Scholarships
Amount: $1,500-$5,000. About: The Women Marines Association annually awards a range of scholarships to eligible students. Applicants need to be sponsored by a Women Marines Association member. They must have served or be serving in the Marine Corps or Reserve, be a direct descendant, sibling or descendant of a sibling of a member of the…
Amount: Full tuition and housing. About: Offered by the Western Golf Association Evans Scholars Foundation, the Evans Scholarship Program covers full tuition and housing for college for high-achieving caddies with limited financial means. To qualify, applicants must be high school seniors or college freshmen, have a strong caddie record, have completed high school junior year…
Amount: $5,000. About: Watson-Brown Foundation Scholarships are annual awards meant to provide need-based and merit-based aid to undergraduate students in Georgia and South Carolina. Applicants must be residents of one of 18 Georgia and South Carolina counties, and must be a college-bound high school senior or current undergraduate student at a 4-year, regionally-accredited, non-profit colleges…
Amount: $15,000. About: Each year, the Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship is awarded to a graduate student to support research for a paper on an aspect of wilderness. Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited graduate institution in North America, have strong academic records, and have “academic and/or career goals focused on making a significant…
Amount: $1,000-$5,000. About: The Veteran of Foreign Wars offers the Scout of the Year Scholarship to Scouts who are registered, active members of the Boy Scouts of America or the Girl Scouts of America. The scholarship is awarded to standout scouts who display leadership, patriotism, and love of country. To qualify, applicants must be the…
Amount: $30,000. About: Each year, the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) runs its Voice of Democracy Program, which gives high school students the opportunity to compete for scholarship money by recording democratic and patriotic-themed audio essays. The contest is open to students in grades 9-12 enrolled in public, private, parochial school, or home study program…