Scholarship Funds enable students to pursue academic goals and can be established by individuals, families, organizations and companies. Donors may define the guidelines for candidate selection or designate a specific field or study or college to be attended. The Foundation currently has 47 funds providing scholarships to more than 330 students a year. Click here to download the Scholarships Funds sample form.
 
Example: J. Robert and Ettie Fearing Cunningham Memorial Scholarship Fund

Ettie Fearing married J. Robert Cunningham in 1924 and promptly gave up her teaching career to devote herself to family and community work. But Ettie Fearing Cunningham never forgot her love of teaching.

In 1986 when Mrs. Cunningham wrote her last will she directed that the J. Robert and Ettie Fearing Cunningham Memorial Scholarship Fund be established with The Norfolk Foundation. Its purpose is to provide college scholarships for area students wanting to make education their profession. In 1992, after Mrs. Cunningham's death, the Foundation received $650,000 from Mrs. Cunningham's estate to start the scholarship fund.

Since then the fund has helped more than 50 prospective teachers pay their college costs. Today dozens of former Cunningham Scholars are inspiring students at many different grade levels.

"The scholarship was a godsend. I'm very grateful," says Amy Gazaway Dinsmore, a 1997 graduate of the College of William and Mary and a Cunningham scholarship recipient. Today Dinsmore teaches French and Spanish at a Hampton middle school.