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Vermillion County Community Foundation Announces Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Recipient

The Vermillion County Community Foundation is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for Vermillion County, Cash Jones of South Vermillion High School. Lilly Endowment Community Scholars are known for their community involvement, academic achievement, character, and leadership.

“Cash excels in all the scholarship criteria but what sets him apart is his maturity and genuine interest in people. He wants to listen, offer support, prevent heartache, and give back to others with a purpose. He has strong goals for a reason but is so compassionate. Cash is a balance of confidence and humbleness,” said Nancy Reed, Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Coordinator for the Vermillion County Community Foundation.

Each Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship provides for full tuition, required fees, and a special allocation of up to $900 per year for required books and required equipment for four years. The scholarship is for full-time undergraduate students leading to a baccalaureate degree at any eligible Indiana public or private nonprofit college or university. Lilly Endowment Community Scholars may also participate in the Lilly Scholars Network (LSN), which connects both current scholars and alumni with resources and opportunities to be active leaders on their campuses and in their communities. Both the scholarship program and LSN are supported by grants from Lilly Endowment to Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) and Indiana Humanities.

“This scholarship is life-changing. It gives me the opportunity to focus on the next chapter of my life and not worry about financial concerns. I am just really grateful. It is hard to express,” Cash Jones stated when notified he was the 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar.

In determining Vermillion County’s Lilly Endowment Community Scholar nominees, consideration was given to criterion of academic performance, school activities and/or work, volunteerism, personal statement of need, letters of recommendation, goal essay, and interviews by the Vermillion County’s Nominating Committee.  After the field of applicants was narrowed down, nominees were submitted to ICI, the statewide administrator of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program, which approves the final selection of scholarship recipients.

“The high caliber applicants from North Vermillion and South Vermillion high schools are very impressive every year. These students are mature, goal-oriented, highly involved in their schools and communities, and strongly recommended by their counselors, teachers, and peers. Interviews reveal their character, personality, and factors that have led students to their career goals. The Vermillion County Community Foundation Nominating Committee is committed to their serious and compassionate decision-making task and aware of the impact of their decisions,” says Nancy Reed, Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Coordinator for the Vermillion County Community Foundation.

Lilly Endowment created the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program for the 1998-99 school year and has supported the program every year since with grants totaling in excess of $505 million. More than 5,200 Indiana students have received the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship since the program’s inception.

The primary purposes of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program are: 1) to help raise the level of educational attainment in Indiana; 2) to increase awareness of the beneficial roles Indiana community foundations can play in their communities; and 3) to encourage and support the efforts of current and past Lilly Endowment Community Scholars to engage with each other and with Indiana business, governmental, educational, nonprofit and civic leaders to improve the quality of life in Indiana generally and in local communities throughout the state.

Lilly Endowment, Inc. is an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly Sr. and his sons Eli and J.K. Jr. through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. Although the gifts of stock remain a financial bedrock of the Endowment, it is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion. The Endowment funds significant programs throughout the United States, especially in the field of religion. However, it maintains a special commitment to its founders’ hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana.

Since 1997, Independent Colleges of Indiana has administered the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program statewide with funding provided by Lilly Endowment. Founded in 1948, ICI serves as the collective voice for the state’s 29 private, nonprofit colleges and universities. ICI institutions employ over 22,000 Hoosiers and generate a total local economic impact of over $5 billion annually. Students at ICI colleges have Indiana’s highest four-year, on-time graduation rates, and ICI institutions produce 30 percent of Indiana’s bachelor’s degrees while enrolling 20 percent of its undergraduates.

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