Fanchon B. Smith Scholarship Grant

Fanchon B. Smith Scholarship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
Amount: US $600
Last Updated: December 16, 2025

Summary

The Fanchon B. Smith Scholarship, established in 2013 by the Carla and Todd Rabe Family and the James and Fanchon Smith Family, supports non-traditional students pursuing higher education. With a non-renewable award of $600, this scholarship is aimed at adult learners aged 22 and older attending 2-year or 4-year UW institutions. Eligibility includes a minimum 2.75 GPA and consideration of financial need, fostering educational opportunities in the Fox Valley Region.

Overview

About Us We’re about connecting people with the needs of the community. We do this by connecting individual gifts to nonprofits through grants. Our knowledge about important issues facing the Fox Valley Region is based on strong relationships with nonprofits and our unwavering pursuit of understanding our community needs. Individual gifts, when joined with others given through the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, ensure the impact lasts forever so that our community will always flourish. We are a tax-exempt, publicly supported nonprofit organization managing charitable funds — mostly permanent endowments — created by many families, businesses and organizations. These funds generate grants for the long-term benefit of the people of the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin. Fanchon B. Smith Scholarship Established in 2013 by the Carla and Todd Rabe Family and the James and Fanchon Smith Family for a nontraditional student. Fanchon began her life-long dream of pursuing a college degree when her youngest child of five started kindergarten in 1970. As a non-traditional student, she attended college at night mostly on a part-time basis while working and raising her five children. She understood the struggles related to being a “Non-Traditional” returning student and wants to help support those efforts. Award Amount One non-renewable $600 award for cost of attendance, payable during the fall semester.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. New or continuing adult students (22 years or older) who will be attending a 2-year or 4-year UW institution Pursuing any major including undeclared Minimum cumulative 2.75 GPA Financial need will be considered

Ineligibility

Loss of Eligibility:Failure to register as a part-time or full-time student at a UW institution.