Ron Clark Academy Gets Grant

Randy L. Scritchfield, CFP, LUTCF, from Damascus, Maryland, secured a $2,500 grant from MDRT Foundation on behalf of The Ron Clark Academy.

Scritchfield, of Montgomery Financial Group and a 23-year MDRT member, is the active supporter of The Ron Clark Academy who nominated and endorsed the grant application. The MDRT Foundation grant will fund the Science Outreach Project to educate students about the environment. Specifically, students will investigate the impact that massive tree clearing and removal is having on Georgia's drought conditions.

This year, the MDRT Foundation will award more than $1 million in grants to more than 100 charities, on behalf of Randy Scritchfield, Charles McDaniels, CLU, CHFC, an 18-year MDRT member from Fayetteville, Georgia, will present this grant to the Ron Clark Academy.

The MDRT Foundation was created in 1959 to provide MDRT members with a means to give back to their communities. For more information on MDRT visit www.mdrtfoundation.org

The Ron Clark Academy is a private, nonprofit middle school in southeast Atlanta that promotes innovation and inspires its students through energetic teaching balanced by a strict code of discipline. For more information on The Ron Clark Academy visit www.ronclarkacademy.com