A group of Kamiak graduates have announced the formation of a new non-profit organization called the “Robster Craws Fund.”
The Robster Craws are a group of five Kamiak 2005 Graduates (Sam Wrzeszcz, Jeff Jones, Steven Huang, James Chin, and Keisuke Natsume) who were all members of the same Knowledge Bowl team at Kamiak.
By their senior year […]

A junior Cal State Long Beach student is one of 11 students selected from across the nation to receive a $5,000 scholarship from the 2007 United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Google Scholarship Program.
Tanisha Washington, a management information systems major originally from small-town Indiana, plans to use her award to help pay for school expenses […]

In the spirit of the Alfond College Challenge announced on December 11, 2007, Bridgton Academy, of North Bridgton, Maine, will grant a $2,000 scholarship to every young man who is born in Maine, who graduates from a Maine high school, and who applies and meets the Academy’s admission requirements. Named the BA for ME […]

Ogrant, a name that sooner brings the weedy horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale to mind than collaboration-oriented student loans, has chosen the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network to improve its media applications process.
Toronto-based Ogrant is a collective of grant-providing entities that enables students to apply for grants and scholarships by letting them turn in videos and […]

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 […]

Earning a college degree is an important and increasingly necessary stop on the way to a successful career for young people here in Michigan and across the country. Students with a bachelor’s degree will earn 70 percent more on average than those with only a high school diploma, which translates to $1 million over the […]

He has ridden 11,500 miles on his bike since 2002 to raise scholarship money for part-time students, and he’s still not satisfied.
Robert Erickson, the chair of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation, began his sixth annual 2,300-mile bicycle tour on Aug. 20 to raise money and public support for part-time students who attend colleges […]

Areas businesses, groups and individuals are continuing to contribute items for a Sept. 15 fund raiser that will kick off efforts to fund scholarships to honor two Bastrop Police Department detectives killed in the line of duty.
A week after Detective Sgt. John Smith and Detective Sgt. Chuck Wilson were killed on Aug. 10 by a […]

As Bates College prepares to begin its first academic year with a new set of core educational requirements, a foundation in Falmouth has awarded the college more than $250,000 to support the requirements’ focus on writing skills. The grant was received from the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s […]

State officials yesterday announced plans to pour $41 million into programs to help students with disabilities enter the workforce or start college after finishing high school.
More than $5 million of that will go to eight city schools, including Francis Lewis High School in Queens, where officials plan to spend their $423,000 grant on extra services […]