Scholarship Fund/Silent Auction

The TORCH Foundation has developed a scholarship fund to support promising individuals who aspire to make a difference in rural healthcare and for hospital staff who desire to improve their job performance through continuing education. Scholarships and stipend opportunities include:

• Texas MHA Scholarships
• Rural Healthcare Internship Stipends
• Continuing Education Stipends

Financial support for the TORCH Foundation Scholarship Fund is generated from events like the TORCH Foundation Silent Auction and other sponsorship opportunities. Please contact Quang Ngo at: quang.ngo@torchnet.org to learn more!

Our first Silent Auction, held last year at the TORCH Annual Conference, was a success and allowed us to award four education scholarships and stipends to promising students and rural hospital staff. We hope that this year’s Silent Auction will be even better and will help us expand the TORCH Foundation Scholarship program. Our goal is to provide even more scholarship and stipend opportunities in 2010!

We are now accepting donations for the 2010 TORCH Foundation Silent Auction. We invite you to participate and make a donation. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your support and receive special recognition among our members through this exciting event. We count on your support to make this event successful! Then, join us at the Hotel Inter-Continental at the 2010 TORCH Annual Conference to bid and bid often! The winners will be announced Thursday, April 15th during the evening reception. Please see this form for donation instructions.

This is an important program and we encourage you to participate in its growth!

• 2010 Silent Auction Form [download pdf]

The Foundation is pleased to announce that four individuals have been awarded scholarships and stipends for 2009! The purpose of these scholarship opportunities is to support promising individuals who aspire to make a difference in rural healthcare and hospital staff who desire to improve their job performance through continuing education. These awards were made possible by the generous donations and participation in our first Silent Auction held last year during the TORCH Annual Conference. The 2009 recipients are:

Texas MHA Scholarship
Amy Lawler, Texas A&M University

Rural Healthcare Internship Stipend
Matthew Wylie, Summer Internship at Uvalde Memorial Hospital

Continuing Education Stipends
Larry Price, Assistant Administrator, Limestone Medical Center Helen Ann Dodson, Assisted Manager, D.M. Cogdell Memorial Hospital

These scholarship recipients will be formally recognized in April 2010 at the TORCH Annual Conference 20th Anniversary Celebration Dinner. We are proud of their achievements and applaud their dedication to rural healthcare. Congratulations to all!