Help Fund Futures in Phoenixville

Time is running out to help fund a project that could make futures brighter in Phoenixville.

Dr. Richard Liston hopes to help out a group of deserving teenagers. He has a project called “Walk This Way” up on a website called RocketHub, and with funding raised on the site, plan to guide Phoenixville area students through the tricky process of scholarship applications, deciding where to go to school and more.

RocketHub is a site where people list projects, and then others can choose which ones to back financially. For Liston’s project, contributors can give as little as a dollar. For each increment of giving, there’s some reward the contributor will receive.

Liston hopes to raise $5,000 for the project, which would guide seven area students through the college application process. However, he said if he doesn’t reach the full funding, he still plans to do something, just on a smaller scale.

“I’m committed to doing something for deserving youth,” Liston said.

The project is live on RocketHub and can be funded only until it expires at 7 p.m. Monday.

Liston said he’s pleased with the response. As of this writing, $1,060 was raised.

“It was people in and out of Phoenixville who contributed,” Liston said.

A former Ursinus professor who now runs Sphere College in Phoenixville, Liston hopes to find students for the program through word of mouth, civic organizations and schools. Students will be chosen by June 15.

For more information on the “Walk This Way” project or to help with funding, visit the RocketHub page.