Visiting students in a Nicaraguan high school gave Mark Harsen a new appreciation for the significance of an education.
Harsen works at Missouri State University in Springfield and sees how higher education can change the lives of young people, but he knows that in rural Nicaragua, just getting a high school education can mean a chance […]

Martin Scharf has been fortunate in his life, in many ways. Foremost, he is a highly successful New York real estate manager. In harness racing, he was blessed with 2000 Horse of the Year Gallo Blue Chip.
Three years ago, Scharf established a scholarship to honor his champion pacer and on Saturday night, he will present […]

KANSAS STATE: Local and area students at Kansas State University have been named academic scholarship recipients for the 2007-08 school year.
Saline County
Salina: Lisa Mercurio, $1,380 Henry T. Ward Memorial Chemical Engineering Scholarship, $4,000 Dow Chemical Company Foundation Scholars for the Kansas State University Multicultural Engineering Program, $2,355 Tim and Sharon Taylor Family Scholarship and $765 […]

Inspector General of Police Punjab, Ahmad Nasim has increased the amount of education scholarship for the children of martyrs, retired and serving police officials so that their financial burden could be reduced.
The decision was taken in a special meeting chaired by IGP held on Wednesday to review different matters regarding welfare of police officials. The […]

The Carroll S. and Velma M. Hockman Endowed Scholarship has been added to the Lord Fairfax Community College Educational Foundation Inc.’s list of financial assistance available for qualified students at the school.
The scholarship was established by the Hockmans as part of their estate, after Mrs. Hockman died last December.
She was the first member of her […]

Kyrasandra Davis of Pendleton has accepted the Frances Winship Walters Scholarship for $40,000 over four years at Agnes Scott College, an independent national liberal arts and sciences college for women in Decatur, Ga.
Kyrasandra is the daughter of Jack and Cheryl Davis of Pendleton.
Those selected for this award have excelled in the classroom and in leadership, […]

The Czech Heritage Society of Texas is accepting applications for the Victor Peter Memorial Scholarship. The $500 stipend was established in memory of the late Victor Alfons Peter, who died in 1996. Peter was a retired businessman and a trustee of the Czech Heritage Society. Following the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he […]

The Bechtel Group Foundation has pledged $5,000 to help support the Next Generation Scholarship Fund, which provides academic scholarships to high school seniors who plan to pursue an engineering course of study in college leading to a career in the power generation industry.
The scholarship fund is beginning its second year and Bechtel has been a […]

Scholarships to attend Foundation Center proposal writing courses are available now through May 2008 for under-resourced nonprofits working in the areas of literacy and domestic violence. Sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon, this initiative aims to assist small, community-based organizations in building their internal capacity to seek financial support from foundations, […]

Angul, Oct. 31: In order to build up a strong goodwill among the land oustees the authorities of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) have decided to give Rs 1,500 per month as scholarship to youths undergoing ITI training at Jindal Institute of Technology and Skills (JITS) here. This scholarship has been mooted by the […]