Scholarships
The Woodinville Club of Rotary is a co-manager of the Scholarship Foundation of Northshore with the Rotary Club of Northshore and the Kiwanis Club of Northshore. In 2023 the scholarship foundation celebrates its 39th anniversary and will provide 96 scholarships valued at over $200,000.
Since joining the Foundation in 1988, Woodinville Rotary has invested more than $600,000 in college scholarships in seven endowment-style accounts within the Scholarship Foundation.
To date scholarship distributions from the Foundation have totaled more than $4,500,000 to over 2,300 students.
The primary mission of the Foundation is to:
- Obtain and receive public contributions.
- Establish and maintain individual scholarship account funds.
- Invest and professionally manage these assets.
- Insure that the scholarship sponsoring organizations and families receive money sufficient to provide awards in keeping with amounts and criteria established for each scholarship.
- Manage the Foundation’s assets in such a manner to preserve the contributions and to benefit as many scholarship recipients as possible.
Learn more about the Foundation at the Scholarship Foundation of Northshore web site.
Scholarships Making A Difference
Heidi Schauble is a remarkable example of the power of scholarships. Recipient of four scholarships totaling $26,000 from Woodinville Rotary, Heidi completed her masters of Education Policy at UW Bothell in June of 2015.
“I don’t know where I would be today if it weren’t for support from Rotary,” she said. Support started when Heidi was a ninth grader at Secondary Academy for Success where she found a real education home, advancing through Running Start at Cascadia College, transferring to UW Bothell for a bachelor’s degree in education and finally the masters achievement.
“Knowing Rotary was also there for me and others in the Music Project at SAS was really, really helpful,” she added. Even today she volunteers to help carry forward the Music Project with Bernadette Bascom, our club’s Paul Harris honoree. Heidi’s passion is helping young adults with special needs, crediting “music, Bernadette and Rotary” as paramount in her life.
At University of Washington Bothell she was a founder and first president of the Woodinville Rotary-sponsored UW Bothell Rotaract, a club for young professionals under age 30.
Learn more about the Foundation at the Scholarship Foundation of Northshore web site.
