The Margaret Yardley Fellowship Fund was established in 1930 to provide fellowship grants to deserving women who are New Jersey residents pursuing advanced postgraduate studies at the school of their choice.
The first contribution to the fund in 1930 was $5,000, given by Farnham Yardley in memory of his mother, Margaret Yardley, the first President of NJSFWC. Since then, NJSFWC has awarded between six and eight $1,000 fellowship grants annually to deserving women.
Information regarding this fellowship fund, including application forms, is distributed to New Jersey universities, state colleges, independent four-year colleges, and graduate departments at Harvard University and New York University.
Considerations used in evaluating applicants include:
- Scholastic achievement
- Career service potential
- Charitable endeavors
The grant is applied solely to tuition expenses. If you know of a young woman who may be eligible for this grant, applications are available below.
The deadline for all application materials to be received by the committee at Headquarters is March 1.
About Margaret Yardley
Margaret Tufts Yardley served as the first President of NJSFWC from 1894–1896. She was a member of the Woman’s Club of Orange, the oldest club in New Jersey.
Margaret served as both director and president of the Orange Orphans Society, helped establish the first homeopathic hospital in the Oranges, pioneered improvements to New Jersey’s child labor laws, and remained active in political work in East Orange well into her eighties. She also founded the Essex County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.