Farmers Weekly Review

The Will County Farm Bureau Foundation Board is pleased to announce that they are now accepting applications for their 2025 scholarship program year. They are now offering fifty-two (52) $2,000.00 scholarships for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

Twenty-six (26) of the $2,000.00 scholarships will be awarded to high school graduating seniors of Will County Farm Bureau members who will be entering college in the Fall of 2025 as a freshman and whose parent’s membership is in good standing as of January 1, 2025, meaning their membership is currently paid up to date.

These scholarships are for any college or accredited school of higher learning or technology. The high school scholarship winners (to be determined in April 2025) will not have the funds disbursed until December 1, 2025, and the scholarship funds will be applied towards their second and/or Spring semester in 2026 for tuition, room and board or misc. college fees of their college freshman year in only after verification of enrollment for the fall semester has been determined by the Foundation Board.

All applications submitted must be typewritten or computer typed on the original application form.

An additional twenty six (26) of the $2,000.00 scholarships will be awarded to current college students and dependents under the age of 23 and/or current members (ages 23 and over) of Will County Farm Bureau members who will be college sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students or students pursuing a 6-8 year degree such as doctors, lawyers, etc. in the fall of 2025 and are Will County Farm Bureau members in good standing as of January 1, 2025, meaning their membership is paid up to date.

The funds for these particular scholarships will be awarded for the Fall semester of school towards tuition, housing and college fees and will be disbursed after August 15, 2025, to the college they are attending.

If an applicant received a scholarship from the Will County Farm Bureau Foundation during the last year of 2024, they will not be eligible for a scholarship in 2025. 2025 scholarship rules and procedures will be made available with the application form which will be on-line at our website www.willcfb.com on or after December 1, 2024.

If applicants are not able to download the scholarship application from our website, please call the Will County Farm Bureau office at 815-727-4811 and one can be mailed out to you and/or emailed to you.

The deadline for the submission of all scholarship applications is March 3, 2025. Any applications that are mailed must be postmarked no later than March 3, 2025, or dropped off at the office of the Will County Farm Bureau at 100 Manhattan Road, Joliet, on or before March 3, 2025.

It is mandatory that all applications are submitted with high school and/or college transcripts as well as be typewritten or computer printed as noted in the scholarship rules and procedures.

Please note: all applications must be signed by the applicant as well. If you have any questions or need a scholarship form mailed out to you, please contact the Farm Bureau office at (815) 727-4811.

To apply, go to www.willcfb.com.