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Community Outreach

In 2011 we're expanding our educational and outreach components to include two-year colleges, graduate and professional students and non-profit community organizations and will transition from dispersing traditional scholarships to awarding educational and community grants and fellowships.

Educational grants will be awarded to students attending two and four-year colleges and universities, and community and non-profit organizations in Northern Virginia can apply for the Community Outreach Grants to address children's, women's health and public health issues.  Fellowships will be awarded to graduate students. 

Our aim is to stimulate the develoopment of community-driven projects which effectively address local concerns, increase opportunities for positive community involvement, develop community leadership and organizational expertise, and enable community groups in Northern Virginia to take part in the wel-being, safety and overall quality of life of community members. 

Undergraduate Grants

• ECF Allied Health Grant ($2000)- tuition and fee award for a Fairfax or Loudoun County graduating senior or community college student in pursuit of a two-year degree in the allied health or science profession whose area of interest is cancer patient care.
• ECF Alma Palmer Grant ($3500)-tuition and fee award for a female Fairfax or Loudoun County graduating senior who will attend an HBC for four years. Currently awarded through 2013.
  
• ECF Estelle Gaymon Grant ($4000)-tuition and fee award for a female Fairfax or Loudon County graduating senior who will attend a four-year college or university in the U.S. full-time.
• Download grant application (PDF file)
  

• ECF Graduate Research Grant ($2500)-funds graduate studies at George Mason University in medicine, biomedical research, behavioral sciences or kinesiology which focus on innovative treatment and counseling activities for breast, ovarian or children's cancer
• ECF Graduate Fellowship ($1500)-funds graduate studies in education
• ECF Graduate Fellowship ($1500)-funds general graduate studies
• Download grant application (PDF file)

• ECF Community Outreach Grant ($2500)-funds first-of-a kind technologies and programs in Northern Virginia that render support services for breast or ovarian cancer patients and their families
• ECF Community Outreach Grant ($1500)-gives seed funding for new, innovative programs to drive educational achievement and increase the percentage of disadvantaged students who excel in mathematics, the biological, physical sciences, or technology.  Focus is on student results as demonstrated by admittance to highly rated schools (i.e. TJ), IBE or Honors programs.  This grant can be renewed based upon documented student achievement
• ECF Community Outreach Grant ($1000)-funds bridge programs for economically disadvantaged or at risk youth in Northern Virginia
• Download grant application (PDF file)

• Young Authors’ Program
• Annual Book Signing and Awards Luncheon

• Buckman Road (Quarterly)
• Supports children with:
• Social skills
• Career identification and planning
• Writing skills, creativity, introduction to the arts
• Foundations (Monthly)
• Mentoring middle and senior high school students
• Open conversations about future plans
• Sharing past experiences
• Discussions about health and drugs
• Orphans Foundation of America
• Volunteers assemble and distribute care packages to orphans in college three times a year
• Mother's Day Gift Baskets
• Kozy Kerchief™
• In support of Breast Cancer Month volunteers sew and package handmade kerchiefs
• Our Kozy Kerchiefs are distributed to women and children as they journey through chemotherapy
• Thanksgiving Day Gift Baskets
• ECF works with Fairfax Family Services to locate recipients Volunteers donate and deliver non-perishable food to families

For more information, explore our links or contact us.