Name: Evening of Promise
Start: 2025-11-06T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-06T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Hamilton's 110

The Jacksonville Promise scholarship program is hosting its annual EVENING OF PROMISE fundraising gala and auction at Hamilton's in Jacksonville on THURSDAY, November 6, 2025, 6 pm.

Tickets are $50 per person or $350 for a table of eight. Ticket price includes buffet dinner and a cash bar will be available.
(Table and website recognition for sponsoring event)
Table sponsor $500
Gold event sponsor $2500
Silver event sponsor $1000
Bronze event sponsor $300

There will be a wine bottle pull, as well as live and silent auction. Piano entertainment by Tim Chipman and testimonials from current and former students will round out the evening. Watch this site for auction items including items you can start bidding for online NOW - watch our event for more details!

You can call Lynne Sheaff at 217-670-9371 to reserve your tickets; walk-in attendance is also welcomed. We welcome everyone who is interested in promoting education in Jacksonville and promoting economic growth of our community!

About the JACKSONVILLE PROMISE:

The Jacksonville Promise just awarded 58 scholarships this fall of up to $14,000 over the next 8 semesters. This is our 10th year of offering scholarships and we have now given a total of 350 scholarships. As our funding has grown, we have expanded our benefits—more semesters, more money, more geographic area of coverage. This has created an economic engine for Jacksonville that expands the economy, and each year adds many tens of thousands of dollars to the coffers of the City of Jacksonville , Morgan County & all of the towns in Morgan County. It strengthens our schools and helps our students' budgets.
The Jacksonville Promise is a place-based scholarship available to any public, private or home school graduates that attended school in the geographic boundaries of Jacksonville, Franklin, Meredosia-Chambersburg, Triopia, and Waverly school districts. They must have graduated within the last six years and are now starting college to be eligible for this place-based scholarship. Public, private and home-schooled students are eligible. Students must plan to attend Illinois College or Lincoln Land Community College in Jacksonville.

Two colleges are available for higher education in Jacksonville: Illinois College and Lincoln Land Community College.

For further details write to [email protected]. or visit www.jacksonvillepromise.org