Mike and Mary Jean Kruse Scholarship Fund Grant

Mike and Mary Jean Kruse Scholarship Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Last Updated: September 04, 2025

Summary

The Mike and Mary Jean Kruse Scholarship Fund, established by friends at Kruse & Associates, honors the founder by supporting students majoring in accounting. This scholarship aims to assist rising juniors, seniors, and graduate students from Tennessee who aspire to become Certified Public Accountants. With a focus on thoughtful generosity, the fund reflects the mission of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to foster positive change and build an inclusive community.

Overview

About Us For over 30 years, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) has been driving meaningful, positive change in our community. We do this by bringing together those who want to help and those who need help. Through the power of collective philanthropy, our goal is to amplify donor intent while remaining flexible enough to ensure that resources are directed to where they can do the greatest good. We know the greater Nashville area. We understand its neighborhoods, its most pressing challenges, its unsung nonprofit heroes, and its emerging partnerships with the greatest potential. As our region continues to rapidly change, that knowledge gives us a unique vantage point to bring people and places together to do what none of us can do on our own—build a more thriving and inclusive community. Mission Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee strives to build a more thriving and inclusive community — today and for generations to come — by transforming thoughtful generosity into positive change. Mike and Mary Jean Kruse Scholarship Fund Friends and colleagues at Kruse & Associates joined together to create a scholarship to honor the company founder, Mike Kruse, and to show how much they respect and admire him for his personal and professional accomplishments. Kruse and Associates was one of the fastest growing regional public accounting and consulting firms in the Southeast prior to merging with Crowe Chizek. For the 10th anniversary of the company, in 2003, staff members raised the money for this scholarship, which as Mike requested, benefits students majoring in accounting with the goal of becoming Certified Public Accountants.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applicants are rising juniors, seniors and graduate students majoring in accounting with a goal to becoming a Certified Public Accountant. Applicants must be residents of Tennessee and attend an accredited college/university in the State of Tennessee and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.2 or better.