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Melissa Legare Brown Scholarship
Melissa Legare Brown, a Boon Project supporter from the very beginning, a Boon Project Board Member, and a loyal loving friend to many in our organization, unexpectedly passed away on October 23, 2020.
In addition to her dedicated service and support to The Boon Project's mission of serving young adults fighting cancer, she was also an educator in the Charleston area who had a strong and lasting impact on her students with her creativity and passion for education.
For these reasons, The Boon Project, along with funds lovingly given in her memory by friends and family and a generous gift from her parents, Dan and Gloria Legare, has established the Melissa Legare Brown Memorial Scholarship in her honor.
The annual scholarship given through The Boon Project benefits a young adult who has faced cancer or a child of a parent who faced cancer as a young adult around the Lowcountry to pursue further education or career training after completing high school.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Melissa Legare Brown Memorial Scholarship. Click the button below to access this year's application. All applications are due by March 14, 2025.
Raise the crowns of the next generation.
If you would like to support the Melissa Legare Brown Memorial Scholarship fund, please indicate that your gift is in support of the scholarship in the comment box.
You can also give by mail. If you would like to send a check, please send it to the following address and specify your gift is for the scholarship fund in the memo.
The Boon Project
149 Fall Creek Blvd
Summerville, SC 29483
Scholarship Recipients
2024: Elizabeth Glander, Clemson University &
LaTonya Jordan, Denmark Technical College
2023: Drake Pugh, USC Beaufort
2022: Faith McLeod, Coker University
2021: Emma Black, Clemson University Graduate School