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Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program
The purpose of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program (LECSP) 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 life of the state’s residents.

Since the LECSP was first offered in 1998, the Dearborn Community Foundation, Inc. has been pleased to award Lilly Endowment Community Scholarships to Dearborn County students graduating from high school. For 2008, the Dearborn Community Foundation is eligible to nominate recipients and alternates for two full tuition scholarships. The Endowment hopes that this program will encourage many of Indiana’s most talented students to attend one of Indiana’s fine higher education institutions and after graduation consider pursuing occupations in Indiana.
 

Key Elements
  1. The LECSP provides scholarships for full tuition, required fees, and a special allocation of up to $800 per year for required books and required equipment for four years of undergraduate study on a full-time basis, leading to a baccalaureate degree at any Indiana public or private college or university accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
  2. The program is open to Dearborn County residents:
    • Who will have graduated by the end of June 2007 with a diploma from a regionally 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.
  3. Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) will receive and invest grant funds, approve nomination criteria and procedures, make final scholarship selections, make the appropriate scholarship payments to the selected colleges and universities, distributed administrative grants community foundations and book and equipment allocations to scholars, and provide administrative services for the LECSP.
 
Two finalists will be selected that reside in: City of Lawrenceburg, City of Greendale,
and/or Lawrenceburg Township; Center, Washington, Hogan, Manchester, Sparta, Clay,
and/or Caesar Creek townships; and/or Jackson, Kelso, Logan, York, Harrison, and/or
Miller townships.
 

SCORING SUMMARY:
 

Phase I
Extra Curricular Activities, Community Service, and
Work History Essay Weight: 40%
Academic Achievement Weight: 30%
Financial Need Weight: 20%
College History of Parental Education Weight: 10%
  • Goal: to reduce applicants to six (6) finalists, two (2) from each school district.
 

Phase II
Impromptu Essay Weight: 50%
Interview Weight: 50%
  • Goal: Recommend two (2) LECS nominees for approval by Independent
    Colleges of Indiana’s LECS review committee.
 

Amount of Scholarship :

Four-years, full-tuition plus required fees and a special allocation of up to $800 per year for required books and equipment at any Indiana public or private college or university accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
 

Eligibility Criteria:
  1. Must be a resident of Dearborn County;
  2. Must have received an accredited Indiana high school diploma no later than
    June of 2008;
  3. Must be starting college for the first time in the fall of 2008 (some exceptions may be made);
  4. Must be planning to attend an accredited Indiana college or university;
  5. Must not be applying to any other community foundation for the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship;
  6. Each scholarship recipient must decide where he/she will attend college and notify the foundation of the decision by Thursday, May 1, 2008; and
  7. Recipients are expected to provide the Foundation with an official cumulative transcript, a completed book stipend report, a 500-word essay concerning your accomplishments and setbacks for the previous year and your goals for the next academic year and completed contact information each year of your post-secondary education no later than Monday, June 2, 2008. The Foundation is required to maintain contact with Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship recipients for at least ten (10) years following his/her college graduation.
 

Evaluation Process:
 

  1. Submit your completed application to the Dearborn Community Foundation, Inc. office no later than 4:00 pm on Monday, January 14, 2008.

  2. Completed application must include an essay addressing the appropriate
    question(s).
  3. Application will be reviewed for eligibility, completeness, and professionalism.
  4. Applications will be submitted to the appropriate scholarship committee for evaluation based on the following: essay; academic achievement; financial need; and family history of higher education in descending order of importance.
  5. The Scholarship Committee will select six Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship finalists, two from each school district as previously described above.
  6. The finalist candidates will be invited to interview before the Scholarship Committee on Tuesday, February 19, 2008.
  7. Each finalist must arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the interview. The finalist will have 30 minutes to complete an impromptu essay before interviewing in front of the scholarship committee at his/her designated appointment time.
  8. Finalists must also be prepared to be photographed and to release the rights to use the photo(s) in any future public announcements concerning the Foundation’s scholarship programs.
  9. The Dearborn Community Foundation will receive approval of nominees on Monday, March 31, 2008. Recipients will be announced thereafter.
 
Click here for application instructions
 
All questions relating to available scholarship/educational grant opportunities should be directed to Jerri Worthington, DCF Program Director.
Dearborn Community Foundation
204 Short Street
Lawrenceburg, IN 47025
(812)539-4115 phone
dcfgrants@comcast.net