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Why give to a Foundation?
 

The Fayette Community Foundation was founded in 2001 with the goal of becoming this area’s premier resource for philanthropists, non-profit organizations, and community leaders.  A community foundation provides donors with flexible, efficient and tax-effective ways to ensure their charitable giving achieves the greatest possible impact. It does this by building, over time, substantial endowment funds. 

Fayette Community Foundation is working to grow its Community Impact Fund, an unrestricted endowment that is invested and continues to increase annually. Each year, a portion of the income earned by the Community Impact Fund is granted to fund local projects and programs that are enhancing the quality of life for all members of Fayette County and the surrounding rural areas. The principal - and your gift - remains intact and grows forever. This makes your donation a gift that continues to create solutions for generations and helps build the community of our dreams! This is philanthropy in its broadest and smartest form.

Scholarships

Fayette Community Foundation Scholarship

This is a minimum $1000 scholarship offering financial assistance to a high school graduating senior who intends to further their education and training beyond their high school degree at an accredited university, college, or trade school. Factors to be considered include community service and volunteer activities, financial need, a sound academic record and the character of the applicant. Priority will be given to students not in the top ten percent of their class but excludes no applicant.

FCF Technical Education Scholarship

This is a minimum $1000 scholarship offering financial assistance to a high school graduating senior who intends to further their education and training beyond their high school degree at an accredited trade school or program. Factors to be considered include community service and volunteer activities, financial need, a sound academic record and the character of the applicant. Priority will be given to students not in the top ten percent of their class but excludes no applicant.

Professions of the Healing Arts Scholarship

This is a minimum $1500 scholarship offering financial assistance to high school graduating senior from Lavaca and Fayette County who intends to pursue a career in audiology, speech-language pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or mental/behavioral health. 

Building Brighter Futures Scholarship

This is a minimum $750 scholarship offering financial assistance to high school graduating senior or college student from Fayette County who has been referred to a juvenile court in Fayette County to further their education. 

Joe & Carolyn Bailey Scholarship

This is a minimum $2500 scholarship offering financial assistance to first-generation students graduating from Flatonia High School who intend to further their education and training beyond their high school degree at an accredited university, college, or trade school. Factors to be considered include community service and volunteer activities, financial need, a sound academic record, and the character of the applicant. Priority will be given to students not in the top ten percent of their class but excludes no applicant.

Suzy Romberg Scholarship

This is a minimum $2500 scholarship offering financial assistance to first-generation students graduating from Flatonia High School who intend to further their education and training beyond their high school degree at an accredited university, college, or trade school. Factors to be considered include community service and volunteer activities, financial need, a sound academic record, and the character of the applicant. Priority will be given to students not in the top ten percent of their class but excludes no applicant.

FCF ML Scholarship

The purpose of the FCF ML Scholarship is to offer financial assistance to students graduating from La Grange High School intending to further their education and training beyond their high school degree at an accredited university or college. Priority will be given to students pursuing degrees/careers in science, technology, engineering, or math. Priority will also be given to students accepted at The University of Texas in Austin, Rice, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT or Stanford, if they can show the financial ability to attend for four years if awarded the funds.

The final phase of the selection process is a short personal interview with each student. A request may be made to a member of the high school staff to provide pertinent academic performance information regarding the applicant. This information, qualifications, and character traits will help to determine successful applicants.

The FCF ML Scholarship provides funding, through completion of the undergraduate degree program or to a maximum of five years, provided the funding criteria are met. This 2024 scholarship provides payment of up to $15,000, with disbursement awards divided among equal amounts at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters of each academic year. Summer school funding is generally not provided. A one-semester break in continuity may be allowed if the student experiences extenuating circumstances.

Cesar Villasana Memorial Scholarship

The Cesar Villasana Memorial Scholarship is presented in memory of Cesar Villasana who passed away from leukemia in 2022 at the age of 15 while he was a sophomore at La Grange High School. He was a kind, funny, positive person who loved and accepted everyone.


Applicants should be a graduating senior from La Grange High School who intends to further his/her education at an accredited trade school, college, or university. Factors to be considered include the character and financial need of the applicant.

Sampuesana 7 Scholarship

This is a minimum of $500 scholarship offering financial assistance to a La Grange High School graduating senior who intends to further their education and training beyond their high school degree at an accredited university, college, or trade school. Factors to be considered include scholastic achievement, community service and volunteer activities, extracurricular activities and work experience. 

Janet High Foundation Scholarship

The purpose of the Janet High Foundation Scholarship Fund is to provide educational scholarships for single mothers intending to further their nursing education and training at an accredited program. All single mothers currently enrolled in a nursing program are eligible to apply for a Janet High Foundation Scholarship. Priority will initially be given to programs within the central Texas area.

Online Scholarship Portal

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