Impact

Terree Rowbottom established the Fount Rowbottom Designated Scholar Loan in 2021 in memory of her late father. One of eleven children, Mr. Rowbottom left school after graduating from the eighth grade. He...

It is so hard to feel connected in a world like this. Recent weeks have found me worrying about the loss of belonging among our board, staff, and community. What has caused...

We are a learning institution. For 102 years, we’ve professed belief in the power of higher education. Our foremothers understood that the right to learn and develop one’s thinking is an essential...

The Scholarship Foundation is proud to announce a new tool for review of organizational impact, the Equity Dashboard.  The Foundation publishes data to tell stories, document outcomes, and operate transparently. For the...

Guest Blogger Beth Andrews joined the staff of The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis in 2015. In summer, 2019 Beth first set foot on a college campus when she coordinated a student...

Names are important. Since I was a small child, people got my name wrong. Some called me Fay. I’ve been asked way too many times, “Are your sisters named Hope and Charity?”...

After you read what my Saturday has in store, you will no longer bemoan how hard I work or wonder when I’ll get a break to relax. No one else has a...

This week, The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis lost two elders of our 100-year old movement to bolster democracy by providing educational opportunity. Today, I am grieving the loss of Carolyn A....

Unbeknownst to him at the time, Darion Williams solved my dilemma about how to write a centennial year-end post. I just couldn’t bring myself to write the words pandemic, unprecedented, pivoted, or...

Brace yourself for a non-partisan and plainly stated call to action. It matters not what party you support or the political persuasion of the debtors in question. The federal student loan programs...

I’m calling our attention to love. In the midst of partisan rancor, governance without civility, and professionalizing ourselves away from seeing another person’s pain, so many of us are physically and emotionally...

This is a reminder that dawn comes even when we have no reason to believe that it will. This morning, I was awake at 3:00 A.M. The house was dark and the...