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Lawrence M. Coss, founder and former CEO of Conseco Finance Corp., established a scholarship fund at The Saint Paul Foundation in 1995 to help finance the postsecondary education of Conseco employees and their dependent children. Following the sale of the company in 2003, The Coss Family Foundation Scholarship Fund was redirected to benefit students graduating from high schools located in Dakota and Ramsey counties in Minnesota, and Buffalo, Hand, Hyde, Meade, and Pennington counties in South Dakota.

The Saint Paul Foundation is the community foundation for Saint Paul and surrounding areas. It connects and supports donors, nonprofits and partners to enrich lives and communities through philanthropy. Since 1940, The Saint Paul Foundation has granted more than $400 million to nonprofit organizations contributing to the health and vitality of the community. In 2006, the Foundation approved grants and operated special projects totaling more than $36.9 million, including more than $650,000 in scholarship awards. For more information, visit www.saintpaulfoundation.org.

The program is closed at this time. You may return to this site January 1, 2009 to access the program guidelines and application form for the 2009 program.

Applications for the Coss Family Foundation Scholarship Fund are administered by Scholarship Management Services®, a division of Scholarship America®. Scholarship Management Services is the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarship and tuition reimbursement programs for corporations, foundations, associations and individuals.


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