Elks National Foundation Scholarships and Grants

The Elks National Foundation provides more than $3.5 million in college scholarships each year. The Most Valuable Student (MVS) scholarships are open to ANY graduating high school senior. Legacy Awards are available to the children and grandchildren of active Elks members. Emergency Educational Grants are available only to the children of deceased or totally disabled Elks. The application process and deadlines vary for each of the programs. Applications for the Legacy Award and the Most Valuable Student scholarships will be available online at www.elks.org/enf on September 1, 2010.

Legacy Award applications will be completed entirely online, and are due on February 1, 2011.

The Most Valuable Student Scholarship applications are due to Lodges on December 1, 2010.

In addition to being available online, area high school counselors will be receiving information and applications for the Most Valuable Student scholarships. The school counselors should, hopefully, have the information by mid-September.

The 500 national MVS finalists will be required to submit a secondary application online. Top winners will be announced April 15, 2011.

After the December 1 deadline for the MVS scholarships, our Bismarck-Mandan Lodge Scholarship Committee will meet to determine which scholarship applications will be forwarded to the state level for further judging. Our lodge will forward the top 3 young men’s and the top 3 young women’s scholarship applications to the state level. Not only will those 6 students have the opportunity to advance to the national level for judging, each will receive a scholarship award from our Bismarck-Mandan Lodge.

If you have a high school senior, or know someone who does, please consider taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities!

Michael Deisz
Bismarck-Mandan Scholarship Chairman