The Healthcare Justice Scholarship benefits racial, ethnic, and cultural underrepresented populations pursuing careers in healthcare. The scholarship fund will increase opportunities; educate, train, and employ more individuals of a diverse background; and allow for more diverse perspectives in the healthcare field. The goal is to grow a diverse healthcare pipeline to improve health outcomes.

Stephen and Nancy Van Heyde established this fund in memory of their son, Ian. Ian was a senior at Whetstone High School and a distinguished student in culinary arts at Northeast Career Center. The purpose of the fund is to preserve the memory of Ian, an ever-smiling teenager, and to perpetuate his reputation for helping others. As he was intensely interested in a career in culinary arts, the scholarship fund will award scholarships to students pursuing postsecondary studies in the culinary arts, food management, or restaurant management.

The Girls on the Run of Central Ohio (GOTRCO) alumni scholarship supports alumni of the GOTR Central Ohio program who are graduating from high school and plan to pursue post-secondary education. The scholarship was created by the Board of Directors of BOTRCO to celebrate the accomplishments of GOTRCO alumni and to recognize, in part, the lifelong impact of the GOTR mission on its participants. To create the world, we envision where each girl recognizes their limitless potential, we are working to remove barriers places on girls and our volunteers of Color by societal and systemic racism. GOTRCO has accelerated our efforts to understand the detrimental effects of racism as a public health crisis in our community and how our platform as a nonprofit serving thousands of girls and volunteer coaches has the ability to cultivate anti-racism culture, while eliminating barriers to more equitably serve youth through physical activity and positive youth development programming.

Much of Sam’s life was shaped by the game of golf. At the age of nine, he started as a caddy at the Ohio State University golf course, later becoming a greens keeper and then working in the pro shop. Sam’s passion for golf blossomed into a promising amateur career. He was part of three Ohio High School State Championships at Columbus Aquinas. Sam went on to play golf at The Ohio State University, lettering his senior year, 1960.It was his tireless work ethic and the money he earned as a caddy that helped him finance his college education. After college and law school, Sam went on to launch a successful law practice, representing trucking companies before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Sam joined Brookside Golf & Country Club in 1976 and was a golf member for 40 plus years, including serving on the Board of Trustees and as President of the Club in 1983. He was a strong and generous supporter of the Brookside caddy program throughout, never forgot his upbringing and was quick to serve as a mentor for new caddies. Sam was notorious for saying “the best thing you could do for the game of golf was to support the caddy program.” He was so grateful for all of the good fortune that came his way by being exposed to the game of golf, and truly wanted others to enjoy the virtues of the game he loved.

The fund was established by John White, Sr., in memory of his late wife, Elsie Mae, who was concerned with improving the lives of disadvantaged children. Mrs. White was a self-taught woman with impeccable manners and style. The fund provides scholarship assistance in the form of tuition and fees to African-American students who are pursuing higher education or training at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to achieve specific goals. This scholarship is primarily for students attending, or planning to attend, land grant colleges and universities.

The Carol Strip Whitney Scholarship represents a life of passion, as she has taught gifted children for 45 years. Dr. Carol believes in the abilities of gifted children to make this world a better place. These children will be our leaders, our researchers, our inventors. It is her belief that an investment in their futures can only serve to awaken the important aspects of learning for the world of tomorrow. She had many incredible experiences with gifted children and their families throughout many years in the public schools, and after years in the classroom, she retired from public schools to start her own practice in serving the needs of the gifted child and their families. Dr. Carol operates Gifted Services of Ohio, which serves gifted children, grades K-12. She has also written three books on the subject of gifted education and received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in curriculum of the gifted adolescent. Her books include, Helping Gifted Children Soar, 2000 with a revision in 2012; A Love for Learning: Motivation and the Gifted Child, 2010, and she is writing Turning Stress into Success: A Handbook for the Gifted. It is Dr. Carol’s belief that too often the gifted child is not understood and that parenting a gifted child is like riding the world’s highest, longest, and most complicated roller coaster ever built. It takes support and understanding to help these children develop to their highest potentials. Applicants to the scholarship intend to be among the leaders of the next generation.

The scholarship supports members of the Westland Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in order to help young adults of sound character into their field of choice through advanced education.

Bopp Busch Manufacturing Company established this scholarship to honor its founding families, August and Eva Bopp and Chester and Betty Busch. The scholarship was created to give back to the residents of the area that made the business possible, and to encourage post-secondary education in general and more specifically in the skilled trades.

The scholarship was established by Naomi Blodgett in memory of her brother, John Martin Humm. John was born in Ashland County, Ohio in 1940. He lived all his life in the rural Jeromesville area of Ohio and was a farmer. He passed away in 2004. Naomi, also born in Ashland County, Ohio, is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in home economics education. She is retired from the Ohio Department of Education. The fund supports full-time students attending OSU's Agricultural Technical Institute, with preference given to candidates from Ashland, Wayne, Holmes, or Richland

This scholarship is in honor of Merle Fisher.