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NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION MAKES $35,000 SCHOLARSHIP GIFT TO THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES

The Nord Family Foundation has provided $35,000 in scholarship support to the 2009-2010 campaign of The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges (OFIC). 

With a cumulative giving total of more than half a million dollars, the Nord Family Foundation has supported the mission of OFIC to provide access to independent higher education to Ohio’s students for 57 years.   The Foundation has designated its support specifically to provide scholarships to students from Lorain County majoring in Early Childhood Education, Engineering, or Environmental Sciences or a similar area.  A specified number of these scholarships are to be directed to minority students.  The Nord Family Foundation is currently providing scholarships to 30 students enrolled in OFIC member colleges and universities.
 
Daniel Demyan is a recipient of a Nord Family Foundation Scholarship and is completing his sophomore year at Oberlin College.  He wrote to his scholarship donor, “I thank you for the support you have provided to my education and, ultimately my future.  You are a link in the chain of human generosity.  Your gift makes it possible for me to continue my education and, with this education I may one day be privileged to help those who have experienced the worst of this world by utilizing the gifts I have received from those who exemplify the best in it.”

OFIC, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, is the primary corporate and foundation solicitation organization for 34 Ohio independent colleges and universities. OFIC member colleges collectively enroll 98,000 students.  For 60 years the Foundation has worked to highlight the leadership, value and excellence of independent higher education.  Through contributions raised in annual solicitations of businesses and foundations OFIC has provided unrestricted operating funds and scholarship assistance, thereby assuring continuation of excellence in independent higher education.  OFIC is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of Ohio’s corporate leaders, as well as presidents of the 34 member colleges.

The member colleges are:  Ashland University, Baldwin-Wallace College, Bluffton University, Capital University, Cedarville University, University of Dayton, Defiance College, Denison University, The University of Findlay, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Franklin University, Heidelberg University, Hiram College, John Carroll University, Kenyon College, Lake Erie College, Lourdes College, Malone University, Marietta College, Mount Union College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Muskingum University, Notre Dame College, Oberlin College, Ohio Dominican University, Ohio Northern University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Otterbein College, Urbana University, Ursuline College, Walsh University, Wilmington College, Wittenberg University and The College of Wooster. 

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