Less than a year after his death, Adam Garapic’s friends at Wright State are organizing a three-day fundraising event to endow a scholarship in his name.
Adam Garapic loved role-playing games, Star Wars, heavy metal, Cleveland sports teams and hanging out with his friends. Despite his disability, the word “can’t” was not in his vocabulary.
Wright State […]

A $50,000 endowed scholarship has been created at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Shidler College of Business by local businessman and alumnus Leonard Kamp.
A $25,000 donation was matched with funds from real estate entrepreneur Jay Shidler’s $25 million gift to the business college.
The fund will be used to provide business scholarships for undergraduate […]

The State Government should immediately announce the matching grant for pre-matriculation scholarship for minorities, S. Sathik, general secretary, Organisation of Muslim Educational Institutions and Associations in Tamil Nadu (OMEIAT), said on Saturday.
Dr. Sathik, former Vice-Chancellor of Madras University , said that if the Government did not make the announcement before the end of this fiscal, […]

A grant initiative will double the dollars donated to the Southwestern Illinois College Foundation until 2012.
The Title III grant initiative is part of a Strengthening Institutions Program grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Funds contribued to the college foundation now through 2012 will be matched dollar for dollar by the grant.
“This is the […]

Through a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, a Kansas community college has expanded its nursing program, the Dodge City Daily Globe reported.
The Kansas Department of Labor estimates that by 2012, job openings in southwest Kansas will increase by 21.6% for LPNs and 27.5% for RNs.
The three-year grant is helping Dodge City […]

PreK-12 educators will be awarded $1 million in grants and scholarships through the 2008 A+ for Energy program, which recognizes innovative energy education programs in the classroom. Awardees will receive a cash grant of $5,000 or $10,000 to implement their program, a full scholarship to attend a three-day Energy Educator Training Conference, and a Science […]

Seeds of success have been sown for Gisborne student Mark Geuze with a tertiary Eastwoodhill Arboretum Scholarship to help cultivate a chosen career path in horticulture.
After his time as dux at Lytton High School in 2006, Mark embarked on horticulture studies.
The 18-year-old is about to start his second year of a bachelor of science degree […]

Rockwell Elementary School’s primary function is to educate elementary age students, but it also has a program to help college students.
The school started to raise money for a college scholarship program in 1997. It was decided that students who completed fifth grade at Rockwell Elementary would be eligible to apply. Awarding the scholarship had to […]

Financial assistance is available for young cancer survivors through the American Cancer Society.
The “Cancer Survivor College Scholarship Program” provides financial assistance for young cancer survivors as they pursue their post-secondary education. The possible lifetime award is up to $10,000 per student, offered in increments of $2,500 per academic year.
Applications from qualified Oregon students are being […]

Career Education Corporation announced today that Colorado Technical University Online (CTU Online), in partnership with Helping Our Heroes Foundation, will be awarding full scholarships to as many as 25 United States service men and women at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Applications are now being accepted for the Wounded Warrior Scholarship, a one-time scholarship program, […]