Applying for a scholarship is as easy as 1-2-3!

Step 1:  Do your homework & know your options
Download the 2010 Scholarship Information Booklet  The booklet is a .PDF document.  To open the booklet you must have the most recent Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have the software installed on your computer, you can download a free version of the Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Web site.  

Step 2:  Apply

Option 1: Apply to Common Scholarships

Click here to apply:  2010 Scholarship Application


Option 2:  Apply to the Lilly Endowment Scholarship:
Only to be completed by students who have been nominated as Lilly applicants by their school.  If you do not know if you have been nominated or wish to be nominated, please contact your guidance department.  Only applications from nominated students will be accepted.

The deadline has passed.  Please check back in November for the 2010/2011 application.

Step 3:  Take advantage of useful resources
Read frequently asked questions and tips for applying.

Questions?
Call the Scholarship Student Information Line at 317.631.6542, ext. 279, e-mail scholarships@cicf.org, or see your guidance counselor.

Success Story

Jim East: One man. 18 scholarship funds. Infinite lives and generations changed
When his father left him at three with his invalid mother in a roach-and-rat-infested, one-room apartment in the Irish Hill area, near Fountain Square, the Boys’ Club on English Avenue (now one of five Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis) was the only place Jim East could find adult mentors who gave him the confidence he needed to succeed.

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