Our Students

Congratulations to our 2023 Scholarship Recipients

This year’s additional 27 recipients bring the total to over 110 students who will receive scholarships this year. The annual budget needed to distribute scholarships to all of the scholars is approximately $450,000 in 2024. The money needed to fund the scholarships is raised through a fundraising golf event held every other year, donations from Club members, and the generous support of local businesses.

The Founders Scholarship Fund, a non-profit/tax-exempt charitable organization founded in 1991 by Club Pelican Bay members, has awarded over $6 million dollars in scholarships to over 800 Collier County students since its founding.

2023 Scholarship Recipients

Barron Collier High School – Jenny Belandres Mendoza, Jack McElrath, Camila Rojas
Club Pelican Bay (Employees/Family) – Maryanne Medina, Dan Zhao
Community School – Gabriel Katz
Everglades City School – Taylor Dahlke
Golden Gate High School – Stephanie Anez, Stephanie Cazares
Gulf Coast High School – Franchesca Pearo
Immokalee High School – Stanley Bazelais, Luz Maria Cantero-Huapilla, Kamili Henry
Lely High School – Jennifer Bachmann, Krista Boodram, Mia Pellegriti, Uriel Trejo
Lorenzo Walker Technical High School – Dayanis Cuellar, Yanet Hidalgo Loyola, Casey Perez, Samuel Siahaan
Naples High School – Isaiah Barajas, Aidan Hubbell, Asael Jean
Palmetto Ridge High School – Nathalie Ospina-Ledesma, Rigoberto Tovar
St. John Neumann High School – Jesse Herrera, Christopher Rosato

Scholarship Recipients

Our scholars are some of the brightest students you’ll find attending college today. Their majors range from music composition to neuroscience.

The Founders Scholarship Fund averages 100 to 115 students attending colleges or technical institutions each year. They represent some of the most prestigious schools in the United States.

Here are some of the colleges that our students are attending or have attended.

American University
Arcadia University
Carleton College
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia University
Cornell University
Emory University
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agriculture & Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University Honors College
Florida Gulf Coast University
Florida International University
Florida Southern College
Florida Southwestern State College
Florida State University
Franklin & Marshall College
George Mason University
Harvard College
Lehigh University
Lincoln College of Technology
Marquette University
Middlebury College
MIT
Monmouth College
North Central College
Northwestern University
NYU
Ohio State University
Purdue University
Regis College
Saint Mary’s College
St John’s University
St. Vincent College
Texas Health and Science University
The Culinary Institute of America
The George Washington University
Tufts University
UC Berkley
University of Central Florida
University of Florida
University of Miami
University of Mount Union
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Florida
University of Richmond
University of South Florida
Vanderbilt University

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