"Securing Brighter Futures"
Since 1952

VFIC Scholarships

Brighter Futures Scholarships

Since 1952, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC) has secured scholarship gifts to help ensure that access to private higher education in Virginia is an affordable option for students from all backgrounds and levels of financial need.

The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges is helping to meet our colleges’ critical financial aid needs by offering named scholarship opportunities to our contributors. The Brighter Futures Scholarship Program allows a corporation, foundation or individual to have one or more students at each of the VFIC's 15 member institutions selected as recipients of their scholarship. In addition to making an independent higher education possible for students who otherwise would not be able to attend, the program allows organizations to develop meaningful long-term relationships with students and "see" the positive effects of their philanthropic dollars. In FY2008, the VFIC awarded over $1.2 million in designated scholarship funds to our member colleges. These funds are providing approx. 730 students with opportunities to further their undergraduate education at our colleges and universities. Link to Brighter Futures Scholarship contributors' page

Virginia Scholars Fund

Each year, there are many Virginia high school graduates who wish to attend one of the state’s leading private colleges or universities but lack the financial resources. In the fall of 2003, the VFIC launched the Virginia Scholars Fund to give these deserving students the financial assistance needed to attend a VFIC institution where academic programs are strong, the educational process is personal, and career opportunities abound. The VFIC has pooled the more than $266,000 of contributions made to this Fund and dispersed it to the 15 member colleges since June 2004.

Regional Scholarships

Through the VFIC Regional Scholarship Program, donors designate gifts to go to deserving students from a specific area of the Commonwealth.  Support of our Regional Scholarship program goes directly to benefit deserving students, enabling them to complete their courses of study at the fine colleges and universities which are part of the VFIC.

Scholarships may be designated for students from the following regions:

• Greater Richmond
• Hampton Roads
• Greater Lynchburg
• Northern Virginia
• Roanoke/Southwest Virginia

Questions, please contact:
Mary-Beth Johnson, VFIC Acting President

Learn more about VFIC Scholarships for students attending VFIC member colleges and universities.

Check out the links to Financial Aid Offices at VFIC member colleges and universities.