Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing
educational

opportunity

Providing
educational

opportunity

Providing
educational

opportunity

Providing
educational

opportunity

Providing educational

opportunity

Providing educational

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Providing educational

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Providing educational

opportunity

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

Ward Beecher Science Hall Greenhouse Renamed in Memory of Sandy Simon

Pictured from left to right: Kim Simon, Jeff Simon, Wendy Weiss, Charlie Masters, and YSU President Jim Tressel. The Ward Beecher Science Hall Greenhouse is being named the Sandy Simon Greenhouse, in recognition of a $450,000 gift to renovate the facility. The Sandy...

Ward Beecher Science Hall Greenhouse Renamed in Memory of Sandy Simon

Jun 13, 2022

Pictured from left to right: Kim Simon, Jeff Simon, Wendy Weiss, Charlie Masters, and YSU President Jim Tressel. The Ward Beecher Science Hall Greenhouse is being named the Sandy Simon Greenhouse,...

YSU Foundation Announces New Trustees for 2022-2024 Term

The Youngstown State University Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of four new trustees to its Board of Trustees, with two-year terms that began on May 23rd, 2022. Germaine Bennett, Capri Cafaro, Dr. Chander Kohli, and Dr. Kathleen Padgitt are those...

YSU Foundation Announces New Trustees for 2022-2024 Term

May 25, 2022

The Youngstown State University Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of four new trustees to its Board of Trustees, with two-year terms that began on May 23rd, 2022. Germaine Bennett,...

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,...