Scholarship Opportunities for Students with Disabilities
Here are several opportunities to check out:
- Great website of various scholarship opportunities: http://www.onlineschools.org/financial-aid/disabilities/
- Transition Improvement Grant. They are offering 2, $1,000 scholarships to a student with a disability pursing further education. Students must be graduating spring 2014, and be a student receiving special education services. Students must complete and submit online application and essay questions. Application will be available after March 15th. www.wsti.org/youth-community/
- DisAbility Scholarship at Microsoft
The
mission of DisAbility Scholarship at Microsoft is to empower and enable high
schools students with disabilities to (a) go to college, (b) realize the impact
technology has on the world, and (c) target a career in the technology industry.
A primary goal of this scholarship is to increase the pool of persons living
with a disability enrolling in higher education and, in long term, decrease the
unemployment bias for this demographic.
This scholarship will identify promising high school seniors who have potential to enter and successfully complete a vocational or academic college program and have a financial need. The amount of the scholarship to be awarded is $5,000, which is paid through the Seattle Foundation on behalf of the Microsoft disAbility Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Microsoft to the recipient’s school’s Financial Aid Office.
All candidates must be high school students living with a disability who plan to attend a 2 to 4 year University or College program, maintain a cumulative 3.0 CPA or equivalent and have declared a major from the approved list. Go to www.seattlefoundation.org for more information.
This scholarship will identify promising high school seniors who have potential to enter and successfully complete a vocational or academic college program and have a financial need. The amount of the scholarship to be awarded is $5,000, which is paid through the Seattle Foundation on behalf of the Microsoft disAbility Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Microsoft to the recipient’s school’s Financial Aid Office.
All candidates must be high school students living with a disability who plan to attend a 2 to 4 year University or College program, maintain a cumulative 3.0 CPA or equivalent and have declared a major from the approved list. Go to www.seattlefoundation.org for more information.
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