To all senior high school students, parents, teachers, and counselors, and to all women and minority, veterans, disabled, nontraditional, adult, and returning students. This page is here to try to help you with securing your financial aid, scholarships, and grants. This is all done by me, by hand, to try to make it the most helpful for you. My experience is that financial aid is exceedingly difficult. This information is free for everyone.
These two below are exactly the right kind of big, one-time, opportunities for the needs of some of our youth. I don't know the first very well, as I only learned of it a couple of days ago. I have been working around our Job Corps kids, however, from the Cass Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center near Ozark, Arkansas, near here. They always make a very fine impression!
The Online Colleges.org Support a Student Scholarship for Single Parents
A $10,000 scholarship will be awarded starting January 1st, 2012 to a single parent who is enrolled in an accredited online post-secondary institution. The scholarship will help pay for non-tuition related living expenses for the 2012 academic year that are not covered by the recipient’s current financial aid such as:
Rent
Childcare
Books and School Supplies
Utilities – Gas/Electric
Utilities – Internet Connection
Groceries
United Methodist Communications Scholarships & Fellowships
The $2,500 Leonard M. Perryman Communications Scholarship for Racial Ethnic Minorities is awarded to an undergraduate pursuing the study of religion journalism or mass communications. The Stoody-West Fellowship $6000 grant assists a United Methodist student in her or his post-graduate study at an accredited U.S. college or university who intends to pursue a career in religious journalism.
National FFA Organization Scholarship Program (Future Farmers of America)
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More than 1,000 scholarships and just one application; invest the time and explore the possibilities for your future!
FORD Built Ford Tough, Up to 700 $1,000 scholarships, Dealer signature required
Cargill Community Scholarship, 350 $1,000 scholarships, Cargill signature required
Monsanto Commitment to Agriculture, 100 $1,500 scholarships
Van Buren, Arkansas High School Counselors' Scholarship Resources and Scholarship News
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Arkansas Green Industry Association scholarship for students interested in nursery/landscaping or horticulture.
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Department of Higher Education
MISS lafée PROM USA ($2,500 Grand Prize) ($1,000 Runner UP) ($500 Third Place)
Greenwood, Arkansas High School Scholarship List
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Hammons Charitable Foundation (for active Southern Baptist students from east Arkansas and west Tennessee)
The FiSCA National Scholarship Program (Financial Service Centers of America, Inc., a National Trade Association)
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Conservation Scholarship and Internship Programs
Art Deadlines List
Art contests and competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships and grants and fellowships, art festivals, calls for entries/proposals/projects, and other opportunities, in all disciplines, for art students, art teachers, and artists of all ages.
Candace I. Filek, V.E.T.S. Secretary/Scholarship Chairman
8698 Midview Drive, Palo Cedro CA 96073
Telephone: 530/547-3776
[Apply on V.E.T.S. Annual Scholarship Form. Deadline April 1st annually. Must be a resident of Arizona, California, or the state of Washington.]
