Building Careers. Strengthening Banks. Investing In Your Future.
Great community banks are built by great community bankers.
The PACB Foundation invests in the people who make community banking work. Through scholarships, the Foundation helps employees of PACB member banks pursue professional development opportunities that build their skills, advance their careers and help them better serve their customers and communities.
From the teller line to the boardroom, we believe every banker should have the opportunity to learn, grow and lead.
That is why the PACB Foundation helps make professional development more accessible to employees throughout our member banks. A scholarship is more than financial assistance to attend a program. It is an investment in a banker’s potential, and in the future of the institution that banker serves.
The Foundation is also one of the ways PACB membership invests back into our members. Banks invest in PACB, and together we invest in their people, helping develop stronger professionals, future leaders and the talent community banks need to remain strong and independent.
Better bankers build stronger banks. Stronger banks better serve their customers. Stronger community banks build stronger communities.
That is how the PACB Foundation advances our mission to empower community banks to positively impact the communities they serve.
Your PACB Membership Invests in Your People
PACB Foundation scholarships are available to help employees of member banks pursue meaningful education and professional development throughout their careers.
Whether someone is building foundational skills, preparing for greater responsibility, developing as a leader or pursuing advanced banking education, the Foundation is there to help.
Build your skills. Advance your career. Better serve your bank and your customers.
From the teller line to the boardroom, PACB is invested in your future.
The PACB Foundation Board of Directors is making scholarships available to PACB community bank members for the purchase of Association-sponsored virtual and classroom educational and professional development programs.
Scholarships were created to:
Scholarship Details and Eligibility
Applying for a PACB Foundation Educational Scholarship is a streamlined process that allows PACB members to quickly and efficiently acquire scholarships for the bank’s team.
Scholarship Details:
Steps to Apply
- Increase the use and awareness of PACB’s expansive educational offerings and allow member banks to expand the professional development of their teams;
- Provide additional opportunities to introduce new bankers to PACB educational offerings in order to improve engagement and support for community banking issues;
- Offer ongoing support of PACB education designed to engage the next generation of community bank leaders, which gives banks an opportunity to retain, grow and develop talent.
- For more information, please view the Foundation Scholarship Information Flyer
- To review the scholarship application information needed: PACB Foundation Scholarship Application
Scholarship Details and Eligibility
Applying for a PACB Foundation Educational Scholarship is a streamlined process that allows PACB members to quickly and efficiently acquire scholarships for the bank’s team.
Scholarship Details:
- Awarded based on the appropriateness of the educational opportunity related to the applicant’s job.
- Subject to availability.
- Designed to cover the registration cost and materials for not more than two employees per institution for specific educational programs
- Individual bank employees are eligible to receive one scholarship per calendar year.
- Eligibility is limited to employees of member banks who already have purchased at least one seat to attend the same training program.
- The training director or the HR lead for the institution must submit the scholar-ship application no later than 5 days prior to the scheduled training
- Scholarship applications should be submitted for each individual requesting the award.
Steps to Apply
- Visit www.pacb.org and review the education calendar.
- Register for a virtual or classroom seminar or conference.
- Identify one or two other colleagues that may benefit from the program, based on the applicability of the curriculum to their role with the bank, and utilize the scholarship link on the program registration page at www.pacb.org
- The scholarship link will take the individual managing the scholarship application to a special registration page where they will complete the simple and short application, and submit it to PACB for consideration.
- Once the application is processed and approved, a confirmation email will be sent to the applicant, along with documentation regarding the scholarship awarded.
The PACB Foundation has added a special scholarship to support community bank employees attending the Barret Graduate School of Banking. This action aligns with the strategic goal to ensure the sustainability of the community banking industry, now and for generations to come.
The Thomas Bailey Memorial Scholarship was created in honor of the late Tom Bailey, longtime president and CEO of Brentwood Bank, who believed in PACB as much as he believed in the community banking industry. Tom truly recognized the importance of raising the level of education to ensure the industry’s sustainability.
To apply, please click here.
The Thomas Bailey Memorial Scholarship was created in honor of the late Tom Bailey, longtime president and CEO of Brentwood Bank, who believed in PACB as much as he believed in the community banking industry. Tom truly recognized the importance of raising the level of education to ensure the industry’s sustainability.
To apply, please click here.
