Local and National Scholarships

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2025 Legacy Awards

For the 2025 contest, any child or grandchild (or step-child, step-

grandchild, or legal ward) of a living Elk who joined the Order on or before April 1, 2022, or a charter member of a Lodge that was instituted on or after April 1, 2022, is eligible to apply. 

The Elk must also be a paid-up member through March 31, 2025. Great-grandchildren are not

eligible. The applicant must apply online only. The 2025 Legacy Awards application deadline has passed.

The Gunther & Lee Weigel Medical School

These are offered to Elks scholars entering their first year of medical school.

The scholarship was established through the generosity of the late Lee Weigel, widow of Gunther Weigel. The number of scholarships offered and amounts vary from year to year. 

**Please note,

this award is only open to current and former scholarship recipients of the Elks National Foundation. Winners of local Lodge scholarships and State Elks Association scholarships are not eligible for this program. If you are an Elks scholar planning to attend an accredited U.S. medical

school to pursue a medical degree or Osteopathic Medicine degree, consider applying before you begin your first year of medical school. Applications open in January. Request an application from the ENF Scholarship office by emailing scholarship@elks.org or calling (773) 755-4732.

2025 Most Valuable Student 

The Elks National Foundation will award 500 four-year scholarships to the highest-rated applicants in the 2025 competition. 

Ranging from $1,000 per year to $7,500 per year, Most Valuable Student scholarships are for students pursuing a four-year degree, on a full-time basis (minimum of 12 semester hours), in a U.S. college or university.

The application deadline for the 2025 contest is now closed

Emergency Educational Grants

 This provides undergraduate college financial assistance to children of deceased or totally disabled Elks in the form of renewable, one-year grants of up to $5,000. The grant is for educational assistance only and is not intended to cover the entire cost of a college education. 

The application deadline for this scholarship has passed.

 This year the NLR Elks raised almost $10,000 dollars for annually renewable scholarship that were awarded to 14 local students.

Over the past 10 years, the NLR Elks #1004 has presented over 150 scholarships that totaled over $100,000.

Our local scholarship program awards scholarships annually based on community service, leadership, academic achievements and need.

 The application period for our lodge scholarships is now closed for 2025.

The ASEA Merrit-Wentz scholarship contest awards one-year, $2,500 scholarships to Elk members, spouses of Elk Members, and children and grandchildren of Elk members who are college juniors and seniors at an accredited four-year American college or university. The qualifying Elk must be a member of an Arkansas Lodge.

The application period for the Wentz Scholarship for the 2025-2026 academic year is now open!