Enrollment in an accredited associate's degree program in the NYC area

Completion of 12 - 30 non-remedial college credits by the application deadline (January 14, 2010)

U.S. citizen or permanent resident

Current recipient of federal and/or state financial aid

Minimum GPA of *3.25 on a 4.0 scale

*If your GPA is below 3.25, please submit a brief statement (200 word maximum) that explains why your current GPA may not reflect your academic potential.

Member of a underserved or underrepresented population

Desire to transfer to a bachelor's program immediately upon completion of an associate's degree

If your GPA is below 3.25, but believe you are a good candidate for the program, please submit a brief statement (maximum of 200 words) explaining why your GPA may not be reflective of your academic potential.

Get the application here.
Please visit: Kaplan Educational Foundation – Community College Transfer Scholarship
or the Scholarship Office for applications and/or additional information. Return completed applications to the Scholarship Office in Room # S-343.

There are four awards -- each with different eligibility and requirements as follows:
1) Kidney & Urology Foundation of America Scholarship Award
This award is for college-bound patients (aged 17-25) with kidney or urologic disease whose academic career would benefit from financial assistance. Recipients can receive up to $2,000 per year (renewable for up to 4 years maximum).
2) New Day Education & Rehabilitation Award
This award is for patients 25 years or older attending or returning to school to complete a degree, obtain professional certification, learn a new job skill, change careers, or seek physical rehabilitation. Recipients can receive up to $1,500 per year to support their schooling (renewable for up to 4 years maximum).

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   3) Covelli Family Achievement Award
This award is for young patients who deserve to be recognized for having improved their academic or life skills. Recipients can receive up to $500 and a certificate acknowledging their achievements.
   4) Bright Star Recognition Award
This award is for patients or family members who deserve to be recognized for their courage, strength, determination, generosity of spirit or kindness. Recipients will receive $250, a certificate, and earn $250 for their unit’s Patient Services Fund.
    May only apply for one award!

Please Visit: Patient Scholarships and Awards at the Kidney & Urology Foundation
for application and/or additional information.

The Contest is open to entrants from all nations. (However, entrants should provide themselves with some means for written communication in English.) All themes of science fiction and fantasy illustrations are welcome: every entry is judged on its own merits only. No entry fee is required and all rights in the entry remain the property of the artist.

Please Visit:
Winners & Awards
for complete submission instructions.

Please Visit: Writers & Illustrators of the Future
for additional rules and information.

To be eligible, entries must be works of prose, up to 17,000 words in length. We regret we cannot consider poetry, or works intended for children.

The Contest is open only to those who have not had professionally published a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium. Professional publication is deemed to be payment, and at least 5,000 copies, or 5,000 hits.
No entry fee is required, and all rights in the story remain the property of the author. All types of science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome.

Please Visit:
Winners & Awards
for complete submission instructio

Please Visit: Writers & Illustrators of the Future
for additional rules and information.

U.S. citizen or legal residents

High school seniors accepted to a 2 or 4 year college or university in the United States, and identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person

Visit:
League Foundation

Applicants must be U.S. citizens, and reside and attend school in any of the following states: CT, DE, FL, GA, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA, WV, and VT, or Washington, DC. Proof of citizenship will be required of all winners.

Applicants must be legally blind (i.e., have a best corrected visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, and/or a visual field of less than 20 degrees).
Scholarships are based on academic and other achievements, and candidates are not required to demonstrate financial need.

Completed Lighthouse Scholarships application form

Typewritten and double-spaced personal essay, not exceeding 500 words, summarizingacademic achievement and career goals; please include study interests and extra-curricular activities

Documentation of current legal blindness verifying the applicant’s vision impairment; the statement may come from an ophthalmologist, optometrist or State Rehabilitation Agency

Documentation of academic record and current school status; include most recent transcripts and letter of acceptance into chosen school or study program, when available

Letters of recommendation from two persons other than family members

Visit: Lighthouse Scholarships and Career Awards
(type Scholarship in the search box and then press enter, follow the directions)

If you have any question about the application procedure, contact Kelly Boyle at (212) 821-9428 or via e-mail: kboyle@lighthouse.org

The annual Scholarships & Career Awards Luncheon honoring this year's recipients will be held at Lighthouse International headquarters in June, 2009.

• 80 or better high school average
• Must be a graduating high school senior
• Must be a new York City Resident
  
  

•  3.0 minimum GPA at BMCC
•  Must demonstrate financial need 
•  Must show evidence of community or volunteer service 
•  Maintain full-time status at BMCC
  
  
  
  

*Currently Unavailable

AmeriCorps members provide tutoring, homework help, educational enrichment, cultural enrichment, service learning, recreational activities, sports programming, mentoring, counseling, team-building, and coaching for students in grades K-12 at in-school after-school programs operated by community based organizations.

Additionally, members design and implement community service projects and recruit and manage volunteers from the communities they serve. Members serve in teams of at least five and provide a total of 63,332 hours of service in after-school programs over the course of the academic year.

Contact: TASC – Community Works AmeriCorps Program
Ms. Jessica Lentini
Program Director
925 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-547-6985
Fax: 212-547-6983
E-mail: jlentini@tascorp.org

AAJA's mission is to encourage Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) to enter the ranks of journalism, work for fair and accurate coverage of AAPIs, and promote increasing the number of AAPI journalists and news managers in the industry.

Applicants must be a graduating high school senior, undergraduate, or graduate student enrolled full time with at least 12 credit units each semester for the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010 school year.

• Applicants must be currently taking or planning to take journalism courses and/or pursuing journalism as a career.
• AAJA membership is encouraged for all applicants and required for the selected scholarship recipients.

For membership, please apply online at: Asian American Journalists Association

Please visit: AAJA Programs Student Programs Scholarships
for applications, instructions, and/or additional information.

The scholarship is offered to any person of any nationality, 18 years of age or older as of the date of entry, who is a resident of the United States, or a student in a United States College or University.

Entrants must be enrolled as a full-time student (twelve semester hours) in an associate, undergraduate, or graduate level program at a university or college in the United States.

Employees, independent contractors, and management of Apogee Search, its affiliates, subsidiaries, and immediate family members and persons living in the same household of said people are not eligible to participate in the Program.

Create a social media campaign for a generic product using at least four out of 10 listed social media websites, and one of their discretion, for a total of at least five sites. In addition, entrants must explain their campaign via Product Outline.

Suggestions as to how to approach this topic include, but are not limited to: Creating video commercials to be posted on video sharing websites, designing an evolving profile of the product to befriend associates and acquaintances on social networking sites, blogging about this fictitious product/campaign, posting photos or pieces of art involving your product on a photo sharing website. See rules at: Apogee Search Scholarship Program Rules

Please visit: Apogee Search Scholarship Program
for application instructions and/or additional information.

Full-time or part-time minorty students majoring in public administration (governmental) accounting, finance, political science, or business administration preparing for careers in state and local government

Must be a U. S citizen or permanent resident

Member of one of the following groups: Black, Indian, Eskimo or Aleut, Asian or Pacific Islander, or Hispanic

Need recommendation of academic advisor or department chair

Visit: Government Finance Officers Association
(Click on the Forms link for application. E-mail application to: awardsforexcellence@gfoa.org

Since 1978, JRF has been awarding scholarships to low-income adult women who have a vision of how a college education will benefit themselves, their families, and their communities.

Selection is competitive, which means that meeting the eligibility requirements does not guarantee an applicant will receive a scholarship.
Women, at least 35 years of age as of March 1, 2009,

who are U.S. citizens,

and are pursuing a technical or vocational education, an associate's degree, or a first bachelor's degree (students who have already earned a bachelor's degree are ineligible),

and are enrolled in, or accepted to, a regionally accredited college for the Fall 2009 term (see website/application for additional information),

and are low-income according to the government guidelines (see application).

Please visit: Jennette Rankin Foundation
Applications are available from November through February each year.
You may also contact JRF via email or phone at 706-208-1211. Because we have limited staff, the preferred method of contact is e-mail: info@rankinfoundation.org

Nursing majors only, PCN students are not eligible

Clinical nursing students in semesters one through three
Applicant must be employed
Must demonstrate financial need

Applications may be obtained from the Nursing department Room S-785.

- U.S Citizen, Canadian Citizen, U.S permanent resident, Canadian permanent resident, U.S Student on an F 1 visa or Canadian student on student authorization

- African North American, Hispanic or Native North American

- 3.0 minimum GPA
- Junior or Senior year of college
- Attempting (or already passed) actuarial exam
- Attended an actuarial summer program
- Must be nominated
- Financial records

Visit:
Be An Actuary

Be a current student at an accredited U.S. community college or two-year institution with sophomore status by December 31, 2009, or a recent graduate (since spring 2004).

Plan to enroll full-time in a baccalaureate program at an accredited college or university in fall 2009.

Have a cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 3.50 or better on a 4.0 scale (or the equivalent).

Be nominated by his or her two-year institution.

Have unmet financial need.

Not previously have been nominated for a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Program scholarship.

Visit: http://www.jkcf.org/

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Completed at least two semesters of college education.

Be a current undergraduate or graduate student attending a United States university, or have just graduated in the spring immediately preceding the summer of the Internship.

Be available to work full-time for the entire length of the 10-week internship.

Be new to the organization. You may not serve as an Everett Intern at the same organization more than once. However, you may apply to be an Everett Intern at another organization.

Attend all mandatory weekly lectures and events produced for Everett Interns in New York and Washington, DC.

Internships are only available at participating organizations (see website for additional eligibility/requirement instructions).

Please visit: Everette Public Service Internship Program
for applications and/or additional information.

1 year experience with working with children

Must be 18 years or older

Currently attending college in New York State or have an associate degree

Must be a hardworking and dependable individual

Must be already a member of the program

Contact:
157 West 122nd Street
(between 7th and Lenox Ave.)
Call: (212) 234-6200

HACU applauds your initiative in searching for a scholarship! We hope that we will be able to assist you in defraying some of your college expenditures.

Each scholarship has specific criteria, so please review each one carefully (see current scholarships listed on website).

Scholarship eligibility is contingent on your enrollment at a HACU-member institution. If your institution is not a HACU-member, you will not be eligible for a scholarship.

Demonstrate financial need

Be attending a HACU-member institution (excluding international members) at the time applications are completed and scholarship awards are made.

Scholarships are non-renewable unless otherwise indicated. Renewable scholarships are contingent upon funding and the student’s continuing eligibility. Full-time students are those taking at least 12 credit hours per semester or its equivalent for graduate students.

Please visit: HACU Scholarship Program
for applications and/or additional information.

Continuing part-time BMCC students who demonstrate high academic performance and financial need
Must be a BMCC student who has completed at least 20 credits
Must have attended part-time in at least one of the last 2 semesters
Must demonstrate financial need
Must have a minimum GPA of 3.3
Must complete all remedial classes
Must be matriculated for your first degree
Must register for at least six real credits
Must maintain a minimum of at least six credits each semester with a minimum GPA of 3.3

 Must be enrolled in your first degree (please do not apply if you hold an Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degree)
 Application form, typed or printed
 A one-page typed essay discussing your long-range academic and professional goals and your financial need
 Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a faculty or staff member on a BMCC letterhead

For more information about this scholarship, visit the Scholarship Office in Room # S-343.

*Currently Unavailable

- Full-time students who demonstrate exceptional athletic ability based on performance/record
- Not subject to any disciplinary action

- 2.0 minimum GPA
- Applicants must first file an admission application
- File a completed FAFSA no later than February 15

Contact Adelphi University,
Office of Student Financial Services
(516) 877-3080 or visit:
Adelphi University Scholarships and Grants