Car Number Plates Are Educational – its official!

Hard to believe I know but number plates have actually saved scholarships.

Earnings from University of Montana specialty car number plates helped save hundreds of scholarships threatened by the economic downturn this academic year.

“We had a significant deficit last year,” said Keith Kuhn, vice president of finance and operations for the UM Foundation.

An emergency fundraising campaign by the Foundation raised almost $275,000, Kuhn said. It raised additional funds by asking donors to directly fund their scholarships for a year since the endowments they’d created had been crippled.

But that was not enough to save the scholarships available to students, so President George Dennison helped find extra funds.

Car number plates to the rescue again!