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Scholarship Sponsored by Elks National Foundation

The Elks National Foundation's scholarship schemes are strictly for undergraduate studies. A student is ineligible to receive more than one scholarship award or grant from the Elks National Foundation within a single academic year.

Excluding EEG, scholarship awards are confirmed through a Certificate of Award from the Elks National Foundation's Chicago office. Payments are made directly to the educational institution; we cannot pay students directly under any conditions.

Scholarship funds may be used to cover costs associated with attending the institution. To release payment, the student's school must send a completed Verification of Enrollment form to our Chicago office. Upon receipt, we will issue a check, payable to the school and sent directly to them, to establish credit for the student. Once the check has been mailed, we will inform the student.

Most check preparations occur between August and November. Therefore, students and schools should allow a period of four to six weeks for payment processing.

If a student withdraws from their course for any reason, any remaining balance from the award MUST be returned to our Chicago office directly. Transferring it to another institution or disbursing it to the student personally is NOT permitted.

It's the student's responsibility to follow up on all matters relating to their scholarship award.

All communications relating to a scholarship recipient must include the student's full name and their ENF ID.

The details provided here should not be distributed to publishers or any entities wishing to include it in a database. We receive numerous requests from students who pay for out-of-date or irrelevant scholarship information. Unfortunately, many sources do not publish complete, updated information consistently.

The Elks National Foundation does not offer loan schemes, vocational grants, or assistance for postgraduate study and does not maintain a mailing list.

If a student wishes to apply their scholarship funds to a study abroad program, the program must be billed through an accredited U.S. institution that grants degrees. We do not send funds to third party programs or vendors.

The Elks National Foundation retains the right to withdraw an award entirely if there is no communication from a student for two successive academic years.

For further details, please contact the Elks National Foundation Scholarship Office at scholarship@elks.org.