UPDATED: Last Chance — Deadlines You Need to Know This Week

Welcome to Last Chance, a place where we feature deadlines to apply for things such as a job or scholarship, to join a league or register to vote.

Here are five deadlines in Swampscott this week. One of them, the deadline to hand in senior scholarship applications, is today, Monday, March 26. Feel free to add you own deadline in the comments section below.

• The senior scholarship process is underway. The principal says each scholarship requires a copy of the two-sided application (the white sheet); a copy of the student’s resume; and a brief essay describing your contemplated program of studies at college. Applications are due on March 26 (applications cannot be accepted after deadline). Students are advised to check with their guidance counselor with any questions. 

 

• The Recreation Department is accepting applications until March 31, for summer jobs for lifeguards, park leaders, recreation, tennis, track and sailing. Applications can be picked up in the high school main office, Town Hall or on the Town Web site.

 

• Final Swampscott Youth Football & Cheering  (NECYFL)  Registration will be next Tuesday March 27th  from 7-9:00pm  at the Italian Club on Burpee Terrace  across from the Machon School. Check the Web site to printout a registration form         http://www.swampscottyouthfootball.org       new registrants should also bring a copy of their birth certificates. Any questions contact - Scott Faulkner (617) 212-8518.

• The Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN), the statewide organization that works to strengthen the nonprofit sector in the Commonwealth and raise its profile, has opened nominations for the fourth annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The awards recognize the work of exceptional nonprofits and nonprofit leaders in communities across the state.

The deadline for nominations is March 28. Full descriptions of the awards and nomination forms are available on the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network website:  http://bit.ly/2012MNNExcellenceAwards

Nominations for the 2012 Excellence Awards may be made in seven categories: 

• Advocacy
• Board Leadership
• Collaboration
• Communications
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Young Nonprofit Professional

The Nonprofit Excellence Awards will be presented at MNN’s Nonprofit Awareness Day celebration at the State House on June 11. Signed into law by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007, Nonprofit Awareness Day, an annual holiday raising awareness of the sector and celebrating its work, is the first state holiday of its kind.

Nonprofit Awareness Day was created to underscore the significance of the sector: Nonprofits currently provide 455,900 jobs in the Commonwealth and employ 16.7 percent of the Massachusetts workforce, according to a 2012 study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies.

The awards were conceived as a way to acknowledge leading organizations, and to create new opportunities for them to tell their stories and to reach out to residents of the state.

The Massachusetts Nonprofit Network was launched in 2007 to strengthen communities by serving nonprofit organizations in the Commonwealth. The organization raises the sector’s visibility, engages members in public policy initiatives, and builds capacity for individual organizations. MNN currently includes almost 500 members representing nonprofits in every part of Massachusetts, from the Berkshires to the Cape and Islands.

• April 27th is the junior class prom.  Tickets are $85 and may be purchased after school in room C205 with Mrs. Green, or during lunch (twice a week) with Mr. Kravitz.  Email Lisa Green (green@swampscott.k12.ma.us) with any questions.  Students need to pay their dues through junior year in order to be eligible to buy a prom ticket. Please email Bernie Kravitz for help with dues:kravitz@swampscott.k12.ma.us.  will be sold only until April 10th.  We will not be selling tickets at the door.

• The high school music director needs band students to pay, by the end of March,  the final payment for the Music in the Parks competition on Friday May 4, at Six Flags New England. The cost of each student’s ticket is $55. 

• Registration for Spring 2012 Intramural Youth Soccer, ages U5-U9 is underway. Visit www.swampscottsoccer.com to register.  Registration will remain open until March 31st and is $65.  A brief, non-guaranteed "late" registration period ($90 fee) will run from April 1st to April 7th (if we are unable to place your child on a team your registration fee will be refunded).  No registrations will be accepted after April 7th.