Scarlett Family Foundation

The Scarlett Family Foundation advocates, invests, and works to ensure that all students in Middle Tennessee have access to a high-quality education.

Joe and Dorothy Scarlett are strong believers in the power of education to transform lives. With the help of their children, they put this belief into action by establishing the Scarlett Family Foundation in 2006 to provide merit and need-based college scholarships to Middle Tennessee students pursuing business degrees.

Since then, the Foundation has expanded its mission. In 2008 the Foundation added grant-making, partnering with non-profit organizations to help all Middle Tennessee students received a high-quality education. Today, these grants align with four key initiatives— college and career readiness, principal and teacher leadership, literacy, and advocacy.

In 2015, the Foundation expanded the scholarship program to include STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors. Since 2006, the Scarlett Family Foundation has awarded over $19M in college scholarships, helping more than 700 students pursue higher education degrees. These students are attending public and private colleges and universities throughout the United States and represent 148 high schools in 37 counties across middle Tennessee.

The Foundation’s Key Initiatives

The Foundation’s cornerstone initiative is the Scarlett Scholars program, providing need and merit based scholarships to Middle Tennessee students. As we work to provide students access to a high-quality education, we also award a limited number of grants to non-profit organizations in alignment with our four key initiatives:

College and Career Readiness
Increase college and career readiness. As over half of future jobs will require a post-secondary degree, we are invested in ways to better prepare our students for success after high school, which includes ensuring student literacy at every step and growing access to higher education.

Principal and Teacher Leadership
Improve student achievement with highly effective teachers year-over-year. We support organizations that foster diverse talent pipelines to recruit, train, and retain high-quality superintendents, principals, and teachers so every student has the opportunity to learn from the best.

Literacy
Boost the number of third-graders reading at or above grade level. Literacy is a key building block for academic success, a crucial bridge to the attainment of a post-secondary credential, and essential to a self-sustaining life. We invest in organizations that promote innovative literacy strategies Middle Tennessee.

Advocacy
Engage with stakeholders across our state and community to advocate for student-centered solutions. We are committed to advocacy efforts that connect and empower diverse voices in support of excellent education for every child.

GOING BEYOND SCHOLARSHIP

While the Foundation’s scholarship program aims to advance postsecondary opportunity for Middle Tennessee students, we look to our Grants Initiative to support excellence in the spaces of Literacy, Principal & Teacher Literacy, and Career Readiness.

By forging partnerships with local nonprofit organizations and institutions, we strive to ignite transformative change for students, teachers, stakeholders and communities.

We are continually learning new ways to improve education and provide every student in Middle Tennessee with an opportunity to reach their full potential. We’ve compiled key resources to help inform this conversation and spur action. Explore the data and read more about what we are learning from our work with education reformers across the state and country.

SCHOLARSHIPS

The I-2 Scholarship
The Scarlett Family Foundation’s I-2 Scholarship is available for eligible students. This award is supplemental to your current award to cover costs associated with internships, interim course work, and special programs. The link to apply will be emailed to eligible students.

CONTACT SCARLETT FAMILY FOUNDATION:

Address:
4117 Hillsboro Pike | Suite 103255
Nashville, TN 37215-2728
Phone: (615) 777-3750