Special Funds

Scholarship Funds allow you to invest in your community's future and show students you care. Evanston Community Foundation provides the fund management expertise to help you award scholarships to deserving students.  At present, the Foundation depends on students' current schools to select individual recipients for awards.

You can create a scholarship as a memorial to someone special, selecting eligibility criteria that exemplify that person's goals and values. Or, you may use it to express your educational values or those of your family or business. You may even elect to meet the students, something many donors find rewarding.

Current Scholarship Funds include:

• W.B.K. Beatty Scholarship Fund (2001) – for a graduating senior at ETHS who has a love of language, sense of adventure, and plans to pursue a career in writing or journalism.
• Chicago Urban Youth Scholarship Fund (2003) – for students in the college preparatory programs of Midtown Educational Foundation, a fund established by Dance Marathon 2003.