Scholarships and Grants
The Alpha Chi Omega Foundation offers scholarships and grants each year to a variety of members, chapters and organizations. These opportunities are made possible thanks to the generosity of donors like you. Would you like to learn more about how you can honor your Alpha Chi Omega experience and provide life-changing financial assistance for our Real. Strong. Women. Experience? Learn more >
Scholarship and grant amounts vary each year depending on new donations and funds, fund criteria and the distribution amount approved by the Board of Trustees. As a 501(c)(3) organization, the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation can only fund endeavors considered charitable or philanthropic. Therefore, no grants can be used for member dues and fees.
Discover more about the financial assistance available to help our Fraternity, sisters and chapters achieve their goals and dreams:
Scholarships
The Foundation awards almost $350,000 each year in merit-based scholarships to collegiate and alumnae members to help pay for educational expenses. The scholarship application is open each spring on approximately March 1 for awards to be used the following academic year.
Educational Assistance
The Foundation awards almost $60,000 each year in need-based grants to collegiate and alumnae members to help pay for educational expenses. The annual application is open each spring on approximately March 1 for awards to be used the following academic year.
Chapter Education
The Foundation awards more than $50,000 each year in chapter education grants to collegiate and alumnae chapters to help pay for educational and philanthropic expenses. Chapters who are beneficiaries of chapter education funds are notified each summer of the amount of their grant for the following academic year.
Member Assistance
The Foundation awards more than $35,000 each year in member assistance grants to collegiate and alumnae members for financial needs related to emergency or crisis situations.
Fraternity Grant
The Foundation provides an annual grant to Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity to support of priority educational and philanthropic programs.
Love & Loyalty
Love & Loyalty funds are established by donors to provide sustaining annual funding for Fraternity educational and philanthropic programs. Annual grants from these funds are used to support the Foundation’s annual grant to the Fraternity.
Chapter Housing
Donors can make tax-deductible gifts for educational improvements to chapter facilities within the guidelines provided by the IRS. These funds can be granted to the local house corporation or the National Housing Corporation to pay for construction, renovation, redecoration, furnishing or operations of educational portions of the designated chapter’s facility.
Opportunity Grant
The Foundation honors three of Alpha Chi Omega’s special historic relationships through grants from three endowed “opportunity” funds. The Foundation supports Easter Seals, Star Studio at MacDowell and the National Panhellenic Conference’s Outstanding Campus Advisor Award from the annual distributions of the Lonn Easter Seal Fund, the Jennifer Jones Fund for MacDowell and the Alpha Chi Omega Centennial Fund.
For questions about any of the Foundation’s grant opportunities, email us.