• Early Sprouts Garden Nutrition Program
  This program will engage the Colleg's Child Development Center (CDC) children and our College students in a unique learning setting involving a gargen project. The children will cultivate vegetables in raised garden beds in the CDC playground, learning and sampling a variety of the vegetables they grow. Gardening has a positive inpact on the impressionable lives of children. Research demonstrates when children cultivate school-based gardens they recognize more vegetables, enjoy eating more vegetables and choose vegetables more frequently over less healthly choices. Consuming a life-long diet rich in vegetables plays a key role in combating obesity and other chronic diseases.

• Kalich Family Outstanding Nutrition Student Award Endowment
  This endowment award was created by Judy and Richard Kalich out of respect for the College's Nutrition program and to provide awareness of the excellence in the Health Sciences. Consideration shall be given to junior or senior majoring in Health Sciences with a Nutrition option, have a minimum 3.2 GPA, display devotion to community service and who represent the Nutrition program with distinction and pride. Demonstrated need is not a criterion.

• Anita Rawchuck Nestor '52 Nutrition Scholarship Endowment
  This endowment was created by Anita, a 1952 graduate of Keene Teachers College, a Home Economics Major, whose undergraduate years were filled with school and job responsibilities. She created this endowment to enable students to more fully participate in campus life. The purpose of this endowment is to provide recognition and financial assistance to students who are enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nutrition program, an option of the Health Sciences at KSC.

• Community Service Nutrition Scholarship Endowment
  The purpose of this scholarship shall be to provide recognition and financial assistance to Health Science / Nutrition Option majors and shall be presented at the Spring Honor's Convocation. Consideration for this scholarship shall be given to full time students who have a minimum GPA of 3.0, have demonstrated commitment to community service, and show a pattern of engaging in a life long pursuit of professional development. Students who are pursuing a second degree in Health Science with Nutrition Option are also eligible.

• Suzan Schafer Meiszner Endowed Fund for Early Sprouts
  The purpose of this endowment is to provide funding for continued research through, and expansion of, the program known as Early Sprouts: Gardening and Nutrition Experiences for the Young Child. Dr. Suzan Schafer Meiszner believed that a college's mission should be expanded to reach out to students of any age. With that vision, she developed several educational programs for children. She started a gifted and talented program for middle school children at Texas Tech University, as well as summer programs at Pittsburg State University and at Daniel Webster College for various pre-college age students. The Early Sprouts program is another example of the non-traditional educational programs that Suzan loved to support. She worked to develop funding sources to create and sustain the Early Sprouts program and believed in it to the point of creating an endowment to provide long term support for the program.

• Science Academic Program
  The purpose of this fund is to provide discretionary income to support academic initiatives and programs that advance the Sciences at Keene State College through guest speakers, workshops or other initiatives that promote academic excellence.

Alphabetical Listing of restricted funds
Restricted funds by category