Scholarship fund CIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND is a nonprofit corporation (Federal Tax ID is #20-0332093) established to provide scholarship aid to disadvantaged students in the study of Information Technology and/or Computer Science. In addition to donations from the CIO Forums, the fund is supported by private donations and the proceeds from two books written by executive volunteers, "The Executive Guide to Information Security: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions(ISBN 0-32-130451-9)-- by Mark Egan and Tim Mather,	and CIO Wisdom: Best Practices from Silicon Valley(ISBN 0-13-141115-2) -- by Dean Lane and 20 authors who are part of the IT executive source pool for CIO Forums. Ohio State University (OSU) has been approved to receive scholarship grants. Last year three IT students were approved for grants totaling $9,000.