CIAO Awards 2025 Scholarships

The Colonial Italian American Organization Donor Scholarship program is proud to announce the recipients of our scholarship awards for school year 2025-2026. Each winner will receive a $2000 scholarship in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements, community involvement and leadership qualities.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

  • Gabriel Taha of Menchville High School in Newport News

  • Amelia Butler of Lafayette High School in Williamsburg.

CIAO fundraises throughout the year to support these scholarships, which are administered through the scholarship website BOLD.org. A CIAO member selection committee reviews all applicants and chooses the winners.

We are honored to support these exceptional students as they pursue their educational goals and wish them the best in their future endeavors!

CIAO Members in Next Door Neighbors Magazine

Several CIAO members have been profiled in Williamsburg Next Door Neighbors magazine in recent years. The archived articles may be viewed or retrieved using the links below. For some readers, downloading the PDF file from the magazine’s web pages might provide a better viewing experience than using the viewer provided on those web pages.

 

Member Featured in Italian Press

This full page story appeared January 26, 2023 in the newspaper La Provincia di Sondrio, which is the newspaper that serves the province of Sondrio in Lombardy. It features our very own CIAO member, Michael Pedretti, who is the Author of The Inside Story of Movement Theatre International's Mime and Clown Festivals; Time to Journey Home;  Begetters of Children; Diary of Giovanni Vener: An Immigrant's Journey to the Heart of America; The Book of Agnes, La Storia di San Bernardo, Il Libro di Agnes: La vita vroica di una madre italoamericana; and, the dog and i: twenty-seven poems. All are available at Amazon.com

COMING SOON: The Life of Peter: Common farmer, the father of eight, grandfather of seventy-four and twenty poems written in 2020