Acronyms
International Scholarships
State Scholarships
Cottey College
Misc.
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ELF
What is Educational Loan Fund is a revolving loan fund established in 1907 to lend money to qualified women students to assist them in securing a higher education.
100
This scholarship provides loans to students within two years of graduating.
What is Educational Loan Fund (ELF)?
100
This is the umbrella organization for the Sarah Porter Beckwith Friendship Fund and the Iowa Cottey College Scholarship Fund.
What is Iowa P.E.O. Project Fund Inc. (IPPF)?
100
A fully accredited, private liberal arts and sciences college for women owned and supported by the P.E.O. Sisterhood since 1927.
What is Cottey College?
100
This fund was previously called the Sarah Porter Beckwith Fund, Inc.
What is P.E.O. (Iowa) Project Fund, Inc.?
200
IPPF
What is Iowa P.E.O. Project Fund, Inc.
200
This scholarship is for students who are citizens of countries other than the United States.
What is International Peace Scholarship (IPS)?
200
The Sarah Porter Beckwith Home was located in this Iowa city and was a retirement home for P.E.O. sisters.
What is Mt. Pleasant?
200
Nevada, Missouri.
Where is Cottey College?
200
This Program provides P.E.O. chapters a way to make a special donation to P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Fund and have an IPS recipient partnered with them.
What is The Partners in Peace?
300
SPBFF
What is the Sarah Porter Beckwith Friendship Fund – awards grants yearly to provide for the health, education, welfare, maintenance and support of any deserving person.
300
The program for students you have had at least a 24-month break in education and are within 24 months of completing their program.
What is Program for Continuing Education (PCE)?
300
IPPF has given over this amount so far to deserving Iowans.
What is $1 million dollars?
300
The student to faculty ratio at Cottey College.
What is 10 to 1?
300
P.E.O. has given over THIS AMOUNT in financial assistance to more than 102,000 recipients of the ELF, IPS, PCE, PSA and STAR projects
What is $304 million?
400
ICCSF
What is the Iowa Cottey College Scholarship fund – second half of Iowa P.E.O. Project Fund, Inc.
400
A merit based scholarship for a doctoral degree candidate who is within 2 years of completing her degree.
What is The P.E.O. Scholar Award (PSA)?
400
The individual lifetime grant award from this part of the fund is currently $5,000.
What is Sarah Porter Beckwith Friendship Fund?
400
Students spend the first week of spring break HERE for educational modules.
What is Europe?
400
Linda DeBoer, Doris Scheidermann, Kelli Docker, Natalie Schneidermann, Marian Schnepf, Evelyn Baldwin, Roxanne Ackermann, Tami Murray, Dorthy Dykhouse, Polly MCDonald, Susan Te Grootenhuis, Bev Doorenbos, Lila Kennedy, Janine DeBruin, Shari Kastein, Jackie Telford, and Donna Shelly.
What is Names of International Project Committee Members?
500
P.E.O. (public definition)
What is - Philanthropic Educational Organization
500
The merit-based scholarship for high school seniors enrolling in a post-secondary institution upon graduation.
What is STAR?
500
This fund has been around since 1936 when Iowa State Chapter awarded their first scholarship of $450 each to 4 students attending Cottey College
What is Iowa Cottey College Scholarship Fund (ICCSF)?
500
This percentage of Cottey students had declared a major in the baccalaureate program in the past year.
What is 50%
500
Patricia Jackson, Shari Kastein, Phyllis TeSlaa, Shirley Roach, Judi Sieperda, Brynn Ladd, Rhoda Lange
What is Names of the P.E.O. Project Fund, Inc. Committee Members?