The mission of the Penn State Alumni Association is to connect alumni to the University and to each other, to provide valued services to members, and to support the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service. In this mission, we are constantly looking for ways we can support, interact, network and provide fellowship to our alumni, families, friends and our students. From the Central Florida Chapter’s inception in 1996, our leaders have worked hard to carry out this mission. We put together events that bring a little bit of Happy Valley to central Florida while finding ways to serve those within our community. Understanding the financial hardships that can come from being an out-of-state student, our chapter developed a scholarship program to reduce the burden on our local Penn State undergraduates who attend on of the 20+ campuses. With many of the challenges we have faced during the 2020 calendar year, it became evident that our approach to supporting our students through our scholarship program needed to change. To ensure that we will continue to support local Penn State students well into the future, we needed to establish a scholarship endowment that we can contribute to which would help us create the strong financial foundation moving forward.