Henrico Education Foundation General Application 2026
Description
Application Guidelines
- Applications should be completed with care and attention to detail.
- Your essay represents you. It should be typed, double-spaced and free of grammatical errors.
- A school transcript must accompany your application.
- Scholarship funds will be paid directly to the college, university, technical school, or community college the student is attending.
- Applications must be submitted by the deadline. No exceptions.
Note: Quotations from the winner's application may be used in Foundation publicity.
The Henrico Education Foundation (HEF) is an independent nonprofit organization in collaborative partnership with Henrico County Public Schools — the commonwealth’s sixth largest school division —supporting more than 48,000 students in 74 educational facilities. Since its formation in 1993, the foundation has provided almost $10 million in direct funding affecting more than 650,000 students, teachers, parents, and guardians across Henrico County. As a foundation, we do more than just provide additional funding for public education, we are innovators working in partnership with parents, teachers, and administrators, continually identifying and developing transformational initiatives that improve school performance and lead to student success.
The Henrico Education Foundation is leading the way in showing how education foundations can play meaningful roles in the development and implementation of high-quality programming for our community’s children. We fund creative instructional approaches with strong academic goals that directly address the opportunity gap and provide resources for teachers to support the most vulnerable students. The foundation’s unique role is vital to meeting the educational needs of our community’s children while providing partnership opportunities for businesses, community leaders and citizens to directly impact public schools. We are the largest education foundation in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and we support all schools in Henrico County, working to provide every student with the support and resources they need for success.