Southern Indiana Living MayJune 2017

Crawford County, Indiana’s 2017 Lilly
Endowment Community Scholar
Crawford County High School Senior Bree Ann Tyler is honored
The Community Foundation of
Crawford County (CFCC), along
with its Board of Directors and
Staff, is pleased to announce Bree
Ann Tyler as its 2017 Lilly Endowment
Community Scholar (LECS).
The LECS Program offers this scholarship
each year through Indiana’s network
of community foundations. The
LECS program provides a four-year,
full-tuition scholarship along with a $900
yearly stipend for required books and
equipment to any Indiana college or university.
Tyler is a senior at Crawford County
High School and will be pursuing a degree
in Radiation Therapy in the fall of
2017. Tyler’s parents are Brad and Patricia
Tyler of Leavenworth, Indiana.
All Crawford County senior level
students were invited to apply. The community
foundation’s scholarship committee
used a double-blind approach to
review the applications, and the nominee
and alternates were then approved for
submission by the CFCC Board of Directors
to Independent Colleges of Indiana,
Inc. (ICI), the statewide scholarship
administrator for the Lilly Endowment
Community Scholarship Program. ICI
then had final approval of the entire process.
ICI is a nonprofit corporation that
represents 31 regionally accredited degree
granting, nonprofit, private colleges
and universities in the state.
The scholarship is the result of a
statewide Lilly Endowment initiative to
help Hoosier students reach higher levels
of education. Indiana ranks among the
lowest states in percentage of residents
over the age of 25 with a bachelor’s degree.
There were 142 scholarships awarded
statewide. •
For more information on the Community
Foundation of Crawford County, visit www.
cf-cc.org, email us at cf-cc@cf-cc.org, or call
us at 812.739.2616.
The CFCC was founded in April 1998 by a
volunteer Board of Directors that represented
a variety of interests from Crawford County.
To date, the CFCC has awarded nearly $6
million in grants for programs/projects
supporting Crawford County children and
youth, education, housing, health and human
services, the environment, technology
advancements, literacy and the arts, and has
awarded more than $2 million in scholarships
benefiting Crawford County students.
The CFCC currently manages more than
75 charitable endowment funds on behalf of
families, individuals, corporations and nonprofit
organizations.
2017 Youth Philanthropy Council
Pictured:
Front Row: Teresa Saling, Morgan Hollen, Bree
Tyler, Emily Williams, and Svitlana Wilhite
Middle Row: Erin Erwin, Sandreia Breeden, Abby
Mortensen, Abigail Pierson, Stephanie Johnson,
Haley Wilhite, and Jenna Ford
Back Row: Walker Bolen
Not Pictured: Trevor Knight, Brent Smith, and
Brianna Atwood
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