Article: A jump on diploma while still in diapers ; The Alfond foundation expands its $500 gift for college savings to include every baby born in Maine.


Portland Press Herald (Maine)
12-12-2008
A jump on diploma while still in diapers ; The Alfond foundation expands its $500 gift for college savings to include every baby born in Maine.
Edition: STORM
Section: Front
Type: Cover Story

AUGUSTA --

Fourteen thousand babies could be born in Maine in 2009, and each one will be eligible for $500 to begin a college savings account.

So will each baby born in Maine thereafter.
On Thursday, Alfond Scholarship Foundation officials announced they will extend the $500 benefit to every Maine-born baby, a year after the group launched a pilot program at MaineGeneral Medical Center campuses in Augusta and Waterville.

Dozens of parents with babies crowded ...

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