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The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

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Grant Year Amount Program Name Program Area Description
2020 $25,000 education Learn more

The Bridges to Belmont Academic and Social Support Program provides foundational academic and social guidance to Bridges to Belmont Scholarship recipients as they transition from high school to Belmont University. These services include dedicated academic support staff, mentoring, and service learning opportunities.

2019 $50,000 education Learn more

The Bridges to Belmont Academic and Social Support Program provides foundational academic and social guidance to Bridges to Belmont Scholarship recipients as they transition from high school to Belmont University. These services include dedicated academic support staff, mentoring, and service learning opportunities.

2018 $50,000 Presidential Scholars and Leadership Development Program education Learn more

The Presidential Scholars program is a merit-based scholarship and leadership development program intended to produce future generations of community leaders. Presidential Scholars will engage in an intense, four-year service-learning and leadership development experience that partners them with a Middle Tennessee agency currently supported by the Maddox Charitable Fund.

2017 $232,300 Presidential Scholars Program education Learn more

The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

2016 $215,300 Presidential Scholars Program education Learn more

The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

2015 $199,000 Presidential Scholars Program education Learn more

The Presidential Scholars program is Belmont’s most prestigious, coveted award. This merit-based scholars program provides for tuition, books, fees, and room and board throughout the recipients’ college career. This outstanding program empowers Belmont to be a worthy contender as it recruits the best and the brightest students to its campus.

Jen Bailey is the Executive Director of the Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund, bringing her deep experience in community-based leadership, philanthropy, and movement-building to the organization.

Jen is the Founder of Faith Matters Network, a national Womanist-led organization accompanying spiritually-grounded leaders on their journey to heal themselves and their communities. Since its inception, Faith Matters Network has served over 25,000 leaders through its programs and initiatives. She is Co-Founder of The People’s Supper, a global initiative that has hosted over 2,000 gatherings in 135 communities to foster conversation and collective healing across lines of difference.

Committed to advancing social change through philanthropy and nonprofit leadership, Jen serves on the boards of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Fetzer Institute, and The Healing Trust, where she is the Board Chair.

An Ashoka Fellow, New Pluralist Field Builder, Aspen Ideas Scholar, On Being Fellow, and Truman Scholar, Jen holds degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where she was awarded the Wilbur F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. Her work has been featured by On Being with Krista Tippett, CBS This Morning, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She is also the author of To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope (Chalice Press, 2021).

email Jen: [email protected]