2 units of Mathematics with one in Algebra, 2 units of science including chemistry and biology with related labs with a grade of C or above.
      • Preference will be given to a student demonstrating financial need.
      • Applicant must be accepted into the Nursing or Health Profession Program at the Westmoreland County Community College before the funds can be dispersed by the GSEF to WCCC.
      • Preference will be given to a student in the Nursing program. If no one applies who will be entering the Nursing Program, then the scholarship can be awarded to a student entering any of the Health Profession Programs.
      • The Guidance Department will have the application for distribution.
      • WCCC are available in the Counselor, Lynna Thomas’ Office.