Bipartisan Maddy Institute event collects $66,000+ For Scholarships

 (July 6, 2012) – Fresno State's Maddy Institute raised more than $66,000 this week to provide scholarships for Valley students.

   The guest list for the Stanford Mansion event  included Gov. Jerry Brown, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff and Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway joined emcees John Burton, California Democratic Party chair, and Jim Brulte, former Republican Assembly and Senate Leader.

  The money raised goes to the Institute’s Bob Beverly Sacramento Legislative Intern Scholarship Program.  Students who earn these grants, work as legislative staff at the State Capitol.

The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute at Fresno State was established by the Legislature in 1999to honor State Sen. Ken Maddy, whose 28 years of public service demonstrated the successful application of personal integrity, legislative know-how and bipartisanship. 

Dave Cogdill, a former Senate Minority Leader and  Maddy Institute chair, said, “Sen. Maddy wanted the Institute to focus on training the next generation of Valley leaders and state problem-solvers. Providing our students the ability to learn firsthand  about the political process at the Capitol is one way we achieve that goal.”

     More than 50 legislative intern scholarships have been awarded so far. The Maddy Institute student interns have worked in 19 federal and state legislative offices.

Maddy Institute alumni now are employed in political offices, businesses and nonprofit organizations throughout the Valley, in Sacramento and in Washington, D.C.

 The institute‘s other programs include:

 -- “The Maddy Report,” aweekly 30-minute public affairs program that airson KVPT, Channel 18.1, the Fresno PBS affiliate; KSEE, Channel 24.1, Fresno’s NBC affiliate; and statewide on the California Channel.

 -- Maddy Daily, a public affairs enewsletter with almost 10,000 subscribers that chronicles public policy and politics in the San Joaquin Valley.

 -- “Maddy Political Insider,” a weekly 30-minute public affairs program on KYNO, AM 940, in Fresno.

The Maddy Associate Speaker Series. Speakers have included Gov. Brown; former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn; Alice Rivlin, former head of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Brookings Institution;David Walker, the U.S. comptroller general; the Heritage Foundation’s Alison Fraser; and David Zeeve of the Concord Coalition.

   Details: 278-1133.

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