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Scholarships
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Purple Heart Scholarship Fund
Amount: $1,000-$5,000. About: Each year, the Purple Heart Scholarship Fund awards scholarships to college-bound soldiers who’ve been awarded the Purple Heart. Applicants must be high school graduates or have successfully completed a GED program, be accepted to or enrolled as full-time undergraduate students at an accredited college, university, or trade school at the time the
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Palumbo Family Foundation Scholarship
Amount: Up to $11,000. About: The Palumbo Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Chicagoland, annually awards scholarships to local students. Scholarships are open to high school seniors, students with GED diplomas, undergraduate college students, and students at vocational or trade schools. Applicants must meet a minimum 3.0 GPA requirement, come from a family with an
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NMFA Military Spouse Scholarships
Amount: Up to $2,500. About: Offered by the National Military Family Association (NMFA), the NFMA Military Spouse Scholarships are one-time/year awards averaging between $500 – $2,500 meant for spouses of all 8 Uniformed Services – Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), and
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Mike Rowe Scholarship
Amount: Varies. About: Mike Rowe, who served as an apprentice on the TV series “Dirty Jobs,” created the Work Ethic Scholarship Program to promote skilled labor. Awarded through his mikeroweWORKS Foundation, the scholarships are intended to encourage students to learn a useful skill. In 2022, the foundation awarded a total of $1.5 million in work
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Fire Family Foundation Scholarships
Amount: $5,000. About: Firefighters First Credit Union is proud to support the brave families of firefighters by offering a $5,000 scholarship to 10 students of firefighters. Applicants must be the biological or adopted child of any active, retired or fallen firefighter within the United States; be a Firefighters First Credit Union Member; be a senior
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Family Fellowship Scholarship Program
Amount: Up to $12,000 per year (for up to 5 years). About: Offered by nonprofit Together We Rise, in partnership with the Fund II Foundation, the Family Fellowship Scholarship s intended to help propel foster care youth into higher education. Applicants need to be U.S. citizens between the ages of 17 and 23 and been