Scholarships
Amount: $2,000-$3,000. About: The Norma Ross Walter Scholarship is an annual prize awarded to female graduates of Nebraska high schools who intend to study English in college. Applicants must be female high school seniors on track to enroll as English majors at accredited colleges or universities. Winners are determined by intellectual promise, creativity, and character…
Amount: $5,000. About: The Garden Club of America’s Coastal Wetland Studies Award is an annual prize awarded to graduate students studying coastal wetlands in the United States. Each year, one student is awarded $5,000 to go towards field-based wetlands research. Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program at a U.S. university, be doing field-based…
Amount: $500-$4,000. About: The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest trade union of public employees in the United States, offers a scholarship for current and retired participating members from the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada, and their spouses and dependent children. Applicants are…
Amount: Varies. About: Established in 1987, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is a nonprofit organization that exclusively supports the Black college community, with 98 percent of its awards going to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs). Each year, the organization awards nearly 500 scholarships to high-achieving students who plan…
Amount: Up to $5,000. About: The Surety Foundation intern and scholarship program gives underrepresented students studying insurance/risk management, accounting, economics, or business/finance the opportunity to work paid professional internships with member organizations and receive scholarship money after completion. Each applicant must be a U.S. citizen, be an underrepresented student, have completed at least their sophomore…
Amount: Up to $80,000 maximum over 4 years. About: Dream.US, a nonprofit organization, created its Opportunity Scholarship to help undocumented students who live in “locked-out states,” meaning states where students “effectively have no access to college – either because they face paying out-of-state tuition or because their state will simply not admit them into its…