Illinois Scholarships

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The Polish Women’s Civic Club, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting philanthropy and volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and supporting the Polish-American community through scholarships provided to qualified students of Polish descent in the Chicago area.

Beginning in May of their junior year and continuing through November of their senior year, any Illinois high school student who is interested in a teaching career is eligible for the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois program. Nominations for the 2012 Golden Apple Scholars program will open in April 2011.

Farm Credit Services of Illinois will be presenting twenty-five $1,000 “We Understand” Agriculture Scholarships to current high school seniors. Applicants must be college-bound high school seniors who are pursuing agriculture-related curriculum and careers. “Farm Credit is proud to invest in young people who have a passion for agriculture. We need some of the brightest of today’s youth to become tomorrow’s agricultural leaders,” says Dave Owens, Farm Credit Services of Illinois President & C.E.O. “The ‘We Understand’ Agriculture Scholarship program promotes the positive opportunities of exploring careers in the agriculture industry – including production agriculture.” Scholarship selections are based on a combination of academic achievement, participation and leadership in school and community organizations, and the applicant’s commitment level to an agricultural career. To be eligible, scholarship applicants must be high school seniors who plan to enroll in a college or university during the fall 2011 semester and who will be pursuing an agriculture-related academic major or career. Applicants must reside in one of the sixty southern counties in Illinois served by Farm Credit Services of Illinois. The scholarship application deadline is February 28, 2011. Applications for the “We Understand” Agriculture Scholarships are available at the 20 Farm Credit Services of Illinois branch offices and on-line at www.fcsillinois.com/scholarships.html. Questions about the scholarship can be sent to info@fcsillinois.com. Farm Credit is pleased to confirm that the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences has offered a $1,000 scholarship match to any 2011 “We Understand” Agriculture Scholar who enrolls in the College of ACES this fall. A $1,000 scholarship match from the College of ACES would be applied to the student’s Spring 2012 account at the University of Illinois. This is the eighth year of the “We Understand” Agriculture Scholarship program. More than $110,000 of college scholarships has been awarded by Farm Credit to 136 different “We Understand” Agriculture Scholars since 2004. Farm Credit Services of Illinois is a farmer owned and directed agricultural lending cooperative with $2.8 billion of assets. They provide competitive farm financing and deliver crop insurance expertise to 8,000 farm families, agribusinesses, and rural landowners in the southern 60 counties of Illinois. The mission of the U.S. Farm Credit System is to provide financial capital and financial services to agriculture and Rural America.

To help the architecture students of today become the designers of tomorrow, the Northeast Illinois Chapter of The American Institute of Architecture, in conjunction with The American Institute of Architects, is offering three scholarships of $2,000 each. Applicants must be United States citizens and be enrolled for the 2007-08 academic year in one of the 26 accredited architecture programs within the National Architectural Accrediting Board's East Central or West Central regions. Scholarships are available to currently enrolled architectural students, community college transfer students and high school seniors. Applicants also must be permanent residents of the chapter's service area, which includes Cook, DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties, except within the city limits of Chicago and areas south of Interstate 55 or east of the Edens Expressway. Past winners are ineligible. All applications, including two letters of recommendation, must be postmarked by May 31. Five applicants will be selected for June interviews and winners are expected to attend the chapter meeting in July to formally receive their awards. The scholarships are funded through the chapter's annual summer golf outing and are awarded yearly. Applications and instructions can be downloaded from the AIA/NEI web site, www.aianei.org. Students also may request a form by mail from the chapter office, by sending the request, including the student's name, current mailing address, school and current year in school to: AIA Northeast Illinois, 412 Green Valley Drive, Naperville, Ill., 60540.

BP Employees and dealers began the community scholarship program in 1987 as a way to invest in the success of youth in neighborhoods where BP operates businesses. Since its inception 22 years ago, the New York and New Jersey area scholarship program has provided nearly $2.5 million resulting in over 1,550 college scholarships. Each year our scholarship awardees are honored at a scholarship reception. This annual event provides an opportunity to recognize the scholarship awardees along with their families and also provides an opportunity for our students to meet BP representatives and other invited dignitaries. BP is pleased to support this initiative as a way of giving back to the communities in which we operate by encouraging local high school seniors to pursue their dreams of going to college.

The Daniel B. Goldberg Scholarship of $10,000 is available for award to a graduate student who is enrolled in full-time master's study preparing for a career in state and local government finance. This scholarship is funded by the Girard Miller Foundation. The winner of the scholarship is invited, as out guest, to attend the Government Finance Officers Association's annual conference, where the award is presented. Eligibility: * Currently a full-time student in a graduate program that prepares students for careers in state and local government finance and expecting to be enrolled in the spring semester of the year for which the scholarship is awarded (including graudates of that spring semester). * Baccalaureate degree or its equivalent. * Citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada. * Recommendation from student's academic advisor or dean of the graduate program. * Student has not been a past winner of a scholarship administered by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada are not eligible to apply.