Donor Stories
Many of our scholarship programs have been established by family and friends or organizations to honor or memorialize a loved one or admired colleague. Others have been set up to help students meeting defined criteria (high school, college, academic program). Designated grant funds provide an annual income to a specific organization. Examples of each of these can be found in the descriptions below.
Hillside and Valley Brook Cemeteries
(October 2021) An anonymous donor has established a fund with the Allegany County Area Foundation (ACAF) for the...
Barbie Ludden Scholarship
(March 2021) The Cuba Central School Class of 1981 has created a scholarship with the Allegany County Area...
Deputy Sheriffs Support Shop With A Cop Program
(January 2020) The Allegany County Sheriff’s Department continues its tradition of supporting the local Shop With...
Scholarship Will Help Wellsville Area Homeschoolers
(January 2020) New York and Pennsylvania current and future college students who have pursued their high school...
New Scholarship Honors Carl Atwell, Serves Andover Students
(Jan. 2020) The Carl Atwell Memorial Scholarship has been established to benefit an Andover Central School senior...
Deputy Sheriffs Entrust Scholarship Program to ACAF
(Dec. 2019) The Allegany County Deputy Sheriffs Association (ACDSA) and Allegany County Area Foundation (ACAF)...
Van Dines Honored through Grant Fund
(Nov. 2019) The Ken & Judi Van Dine Christian Service Grant has been established by the Grace United Church...
New Fund Will Support Whitesville Cemetery
(Sept. 2019) A beautiful setting that serves as the resting place for its community’s founders and generations of...
Shop With a Cop Tradition to continue with ACAF
(Sept. 2019) Founded in 1992 by Steve Havey, then manager of the Wellsville Kmart store, the local Shop With a...
Kelley Scholarship Supports Genesee Valley and Fillmore students
(Sept. 2019) The family of Leonard and Margaret Kelley has established a scholarship with the Allegany County...
New Fund will Support Andover Free Library
(Jan. 2019) Established by Andover native Robert Grossman, the Fund for The Andover Free Library will provide...
New Scholarship will help Friendship, Genesee Valley students
(Nov. 2018) Family, friends and coworkers of the late Penny Jo Hooker-Cavanaugh have established the Penny’s from...
New Scholarship Supports Wellsville’s Aspiring Teachers
(Nov. 2018) Thanks to the generosity of retired teacher Anne McAndrew, Wellsville’s future educators will get...
Shirley J. Weatherly Memorial Grant Fund
(Sept. 2018) Trudy Capitani was instrumental in creating the Shirley J. Weatherly Memorial Grant Fund. This fund...
Leslie Newland Thomas Memorial Scholarship
(Feb. 2018) The Allegany County Area Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the Leslie Newland Thomas...
Fund Created by the Friends of the Allegany Arc
(Dec. 2017) The Friends of the Allegany Arc have created a new endowment fund at the Allegany County Area...
Betty Embser Wattenberg Scholarship Recognizes Service
(Dec. 2016) By Sandy Rigas - Special to The Daily Reporter WELLSVILLE - A Wellsville High School senior will...
The Ann Barwick Swift Memorial Nursing Scholarship Created for Lenoir High School
(Sept. 2016) Ellsworth Swift of Cuba, NY has recently created a scholarship endowment fund with the Allegany...
Fund Helps People with Eczema
(July 2016) The Jonathan A. Dahlgren Eczema Fund has been established at the Allegany County Area Foundation by...
Ann Swift Memorial Nursing Scholarship Serves CRCS Grads
(May 2016) Ellsworth Swift of Cuba, NY created an endowed scholarship fund with the Allegany County Area...
Wellsville Rotary Service Above Self Scholarship
(March 2016) The Wellsville Rotary Service Above Self Scholarship Fund has been managed by the Allegany County...
Wellsville Rotary Club Scholarships to be Managed by ACAF
With the creation of a new endowment fund the Wellsville Rotary Club Scholarships will now be managed by the...
- Scholarship Funds
- Designated Grant Funds
- Field of Interest Funds
- Donor-advised Funds
- Unrestricted Funds