In 2018, the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation celebrated 100 years of assisting area students to continue their education. It was started as a stipend program created by prominent citizens who were concerned about the number of promising students of working age who were leaving school for economic reasons. The Scholarship Committee was formed and was composed of guidance counselors, members of the staff of the Vocational Bureau, and “instructed women from the community at large”. Stipends were granted to students who were “gifted”, based on their IQ and lived in “disadvantaged areas”. Mrs. William Semple was the first Chairperson of the Scholarship Committee and her tenure would last 34 years. In 1946, The Scholarship Committee was incorporated in the State of Ohio as the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation to be overseen by a volunteer Board of Trustees. In 1952, Mrs. Irvin Westheimer succeeded Mrs. Semple as Board Chairperson. Yvonne Crittendon (Mrs. Oscar Robertson) would be awarded a PTA Scholarship to attend the University of Cincinnati. This began the college scholarship program, expanding its mission to close the gap to pay for a college education. In 1962, The CSF begins its endowment with a bequest from Mrs. Rebecca Van Ham Dale. The Board of Trustees approves funding for full-time clerical support in 1967. The following year, the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation celebrated its golden anniversary with a banquet.