News Announcement THE SISLER McFAWN FOUNDATION MAKES $65,000 SCHOLARSHIP GIFT TO THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
For more information, please contact Cheryl Kight
or Lynne Briggs, 614-649-1950 ext. 111
With a cumulative giving total of more than $1 million, The Sisler McFawn Foundation has supported the mission of OFIC to provide access to independent higher education to Ohio’s students for 18 years. The Foundation has designated its support specifically to provide scholarships to students from Summit County and is currently providing scholarships to 35 students enrolled in OFIC member colleges and universities.
Christie Fleming is a senior in Education at Franciscan University of Steubenville and is a recipient, for the third year, of a scholarship from The Sisler McFawn Foundation through OFIC’s Ohio Scholars Program. She wrote to her donor, “I am so grateful for donors like you who have helped make higher education a possibility for me. I am excited for the day when I can teach the youth of the next generation and instill in them the desire to learn. I have truly seen how education can change a life, and by donating this scholarship to me, you are changing mine so that I can change others. Thank you!”
OFIC, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, is the primary corporate and foundation solicitation organization for 34 Ohio independent colleges and universities. OFIC member colleges collectively enroll 98,000 students. For 60 years the Foundation has worked to highlight the leadership, value and excellence of independent higher education. Through contributions raised in annual solicitations of businesses and foundations OFIC has provided unrestricted operating funds and scholarship assistance, thereby assuring continuation of excellence in independent higher education. OFIC is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of Ohio’s corporate leaders, as well as presidents of the 34 member colleges.
The member colleges are: Ashland University, Baldwin-Wallace College, Bluffton University, Capital University, Cedarville University, University of Dayton, Defiance College, Denison University, The University of Findlay, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Franklin University, Heidelberg University, Hiram College, John Carroll University, Kenyon College, Lake Erie College, Lourdes College, Malone University, Marietta College, Mount Union College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Muskingum University, Notre Dame College, Oberlin College, Ohio Dominican University, Ohio Northern University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Otterbein College, Urbana University, Ursuline College, Walsh University, Wilmington College, Wittenberg University and The College of Wooster.
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