Interested in setting up a scholarship fund?

Here is an overview of the process:

Why choose a scholarship fund over other types of gifts?

• Many Marion High School Giants have achieved great success, and this can be a wonderful way to give back to your school and hometown.
• You will be able to award and help MHS students or employees (your choice) in perpetuity!
• Your name (or the name you give your scholarship) will be honored on the scholarship display wall at MHS with a plaque, and will have its own fundraising site on the web where others can contribute.
• You create the criteria for your scholarship and have the option to select your recipient(s) every year.
• Every year, in perpetuity, money will go to your recipient(s) in your name or the name you choose to honor.
• On MHSAA Scholarship Day, you can be there to pass out your gifts (in person or virtually), or the MHS Alumni Association and Marion High School can award them in your name.
• You would join other great alumni who have already established these scholarship funds:
  
  • Jason Taylor MHSAA Giant Spark Fund
    
  • Jack & Dave Colescott MHSAA Scholarship
    
  • Kerry Clevenger MHSAA Athletic Booster Club Scholarship
    
  • Beekman & Porter MHSAA Tennis Scholarship
    
  • Robert Hull MHSAA Business Scholarship
    
  • Kathleen Keller Family MHSAA Science Scholarship
    
  • Nellie & Rosie MHSAA Business, Marketing and Music Scholarship
    
  • Aruna MHSAA Scholarship
    
  • Fauser Family MHSAA Scholarship
    
  • And other scholarships including the Giant Battalion JROTC MHSAA Scholarship and the F. Ritchie Walton MHSAA Arts Scholarship

How to set up your scholarship fund:

1. $10,000 is the minimum required to open a permanent MHSAA Scholarship Fund!
   
2. The donor creates the criteria for their scholarship.
   
3. MHSAA builds a donor web page where anyone can contribute.
   
4. MHSAA acknowledges all donations on Facebook to thank donors and to promote the growth of your scholarship fund.
   
5. MHSAA creates a large donor plaque to be added to the display in the most traffic-filled hallway at Marion High School.
   
6. MHSAA creates a scholarship application based on the donor’s criteria (along with standard information we collect for all scholarships)
   
7. Scholarship applications are accepted Jan. 1 through March 31.
   
8. After the application period closes, MHSAA compiles applications sends them to the donor for their review. If needed, MHSAA and MHS can offer additional information upon donor’s request.
   
9. Donors can use up to 4.5 percent of their total fund to award scholarships each year. Donors can choose to add extra funds to award more scholarships. (Sometimes kind alumni offer financial matches, and sometimes the Marion High School Alumni Association offers the same.)
   
10. The donor decides the recipient(s), and MHSAA prepares award certificates and plans the awards ceremony.
    
11. In April, typically near the end of the month, MHSAA facilitates the presentation surprise to all of the MHSAA Scholarship winners. Parents are invited, as are the donors.