Kern Community Foundation’s Oscar and Libbie Rudnick Scholarship Fund began in 2012 with a $500,000 gift in memory of Elynor Rudnick Falk by her husband Dr. David Falk. Recently, after Dr. Falk’s passing, the foundation received a $5,500,000 gift for the Fund to be used for scholarships.

The Fund honors the memory of Oscar and Libbie Rudnick, the parents of Elynor Rudnick Falk. They immigrated to the United States of America to escape persecution and oppression in Czarist Russia. Settling in Kern County, they raised a family and established a successful agribusiness industry.

“This gift is an eternal mitzvah,” says Aaron Falk, President & CEO of Kern Community Foundation. “The Oscar and Libbie Rudnick Scholarship Fund has established an everlasting bond between the Rudnicks and the future of Kern County.”

Kern Community Foundation manages over three dozen scholarship funds. For more information and access to all of the scholarship resources through one simple application, please visit www.kernfoundation.org.