Scholarship Criteria

This scholarship is available to two different kinds of applicants. Part is for students graduating from Black Hawk County, Iowa, high schools who will be attending an accredited 4-year college or university. Students must have a high school GPA of 3.0 or higher; demonstration of financial need; membership in a church, synagogue or mosque; and good character, citizenship and leadership qualities. The other part is for seminary students at an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America seminary provided those students were originally Black Hawk County high school graduates. Priority goes to students with a college GPA of 2.5 or higher; demonstration of financial need and good character, citizenship and leadership qualities.

Give to the Fund

Financial gifts to the Russell and Dora Petrie Scholarship Fund with the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa allows the Community Foundation to award financial assistance to students pursuing higher education. As the cost of tuition continues to rise, it is more important now than ever to diminish the barrier of affordability and allow students to focus on what is most important - their education.