Scholarship Award

MRF Education Initiative

The Madison River Foundation is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit corporation. The Articles of Incorporation stated its’ purposes as charitable, scientific, and educational. The Board of Directors decided that we would satisfy the educational component by awarding college scholarships to graduating seniors at both Ennis High School and West Yellowstone High School. The seniors planning to major in an area related to helping protect, enhance and conserve rivers and their watershed’s will be encouraged to apply.

A group of MRF veterans …. Liz Davis and Richard Lessner, both past Executive Directors, and Bruce Richards, a past Board member, have volunteered to work with the schools to develop an applications process, set criteria, evaluate candidates and award the scholarships.  They are hard at work now and expect to award up to four scholarships, totaling as much as $10,000, by the end of this school year. 

 To help support this initiative please donate to the organization and indicate that your contribution is for our Education restricted fund.

Scholarship Awards

The Madison River Foundation would like to announce the availability of scholarships for graduating seniors from the Ennis and West Yellowstone school districts. There are four $2500 scholarships available, two each for Ennis and West Yellowstone High Schools.

The recipients of the scholarships will be college bound students majoring in subjects pertinent to the mission of MRF which would include fisheries, forestry, aquatic ecology, hydrology, biology and other related subjects. The MRF scholarship committee will select the recipients based on academics and financial need.

The scholarship funds will be used solely for tuition and books and will be administered by the college chosen by the recipient. Applications are available from each school and must be returned to MRF by April 18 each year.

For more information please contact the Madison River Foundation: Info@MadisonRiverFoundation.org.