Recipients Gallery
 Celebrating our 2025 scholarship recipients! A heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsors, dedicated community members, supportive friends, and loving families. |  Celebrating another hardworking and deserving 2025 recipient! |  In May of 2025, we proudly helped the Salesi family after a devastating fire destroyed their Middletown home and tragically took the lives of their 3 precious dogs. We so enjoyed connecting with Maureen and Frank Salesi, and learning more about their family and their plans to rebuild. We find it incredible that they found their smiles in the midst of such a loss. It was an emotional meeting. |
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 A few of the dozen recipients we were able to support this holiday season—thanks to the incredible turnout at our 2024 outing. In Deanna’s name, we proudly spread the love right here in our hometown of Middletown. |  More of the wonderful families we were honored to support during the 2024 holiday season—made possible by your incredible generosity! |  More of the amazing families we were able to support this 2024 holiday season! |
 This is five of the six 2023 Middletown High School North Recipients! |  2022 Holiday Recipients at Harmony School |  It was an honor to help this hard-working young woman with funds for an upcoming surgery in 2022. |
 2022 Scholarship Recipients! Their leadership, sportsmanship, strong work ethic, and positive attitudes toward teammates, classmates, and life itself really resonated with us. These are the qualities so important to De and the way she lived her life! Way to go, graduates! |  2021 Scholarship Recipients! Thank you to all sponsors, community, friends and family who help us give back. We are looking forward to continuing the tradition of our Annual Golf Outing this year! |  Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, golfers, family, and friends, we were able to gift $3000 to Middletown families in need for the holidays. We presented $500 Target Gift Cards to six families and the response was overwhelming! |
 Our organization always appreciates the generosity and involvement of people like you, with every contribution going towards making Deanna Bottone Rose Memorial Scholarship Fund an even better Non-Profit Organization than it already is. We want to provide you with the correct and appropriate information pertaining to your mode of support, so don’t hesitate to contact us with your questions. In June, 2020 we were elated to offer scholarship funds to four individuals, including this hard-working |  How special to present an award to this young man at his home in June, 2020! He was so appreciative and wanted to hear all about De and how he wants to make her proud! |  Fantastic inaugural event at Jumping Brook Country Club in August, 2019! Great people had a great time raising funds for the Deanna Bottone Rose Memorial Scholarship Fund. Our family rallied together to plan and run a successful event and cannot wait to do it again! |
 We were able to start helping those in the community thanks to your generous donations! Deanna would be so happy and proud! More to come! |  We proudly donated $500 to the incredible No Limits Cafe in Middletown in December, 2020. And enjoyed a delicious lunch too! The generosity of family and friends are helping us spread the joy! THANK YOU! |  We were honored to present scholarship checks in person to the 2020 recipients. We shared with them the importance of the fund to our family and all about De... why she was so special and why she would be honored to award such well-deserving graduates! |
 Our family presented scholarships to two amazing female athletes in June, 2019. What a proud day! |  Presenting to four incredible student athletes at the inaugural scholarship presentation in 2018. |  Here we are at Deanna's Alma Mater, Middletown HS North, presenting to an inspirational young basketball player. This was the inaugural year for the scholarship presentation in 2018. We were all overcome with emotions and genuinely felt De's presence |
Local families send their gratitude
From Principal Erik Paulson: "On behalf of the Harmony Families you supported this holiday season, we want to thank you.... Although I did not know your sister, I am positive this is exactly what she would have loved to involved in. We live in a tremendous community and it is amazing that we have organizations like LLD that continue to give back."
"I cannot Thank You enough for this generous gift. I am so grateful to you and your family. This was such a wonderful surprise....Bless you for all you do."
"I was recently given a gift card by my kids school, and I don’t even have the words to thank you, I've been in my car in tears it’s been an incredibly hard year for my family....Thank you from the bottom of my heart"
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"I just wanted to reach out and say thank you so much for donating such lovely gift cards to Harmony School....This year has been really rough on my kids and myself but with this gift card, I'll be able to put a smiles on my children's face on Christmas morning. I appreciate this more than you'll ever know."