Scholarship
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PFLAG Cape Cod Anne Toran Scholarship

Each spring, PFLAG Cape Cod awards several thousand dollars to a graduating senior from high schools across the Cape and Islands who will be furthering their education at an institution of higher learning. Students chosen for these awards have shown, through their actions and example, support and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community. Since 2003, we have awarded over $68,000 in scholarships!

In the spring of 2022, PFLAG Cape Cod will be awarding two scholarships for $2,500 each! If you or someone you know is a senior in high school and would like to apply for the scholarship, please follow this link to the application which must be printed, filled out, and submitted with the accompanying materials to the student's high school Guidance Department no later than Friday, March 25, 2022.

To be considered, the student and/or their Guidance Department must submit the following materials by the posted deadlines:

• the completed application with signed release form
• a one-page essay describing their efforts to support, educate, and/or advocate on behalf of LGBTQ+ people in their school and/or community
• two letters of recommendation: one from their Guidance Counselor and another from an adult who is familiar with their efforts on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community
• official high school transcript

To learn more about Anne Toran, the person for whom the scholarship is named, please follow this link.

In the spring of 2021, PFLAG Cape Cod awarded two scholarships totaling $4,000! More information about the two recipients is shown below.

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​About the 2021 Scholarship Recipients

​PFLAG Cape Cod is proud to announce that Annalisa Fratantoni and Siobhan Morris have been selected as the recipients of the 2021 Anne Toran Scholarship... congratulations to them both! Please read below about these wonderful individuals and of their support and advocacy of the LGBTQ community!
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Annalisa

Siobhan

Annalisa Fratantoni (she/they) and Siobhan Morris (she/her), two seniors from Cape Cod, have each been named the recipients of the 2021 Anne Toran Scholarship for their work on behalf of LGBTQ+ civil and human rights on the Cape and Islands. 

Annalisa, a senior from Falmouth who attends TEC Connections Academy, a virtual school based in East Walpole, and Siobhan, a senior at Falmouth High School, will each receive $2,000 for their work in support and advocacy of people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning.

As a high school senior during the pandemic, Annalisa was instrumental in helping to form an online club at her school that offers assistance, camaraderie, social support, and educational resources to LGBTQ+ students, their friends, and allies. As her school is entirely online, club members come from towns all across Massachusetts. Annalisa has also been a frequent speaker on LGBTQ+ topics before various student and community audiences and frequently marches in parades in support of LGBTQ+ pride, Black Lives Matter, mental health awareness, and other social justice issues. 

For her part, Siobhan has been actively involved in several social outreach efforts aimed at serving the needs of the LGBTQ+ community. One of these involves serving as a trainer and workshop facilitator for the Playbook Initiative, an anti-discrimination and bias prevention program sponsored by the Boston Celtics. In March 2021, Siobhan and her Playbook Initiative colleagues engaged hundreds of middle school students in anti-bias, anti-discrimination training aimed at building awareness of and empathy for members of marginalized social and sexual communities.

Annalisa, who enjoys ballet dancing, poetry, and playing clarinet, is a member of the National Honor Society. She plans to attend George Washington University in the fall of 2021 to pursue studies in international relations and criminal justice. Siobhan, whose interests range from dance and playing trombone in Marching Band to jazz and astrophysics, will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to undertake studies in medicine and astronomy.

​PFLAG Cape Cod proudly salutes both Annalisa and Siobhan for their courageous work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. We wish them the very best as they embark on the next stage of their academic careers!

​​Written by Rick Koonce, Board Member PFLAG Cape Cod

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​Congratulations to Annalisa and Siobhan for being awarded
PFLAG Cape Cod's 2021 Anne Toran Scholarship!
With our gratitude and well-wishes as they set out on a journey
​to make the world a better, kinder, ​and more inclusive place for all!