SCHOLARSHIPS AND EDUCATIONAL
ENRICHMENT GRANTS
Scholarships are awarded in May of each year, except as noted below.
The Community Foundation offers a variety of scholarships and educational enrichment grants. The list below explains each award and its eligibility requirements. Click on the name of the scholarship to view application instructions and download forms where available.
College Scholarships
Scholarship: 19th Century Club Scholarship
Amount: $1,000 four-year, renewable college scholarships
Description: The Nineteenth Century Club promotes social responsibility and life-long learning as it serves our community.
Eligibility: Female graduating
seniors at Oak Park and River Forest High
School
Application Deadline: March 19, 2010
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Scholarship: Kathy McMahon Adams Scholarship
Amount: $1000 college scholarships
Description: The Kathy McMahon Adams Fund provides college scholarships to graduates of Ascension School in Oak Park, or parishioners of Ascension Church. Special consideration is given students considering the teaching profession.
Eligibility: Open to graduates
of Ascension School or Ascension Church parishioners.
(teaching focus receives extra
consideration) Application Deadline: July 1, 2010 |
Scholarship: Bolin-Cooper Scholarship
Amount: $1,200 four-year, renewable college scholarship
Description: The Bolin-Cooper scholarship honors the memory of former Hockey Club players Kevin Bolin, who died in 2001, and John Cooper, who died in 1979.
Eligibility: Open to members of the Oak Park-River Forest Hockey
Club.
Application Deadline: Contact the OPRFHS Hockey Club
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Scholarship: Catherine Devereux Brandstrader Scholarship
Amount: $1,000 college scholarship.
Description: Mrs. Brandstrader's grandchildren established this scholarship to honor their grandmother who raised eight children with her husband Frederick in Oak Park. All three sons attended college, but the family did not have the funds to send their daughters.
Eligibility: Female graduating
senior from Oak Park and River Forest, Fenwick or Trinity
High Schools and who is also from a large
family. Application
Deadline: March 19, 2010 |
Scholarship: Chicago Musical Arts Club Scholarship
Amount: $600 college scholarship
Description: The Chicago Musical Arts Club Fund provides a scholarship each year to a student or students nominated in alternating years by the Merit Music School and the Chicago Academy for the Arts.
Eligibility: Students at Merit
Music School or the Chicago Academy for the
Arts. Application Deadline: December 1, 2010 |
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Scholarship: Farr Brothers Technical Scholarship (Rotary Club)
Amount: $1,000 technical school scholarship
Description: The Oak Park-River Forest Rotary club was founded in 1919 and is dedicated to the Rotary mission of service above self.
Eligibility: Person entering or completing training in a vocation,
trade, or other than a four-year college program. Resident of Oak
Park, River Forest, Forest Park, Elmwood Park or
Austin.
Application Deadline: March
19, 2010
Scholarship: Kathleen
Marian Garrigan Leadership Award
Amount: $1,000 award to
individuals between the ages of 17-25 to participate in a domestic
community service project.
Description: The Kathleen
Marian Garrigan Leadership award was established to commemorate
the life of Kathleen Garrigan and inspire individuals to
participate in domestic service programs. Kathleen, an alumnus of
Oak Park and River Forest High School and St. Joseph College,
Indiana was participating in a year-long service project in Alaska
at the time of her death in 2007.
Eligibility:
Individuals between the
ages of
17 and 25 with an
uplifting attitude and a desire to serve others, one's community
and one's nation. Applicants are required to complete a brief
application and finalists will interview with the Kathleen Marian
Garrigan Scholarship selection
committee.
Application Deadline:
December 1, 2010
Scholarship: Bernard "Duke" Gawne Scholarship
Amount: $1,500 college scholarship
Description: The Bernard "Duke" Gawne scholarship was established in memory of Mr. Gawne, a long-time Oak Park resident whose children attended Oak Park and River Forest High School.
Eligibility: Graduating senior at
Oak Park and River Forest High School.
Application
Deadline: March 19, 2010
Scholarship: Oak Park-River Forest High School Scholarship Foundation Scholarships
Amount: Various scholarships
Description: The Oak Park and River Forest High School Scholarship Foundation Fund provides a number of scholarships and awards to graduating seniors at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Criteria depend upon the individual scholarship awarded.
Eligibility: Students of Oak Park
and River Forest High School.
Application
Deadline: March 19, 2010
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Scholarship: Rotary Club Scholarship
Amount: $1,500 college scholarship
Description: The Oak Park-River Forest Rotary club was founded in 1919 and is dedicated to the Rotary mission of service above self.
Eligibility: Graduating
seniors who are residents of Oak Park or River Forest and
are active in community service. Application
Deadline: March 19, 2010 |
Scholarship: Elizabeth Snow Memorial Scholarship
Amount: $500 college scholarship
Description: Elizabeth Snow was a much loved, respected and active leader in the civic and cultural life of Oak Park.
Eligibility: Graduating senior
at Oak Park and River Forest High School planning to pursue
the study of French. Application
Deadline: March 19, 2010 |
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Scholarship: John C. Swanson Scholarship
Amount: Various scholarships
Description: Named for the former superintendent of Oak Park and River Forest High School, this fund provides awards for enrichment programs for both students and staff at the high school.
Eligibility: Students and faculty of
Oak Park and River Forest High School.
Application
Deadline: To Be Announced
Scholarship: Tibensky
Family Scholarship
Amount: $2,000 four-year renewable college scholarship
Description: The Tibensky family established this scholarship to provide mentoring and opportunities like those their family received through similar programs.
Eligibility: Oak Park and River
Forest High School students.
Application
Deadline: Not available in 2010
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Scholarship: William
and Joyce Wartmann Scholarship
Amount: $1000 college scholarship
Description: Mr. Wartmann honors his mentor, art teacher Arthur Peltz, with this scholarship that encourages students that are inspired by the arts but might not have excelled otherwise academically.
Eligibility: Students of Oak
Park and River Forest High School, active in the arts,
special consideration given to students with mid-level
academic performance. Application
Deadline: March 19, 2010 |
Scholarship: Braley
Family/Wood Scholarship
Amount: $1,500 college scholarships
Description: This scholarship honors long-time community leaders James and Yvonne Wood.
Eligibility: Graduating senior at Oak Park and River Forest and Geneva
High Schools.
Application Deadline: March 19, 2010
Educational Enrichment Grants
Scholarship: Carlos Baldoceda Memorial
Scholarship
Amount: $1000 for programs, materials, equipment,
or instruction that furthers the applicant's
musical goals. The award cannot be used for
high school or college tuition or fees.
Description: Carlos Baldoceda was an Oak
Park resident who loved music but passed
away too soon from brain tumor complications.
Eligibility: Chicago area resident,
14-25 years of age, interested in music.
Application
Deadline: March 2, 2010
The Carlos Baldoceda
Memorial Scholarship may be applied for online at www.carlosfund.org
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Scholarship: Carlos Baldoceda
Senior Music Award
Amount: $1500 for
programs, materials, equipment, or
instruction that furthers the applicant's
musical goals. The award cannot be
used for high school or college tuition
or fees.
Description: Carlos Baldoceda
was an Oak Park resident who loved music
but passed away too soon from brain tumor
complications.
Eligibility: Oak Park and
River Forest High School Senior; overall Grade Point Average
of 3.0 or above; interested in music. Application
Deadline: March
19, 2010 The Carlos Baldoceda Senior Music Award may be
applied for online at:www.carlosfund.org
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Scholarship: Crystal
Fund Application
Agency
Feedback Form Applicant
Feedback Form
Amount: Up to $4000 for cultural/educational
travel programs
Description: The Crystal Fund was established to support
grants for an extended "away
from home" cultural or educational experience
that provide a skill, knowledge and/or personal
value as a means of support.
Eligibility: Scholarships are
limited to Chicago area students ages 11 to 19 that are able to
demonstrate extreme financial need and have a potential for
providing leadership.
No application
deadline.
Scholarship: Follett
Music Awards
Amount: $100 achievement
awards
Description: The Follet
Music Award rewards achievement by music
students at Oak Park and River Forest High
School.
Eligibility: Students
nominated by Oak Park and River Forest High School
faculty. Application Deadline: March 19,
2010
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Scholarship: Laura Southwick Award
Amount: $300-$500
awards to encourage work in the fine and
applied arts
Description: This award honors
the memory of Laura Southwick who loved
the arts and was an Oak Park and River
Forest High School graduate in 1986. For more information, please
visit:
http://laurasouthwick.org/
Eligibility: High School
Freshmen-Juniors
Application Deadline: May 15, 2010
Scholarship: Oak
Park & River Forest Rotary
Club Enrichment Scholarship
Amount: Up to $4,500
Description: The Rotary Club award
grants that allow students to participate
in educational enrichment programs that enable
them to explore new worlds, develop skills,
assert their independence, grow their self-confidence,
raise their expectations, broaden their horizons
and return home as leaders.
Eligibility: Current resident of Oak
Park or River Forest, and a freshman, sophomore or junior at
Trinity, Fenwick or Oak Park & River Forest High
School.
Application Deadline:
March
2, 1010
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Scholarship: Tom
Neumann Summer Learning Scholarship
Amount: Up to $6000 toward participation in an academic,
cultural or travel enrichment activity between the
junior and senior year of high school.
Description: The Tom Neumann
Memorial Fund honors Mr. Neumann's love
for travel, appreciation for all types
of culture and respect for the inherent
worth of all people.
Eligibility: Oak Park and
River Forest High School juniors. Application
Deadline:
March 2, 1010 |
Scholarship: Tibensky
Academic Enrichment Award
Amount: Up to $2,500 enrichment scholarship
Description: The Tibensky family established this scholarship
to provide mentoring and opportunities
like those their family received through
other programs.
Eligibility: Oak Park and River
Forest High School students
Application
Deadline: March 2, 2010
Professional Development Grants
Scholarship: James A. Gates Oak Park District 97 Teacher
Scholarship
Amount: $1,000 loan repayment
Description: This grant is awarded annually to a teacher
who aspires to positively affect the futures
of their students, embodies a worthy role
model for their colleagues, and enhances
the quality and the reputation of Oak Park
Elementary School District 97.
Eligibility: Certified teachers in their first or second year of
teaching in Oak Park Elementary School District 97.
Application Deadline:
April 15, 2010
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