To advance education by providing scholarship support for African-American graduating seniors of Glenville High School.

To help persons with an entrepreneurial spirit, at any age, attend (on a full-time basis) a college or university that is authorized to provide full credit toward a bachelor's or higher degree. Must be a resident of Cuyahoga, Lorain, Lake, or Geauga county and preference will be given to ROTC program cadets whose service leads to a commission in the United States armed forces.

The Charles Hildreth Kelso Scholarship will allocate two scholarships to a deserving African American graduating senior student from Glenville High School and Collinwood High School, both in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, with a 2.5 Grade Point Average or better, who intends to go on to college and major in education.

This fund was established by a transfer of the Educational Trust of the Inner City Protestant Parish to the Cleveland Foundation to provide scholarship support to enable deserving individuals who are residents of Cleveland or its inner-ring suburbs to further and/or complete their formal education. Currently, the beneficiary pool is identified as high school seniors and adults to the age of 28, who are pursuing an undergraduate college degree, or vocational/technical training. Applicants with financial need and grade-point averages between 2.0 and 3.3 on a 4.0 grade scale are given preference.