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Scioto Gives Retreat

In 202 days, we will host our 12th annual Scioto Gives event! In preparation for this exciting day of giving, last Thursday, we brought together representatives ...
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Compass Point Housing Awarded $2,858.80

Last January, the Scioto Foundation Boards of Governors awarded Compass Point Housing $2,858.80 for its Recovery Housing Residents’ Welcome Kits. The Welcome Kits will provide essentials ...
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Celebrating 50 years in 50 weeks

The photo posted below contains the 1991 participants in the Junior Scholars program. Through the Bess and Marie Pixely Fund, the Miami Summer Scholars Program has ...
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Celebrating 50 years in 50 weeks

Pictured below are the outstanding students who qualified to attend the Midwest Talent Search programs held at Purdue and Northwestern University from the 1990's. This program ...
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Celebrating 50 years in 50 weeks

Published June 7, 1980, in the Portsmouth Daily Times. Pictured below are Bobby Shaw, Arnett Howard and Eddie Nix. In the 1980s the Scioto Foundation awarded ...
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Scott Phipps Memorial Scholarship Fund

Written by Kay Bouyack The Scioto Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the new Scott Phipps Memorial Scholarship Fund, created by his family. The Scott ...
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Melanie Ogg Memorial Scholarship

Written by Kay Bouyack The Scioto Fou ndation is pleased to announce the establishment of the new Melanie Ogg Memorial Scholarship created by her family in memory of ...
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$25,000 Wayfinder Grant to the City of Portsmouth

In the spring of 2022, the Scioto Foundation Board of Governors awarded the City of Portsmouth a grant for $25,000 from the Margaret Anne Strehle Fund, ...
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Celebrating 50 years in 50 weeks

It is truly remarkable to consider in 1993, the Scioto Foundation possessed assets totaling $7.39 million. Fast forward 30 years, and we are celebrating a record-breaking ...
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Celebrating 50 years in 50 weeks

Below is a newspaper clipping from the Portsmouth Daily Times published August 2, 1985. Since the mid-1980s, the Dorothy Knost scholarship committee has been awarding worthy ...
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