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Scholarships to Help 348 College Students

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has awarded $916,981 in scholarships to help 348 students attend college this fall. Recipients come primarily from Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. They will attend more than 60 different colleges and universities. The scholarships come from 55 different scholarship funds administered by the foundation.

The scholarships were among more than $1.4 million awarded during the foundation’s second round of grants for the year. Click here for details.

 

Nonprofits Awarded Grants As Part of Celebration

Twenty-one nonprofit organizations in Hampton Roads were awarded a total of $12,000 in grants as part of the Foundation’s May 19, 2010 Philanthropy Celebration luncheon. Luncheon guests recommended grants to the organizations listed below. They chose from 66 nonprofits that had received Foundation grants in the past year or who have organizational funds at the Foundation.

Each recipient selected received a $500 grant from unrestricted or field of interest funds except for the three nonprofits with asterisks. They were selected by more than one table and received $1,000 grants. Nonprofits awarded grants were:

Business Consortium for Arts Support
Chrysler Museum of Art
Edmarc Hospice for Children*
The Endependence Center
Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia
Forkids, Inc.
Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement
I Need a Lighthouse Inc.
Lynnhaven River NOW
Park Place School
Portsmouth Museums Foundation
Samaritan House
Smart Beginnings South Hampton Roads
STARBASE Victory
Tidewater Arts Outreach*
Tidewater Literacy Council
Virginia Beach CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
Virginia Children's Chorus*
Virginia Symphony
YWCA of South Hampton Roads

$1 Million Grant to Help EVMS Alleviate Physician Shortage

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has awarded a $1 million, five-year grant to the Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation to help build a new education and research building for Eastern Virginia Medical School on its Norfolk campus. The 100,000-square-foot building will include classrooms, laboratories, training rooms, an auditorium and a cancer research center.

The grant supports an $80 million expansion to the medical school. With a shortage of physicians predicted for Virginia by 2020, EVMS' goal is to create the facilities needed to educate more physicians. It currently has 451 students in its medical degree program and 427 students studying for other health degrees. EVMS plans to increase enrollment in its M.D. program by 29% and in its 10 other health profession programs by 37% by 2016.

 

Friends Honor Josh Darden With $1.2 Million Scholarship

Forty friends and former co-workers have created the Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr. Scholarship at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. The scholarship was announced on February 4, 2010. Donors are contributing more than $1.2 million to start a scholarship for students graduating from public schools in South Hampton Roads who will attend college. Of the 40 donors, 20 are connected to the automobile industry. Most began their careers at Colonial Auto Group, which Darden owned until 1995. Darden helped may of them start their own dealerships or move on to management careers with other auto companies. To learn more about the new scholarship fund and how to support it click here.