JOHN H. McCONNELL

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

McConnell The Columbus Blue Jackets in partnership with the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation, have established the John H. McConnell Scholarship Fund in honor of the team’s founder.
GRANT APPLICATION

Grant Application

The Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation monetary grants are awarded annually at the end of each Blue Jackets hockey season. Any non-profit organization may apply for a grant, however, the Board of Directors will give those organizations with a focus of pediatric cancer, education, the health and safety of today’s youth and the development of youth and amateur hockey priority.

The basic criteria for the grants are as follows:

  • Foundation grants range in value at the discretion of the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation Board of Directors
  • The Blue Jackets Foundation Board of Directors meets yearly (in March) to review grant applications for funding and distributes all grants at the end of the Blue Jackets season
  • Any organization applying for a grant must be a 501 (c)(3) serving the Central Ohio and/or Ohio area
  • Non-profit organizations requesting funding for a specific project are more likely to be awarded funding
  • The Foundation is not able to consider the following grant requests for approval
  • Individual/personal support
  • One time events Fundraising events (e.g. golf outings, school events) 
  • Political events and campaigns
  • Religiously affiliated events, campaigns, or organizations
  • Ethnic organizations
  • Labor groups
  • Staffing
  • Endowments and capital campaigns
  • Any request seeking financial support for the purpose of debt retirement
  • Programs outside the geographic markets we serve
  • Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, age or religion

View Grant Application 

Grant Applications Deadline: March 1 (in office)

Mail to:

Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation
200 W. Nationwide Blvd
Columbus, OH 43215
Drop off: business hours 9am-5pm (Monday-Friday)

Hard copy required - faxes and emails not accepted

How to get here:
- Enter through the Box office doors (on the corner of Nationwide and McConnell)
- Immediately to your right through the double doors will be a security desk
- Tell them that you are there to go to the offices on the Suite Level
- Security will direct you to the elevators. Take the elevators to your left up to the Suite Level
- There will be double glass doors through which there is a front desk