Scholarship Funds
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Recipient of the John A. Johnson fund, with his Formula One race car at Milwaukee School of Engineering. |
What are they?
Scholarship endowment funds allow you to make merit, need or academic-based scholarship awards to students seeking to further their education.
With a scholarship fund, you can establish the criteria for selecting scholarship recipients and identify a conduit organization that best fits with the student population you want to support. Conduit organizations can be a school, charity or religious institution.
The Madison Community Foundation administers approximately 90 scholarship funds. Current scholarships assist high school students achieve their diploma, technical college students learn skills for a particular trade, returning adults achieve their dreams for graduate education, and medical students experience health care in other parts of the world. The foundation staff can help you create a scholarship that supports your passion for education.
The more than $220,000 in annual scholarship grants awarded through our scholarship funds represents a tremendous financial resource to students throughout Dane County and beyond.
Click here to view of list of scholarship funds at the Madison Community Foundation.
Highlights
- Our scholarships can support students of all ages who are obtaining their education and degrees at every level in the educational system.
- Scholarships may benefit a particular group of people such as women, people of color, or residents of a particular community.
- Scholarship awards can be one-time or recurring over a period of time.
- Scholarships must be permanent endowment funds and start with a minimum balance of $15,000.
- Foundation staff ensures that scholarship recipients meet fund criteria and fulfill scholarship award requirements.
To learn more about establishing a scholarship fund, download a sample
Scholarship fund agreement or contact
Amy Overby, Vice President, Donor Relations, at (608) 232-1763.