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Meet the Sunflower Initiative’s 2020 Fitzgerald Scholar!

The Sunflower Initiative is pleased to award the 2020 Harriet Fitzgerald Scholarship to Alena Rooney of Chicago, Illinois (more...).

Women's colleges are not only relevant, they are critical for the development of women leaders in all fields.

Women's colleges provide a challenging, supportive, developmentally powerful learning environment.

Where women are more engaged, they hold more leadership positions and develop higher critical thinking skills than their peers at co-educational institutions

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The Sunflower Initiative is a non-profit organization founded by women who have so valued their woman’s college experience that they want to help provide that opportunity for other women. Its mission is to provide scholarships to young women who realize that women’s colleges provide an education superior in many ways to that provided by coed institutions.

The Sunflower Initiative is a non-profit organization founded by women who have so valued their woman’s college experience that they want to help provide that opportunity for other women. Its mission is to provide scholarships to young women who realize that women’s colleges provide an education superior in many ways to that provided by coed institutions.

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