Women In Leadership of Central Illinois Scholarship Fund
Thinking of going back to school or know a woman who is?
WIL would like to help!
What is the WILCI scholarship fund
Established by the Women in Leadership of Central Illinois to provide scholarship support for women in the Tri-County area who are pursuing secondary, post-graduate education, or certification at an accredited college or university. Preference will be given to business, management, or professional education programs. The scholarship is available to women who meet the following criteria:
Motivation to accomplish career and leadership goals.
Graduate of a high school or recipient of a GED.
Resident of the Tri-County area (Peoria, Tazewell, or Woodford counties).
Financial need is considered only when other factors are equal among applicants.
Non-traditional student, with a minimum of three (3) years in the workforce.
Applications can be submitted beginning in January.
The Application Deadline is the First Wednesday of March each year.
Women who meet the criteria for the WILCI Scholarship are encouraged to submit an application to the Community Foundation of Central Illinois by the First Wednesday in March each year. The recipient is chosen from the pool of submitted applications by the end of May.
For more information and/or to complete the online application process, please go to the Community Foundation of Central Illinois website:
The History of the WILCI Scholarship Fund
The Women in Leadership of Central Illinois Scholarship Fund was established in 2006 as a non-endowed fund targeted at assisting women in the Tri-County area who are pursuing college/university, postgraduate, or accreditation/certification for business management/professional, or entrepreneurial education. The award is intended to defer tuition, fees, books, and other academic expenses.
The WILCI Scholarship Fund was established and funded by the generosity of WILCI members through a variety of ways: monies collected at the monthly luncheons as part of the Birthday Auction and Toot Your Horn segments and proceeds from the annual Pathways to Success Conference. In 2007, the first $1,000 WILCI Scholarship Fund was awarded.
Due to the ongoing dedication of the WIL Board of Directors and members, the WILCI Scholarship Fund became an endowed fund in 2015. As an endowed fund, the WILCI Scholarship Fund will be able to continue to help women in the community indefinitely. In addition, with continuous focus on “feeding the fund” over time with proceeds from the WIL Annual Conference and other fundraising efforts, WIL plans to increase the fund’s impact by eventually being able to award annual scholarships of $1,500 or higher to two or more women each year.
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Women in Leadership welcomes all women leaders who want to join our organization so that we can congrigate and promote the success and development of women leaders in Central Illinois.