Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing
educational

opportunity

Providing
educational

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Providing
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Providing
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Providing educational

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Providing educational

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Providing educational

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Providing educational

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About the
YSU
Foundation

The Youngstown State University Foundation is an independent, autonomous, private, nonprofit corporation that pursues, manages and distributes resources to support scholarships and student initiatives, as well as the growth and development of Youngstown State University.

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SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT TESTIMONIALS

“I look forward to the day I will be able to generously help students achieve their goals, just as this scholarship so generously helped me.”

-Monica Ellen Busser

“With the help of this scholarship I will receive my Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and hopefully my dream of attending medical school to become a doctor.”

-Kalliope Zembillas

“This scholarship will help me attain my goal of attending law school and pursue a career in public service.”

-Michael Marshall

“As a mother with one child in college and another ready to graduate, I cannot begin to convey exactly what this scholarship meant to me.”

-Anne Hassey

For over
fifty years,

countless students from all walks of life have been touched by some form of support from the YSU Foundation. Our mission and vision for the future have always remained to be a source of educational opportunity.

Your gift today can change someone’s future.

Group of graduate students at Spring 2021 Graduation

News

Handel’s President/Chairman of the Board Donates $100K to YSU’s McDonough Museum

Mr. Fisher (forth from the right) with his family on the Leonard J. Fisher Family Balcony in the McDonough Museum of Art. Leonard Fisher, president and chairman of the board of Handel’s Ice Cream, will be honored at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at Youngstown State...

Handel’s President/Chairman of the Board Donates $100K to YSU’s McDonough Museum

Apr 25, 2022

Mr. Fisher (forth from the right) with his family on the Leonard J. Fisher Family Balcony in the McDonough Museum of Art. Leonard Fisher, president and chairman of the board of Handel’s Ice Cream,...

Rick And Joni Blase Gift $100,000 to the Tressel Institute

Rick and Joni Blase, the owners of Boot Factory Outlet, have made a $100,000 gift to the James P. Tressel Institute for Leadership and Teamwork. Rick Blase is a member of the YSU Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Blase Family established the Blase Scholarship in...

Rick And Joni Blase Gift $100,000 to the Tressel Institute

Mar 1, 2022

Rick and Joni Blase, the owners of Boot Factory Outlet, have made a $100,000 gift to the James P. Tressel Institute for Leadership and Teamwork. Rick Blase is a member of the YSU Foundation Board of...

Dr. Amy Weaver Receives The Patricia McGovern Sweeney Professorship In Nursing

Pictured from left to right: President Jim Tressel, Alexa Sweeney Blackann, Douglas Sweeney, Patricia McGovern Sweeney, and Dr. Amy Weaver. Dr. Amy Weaver, an associate professor at the Centofanti School of Nursing, was designated with the Patricia McGovern Sweeney...

Dr. Amy Weaver Receives The Patricia McGovern Sweeney Professorship In Nursing

Dec 20, 2021

Pictured from left to right: President Jim Tressel, Alexa Sweeney Blackann, Douglas Sweeney, Patricia McGovern Sweeney, and Dr. Amy Weaver. Dr. Amy Weaver, an associate professor at the Centofanti...