XII
Chi Iota Iota Scholarship Fund
XII Fund
501(c)(3) · Est. 2008 · Columbia SC
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Our Mission

Turning acceptance letters into graduation walks.

The fund exists to ensure that a financial gap never ends a college degree. Scholarship dollars, transition support, and a steady community pairing — delivered in the weeks that actually determine whether a semester becomes a degree.

Live Impact Feed

Momentum you can measure.

Every entry is a real donation, a real student milestone, or a real outcome — continuously updated from the Legacy Ledger.

Brothers Circle funded Spring Book Grants

$3,500 allocated to 7 scholars for books, lab fees, and academic materials — disbursed within five business days of spring drop-add.

Arianna J. earned Dean's List honors

3.7 GPA at USC while leading a first-generation mentorship cohort with 88% sophomore-year retention.

First internship placement from the 2024 cohort

Scholarship support converted into a paid engineering internship — a two-generation income jump in one summer.

Community sponsors closed the semester gap

Three local sponsors covered remaining tuition for two graduating seniors. Neither scholar knew who made the call.

Monthly Legacy tier crosses recurring milestone

Steward, Builder, and Keeper donors now underwrite the year-one operating scholarship budget.

Two 2023 scholars accepted to graduate programs

One entering MSW, one entering dual JD/MBA. XII application-support funding cited in both cases.

Why This Matters

The gap between accepted and graduated.

Nationally, low-income students who begin college graduate at roughly half the rate of their wealthier peers — not for lack of talent but because a single unexpected cost can end a degree. In the Midlands, that cost is sometimes as small as a textbook or a lab fee.

We exist to close that line-item gap. Books. Fees. Housing deposits. The laptop that crashed the week before finals. The emergency flight home. The tuition balance a merit aid letter didn't quite cover.

Every scholar we fund could have been lost to a $400 problem. None of them were. That is the entire business model — and it is why recurring support matters more than any single event.

"We are not a scholarship fund. We are a community that decided no Midlands student with an acceptance letter should have to choose between a textbook and a tank of gas."

— XII Board statement · 2026

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Every new line on the Impact Feed started with a donor deciding to show up.

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