BTB Foundation

The BTB Foundation began in 2002 by Tom and Bill Latourette. The mission of the BTB Foundation is to award financial assistance as well as provide emotional support to individuals from the Chicagoland area that experience hardships due to cancer or a cancer-related illness. To bring this into perspective, over the past 23 years, the BTB Foundation has given over 1.7 million dollars to 110 local families fighting cancer. In 2018, the foundation announced the creation of the Vincent J. Vittore Memorial Scholarship. Vince passed away in 2017 from a Glioblastoma brain tumor. This scholarship is in honor of the enthusiasm, humor and strength that Vince displayed during his life,
for his love for family, friends and great journalism.

The Vincent J. Vittore Memorial Scholarship will award two $5,000 scholarships for academic year 2025-2026.

Eligibility:

• US Citizen between the ages of 17 and 30
• Reside in the Chicago metropolitan area (Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry or Will county)
• Applicants must be a cancer patient, cancer survivor or has an immediate family member that is a cancer patient, cancer survivor or has passed away due to cancer. “Immediate Family” is defined as Mother, Father, Brother or Sister.
• Applicants must plan to enroll as a full-time student (minimum 12 semester hours) in pursuit of a certificate or undergraduate degree at an accredited 2 or 4 year College/University for the 2025-2026 academic year. Special consideration will be given to those pursuing a journalism degree.

Scholarship applications are being accepted now through April 15, 2025 via the BTB Foundation website —> http://www.btbfoundation.org/

The link to the application website is —> http://www.btbfoundation.org/2025-scholarship-application.html