Where Our Grants Come From


Scholarship Funds


Scholarship funds help students primarily from Hampton Roads attend college. Donors created the specific criteria for the scholarships. In 2011, 352 students attended 65 different colleges and universities with help from our scholarships.


Fund Name, Year Founded Helen Murphy Addington, 1986


Value as of December 31, 2011 $ 107,034


For female graduates of Maury High School in Norfolk Kay White Baker Art, 1987


For Norfolk Public School graduates studying art The “Max” Bennis, 2007


For a student graduating from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach


Barron F. Black Theological, 1976


For students at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria


Jesse T. Bonney, 1981


For female students ages 25 and under Julia Atwater Bristow, 2010


For graduates of public high schools in Norfolk and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia


Clara Wahlig Burhans Memorial, 1986


For deserving students from Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach


C. F. and M. C. Burroughs Memorial, 1960


For students at Hampden-Sydney College Stephen Ashby Carpenter Memorial, 1994


For Norfolk Public School guidance counselors pursuing additional education


E. W. Chittum Memorial, 2005


Community Fund for Scholarships, 2007 For Hampton Roads students attending college


Richard Dickson Cooke and Sheppard Royster Cooke, 1951


For students at Union Presbyterian Seminary


J. Robert and Ettie Fearing Cunningham Memorial, 1992


1,002,870


For students from Hampton Roads with a preference for those from Norfolk and those planning to make education their careers


Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr., 2009 880,147


For students attending public high schools in South Hampton Roads who are in need of financial aid for post secondary education at a college or university


Hunter Davis Memorial, 1979 R. Franklin and Arbee R. Edwards, 1999


For students from Isle of Wight County Frank Fang Memorial, 2005


For Chinese or Chinese American students from Hampton Roads


30,633


For former Thalia Elementary School students who are graduates of Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach


154,359 40,720 44,556


For Chesapeake Public School graduates with a preference for students attending Washington and Lee University


28,828 158,567 919,782 16,082 642,792 872,224 2,494,787 46,834 11,958 51,683 Fund Name, Year Founded Palmer Farley Memorial, 2008


Value as of December 31, 2011 110,264


For students pursuing a master’s degree in mass communication with a concentration in brand management at Virginia Commonwealth University


Nicholas J. Georges, 1974 28,883 For Old Dominion University students of Greek heritage


Harry Bramhall Gilbert Merit Scholarship, 2004 427,728 For Chesapeake Public School graduates attending The College of William & Mary, James Madison University, University of Virginia or Virginia Tech


Everette H. and Edith P. Griffin Memorial, 2002 213,793 For students from western Tidewater or deaf and blind students from South Hampton Roads with a preference for students from Isle of Wight County


Hampton Roads Association of Social Workers, 1959


For graduate students in social work


Hampton Roads Sanitation District Environmental, 1999


For graduate students in environmental studies Colonel J. Addison Hagan Memorial, 1980


George D. and Marion Phelps Hamar HRBOR Scholarship, 2011


For self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) students from high schools in the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk or Virginia Beach


Joseph E. Harry and Bertha White Harry, 1990 2,515,625 For students at Old Dominion University or Virginia Wesleyan College


Pat Howe Jr. Health Care, 2005


For students in the allied health professions Anne Hurd Memorial, 1987


For female students active in Key Club or the daughters of Kiwanis Club members


Indian River Ruritan, 2011


For students graduating from public high schools in Chesapeake with a preference for students from Indian River High School


Louis I. Jaffé Memorial Scholarship, 1994 364,934


For graduate students in humanities at Old Dominion University and for graduates of Norfolk State University pursuing graduate degrees


James 2:26, 2008 1,506,937


For low-income students from Hampton Roads, with a preference for those living in public or subsidized housing who are attending a public college in Virginia


Thomas G. Johnson Jr., 1990


For Norfolk Public School graduates attending the University of Virginia


42 H A M P T O N R O A D S C O M M U N I T Y F O U N D A T I O N 55,907 48,904 27,528 75,103 60,695 320,175 For students at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington 24,913 31,097


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