Lilly Endowment
Community
Scholars
The purpose of the Lilly
Endowment Community
Scholarship Program is to
help
raise the level of
educational
attainment in Indiana and
to
leverage further the ability
of
Indiana's community
foundations to enhance the
quality of the state's
residents.
Lilly Endowment provides
funds for Indiana
Community
Foundations to offer
scholarships to students in
counties served by the
foundations. The
scholarships
will provide full tuition,
required fees and a special
allocation of up to $800 per
year for required books for
four years of
undergraduate
study leading to a
baccalaureate degree in any
Indiana public or private
college or university
accredited by the North
Central Association of
Colleges and Schools.
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About the Lilly
Scholarship
Program
The Lilly Scholarship
Program is open to all
Indiana
residents who have
graduated by the end
of June with a diploma
from an
accredited Indiana high
school and who
have been accepted to
pursue a full-time
baccalaureate course of
study at an accredited
public
or private college or
university in Indiana.
Two scholarships will be
awarded to
students in Orange
County. The
scholarship selection
criteria and
procedures are set by
the
Scholarship
Committee in the
county.
Independent
Colleges of Indiana
(ICI)
administers
the Lilly Endowment
Community
Scholarship Program.
Recipient Requirements
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Recipient Requirements
Recipients of the OCCF Lilly
Community Scholarship are
required to affirm their intent to:
degree within four years at
an Indiana College or University
- Understand that the total
amount of the scholarship is
calculated on the basis of the
recipient's chosen college's
tuition and required fees
beginning with your first
school year of college.
The scholarship recipient will
need to keep the Orange
County Community
Foundation, Inc. apprised
annually of the academic
status during college and
post-graduation status
(education and/or
employment) for at least ten
years after graduations.
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Lilly Endowment,
Inc.
Lilly Endowment Inc. is an
Indianapolis-based private
philanthropic foundation
created in 1937 by three
members of the Lilly
family -
J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J. K.
Jr.
and Eli - through gifts of
stock
in their pharmaceutical
business, Eli Lilly and
Company.
These gifts remain the
financial bedrock of the
Endowment. It is,
however, a
separate entity from the
company, with a distinct
governing board, staff and
location.
In keeping with the wishes
of its
three founders, Lilly
Endowment exists to
support
the causes of religion,
education and community
development. Special
emphasis is afforded
projects
that benefit youth and the
leadership education and
financial self-sufficiency of
the
non-profit, charitable
sector.
One of the Lilly family's
foremost philanthropic
priorities was to build a
better
life. Although the
Endowment
also supports efforts of
national significance and an
occasional international
project, it remains primarily
committed to its
hometown,
Indianapolis, and home
state,
Indiana.
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About Independent Colleges of
Indiana
Founded in 1972, Independent
Colleges of Indiana (ICI) is a
nonprofit corporation, representing
31 regionally accredited, degree
granting, nonprofit independent
colleges and universities in the state.
The purposes of ICI are to collect,
analyze, interpret, and provide basic
information about the 31 colleges
individually and collectively as an
aid in their institutional planning;
assist member institutions with
information, staff expertise and
other appropriate resources,
including the administration of
grants for the collective benefit of
colleges; and represent the interests
of the independent college sector to
the media, the general public and
other audiences.
Among its activities, ICI provides a
variety of collective services for
member institutions in an effort to
realize efficiencies of scale to
reduce costs as well as collective
information about independent
higher education in Indiana to public
and private bodies as appropriate.
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