Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Scholarships for Adult Learners
Sponsor: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarships are open to adult learners from the Memphis area. There are multiple scholarships – see website for specific details.

Costas G. Lemonopoulous Scholarship
Sponsor: National Association of Letter Carriers
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to children of NALC members attending public, four-year colleges or universities supported by the state of Florida or St. Petersburg Junior College (no private colleges or universities and no other junior colleges).

CURE – Cancer Support Scholarship
Sponsor: Lep Foundation for Youth Education
Amount: $5,000.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to accepted and current college students who were diagnosed with cancer in childhood and whose disease and related treatments placed a significant financial burden on them and their families.

David Hudak Memorial Essay Contest for Freethinking
Sponsor: Freedom From Religion Foundation
Amount: Up to $3,500
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Competition is open to freethinking students of color ages 17-21 who are either high school seniors or students currently enrolled in a college or university. Applicant’s parent(s) or legal guardian(s) must not have completed an associate’s or bachelors’s degree from an accredited college or university. Applicant must submit an essay on the following topic: “Why white supremacy dgoes hand-in-hand with Christian nationalism.”

Dermer Appel Ruder Scholarship
Sponsor: Dermer Appel Ruder, LLC
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to students who will be pursuing undergraduate degrees in pre-law studies or students entering law school in the Fall 2026 semester. Applicant must submit an essay on a topic of their choice related to an area of law that interests them.

Dermer Appel Ruder Scholarship
Sponsor: Dermer Appel Ruder, LLC
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to students who will be pursuing undergraduate degrees in pre-law studies or students entering law school in the Fall 2026 semester. Applicant must submit an essay on a topic of their choice related to an area of law that interests them.

Dr. Walter W. Ristow Prize
Sponsor: Washington Map Society
Amount: $1,500.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Prize is open to all full and part-time undergraduate, graduate, and first year post-doctoral students attending accredited colleges and universities anywhere in the world. Student must submit a research paper or bibliographic study related to the history of cartography.

Eastern Dioceses Scholarship
Sponsor: Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who are active members of the Diocese of New York and Washington D.C. or The Diocese of Charleston, Oakland, and the Mid-Atlantic of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America (Eastern Dioceses).

Elmhurst Garden Club Scholarship
Sponsor: Elmhurst Garden Club
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to Illinois residents who are college juniors, seniors or graduate students majoring in Horticulture, Environmental Studies, Biology, Botany and/or other related sciences.

Generation Hope Scholars Program – Washington, DC
Sponsor: Generation Hope
Amount: Up to $2,400
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to young parents (be a teen parent – any gender, defined as pregnant/expecting by 19) and 25 or younger at the time of application. Applicant must be from the Washington, DC area (within 50 miles). Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, legal resident or have DACA status.

GrassRoots Tree & Turf Care Scholarship
Sponsor: GrassRoots Tree & Turf Care
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college students pursuing a degree at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution. Applicant must submit an essay that explains how they would become the Best Service Company in the law-care industry.

Houtan Scholarship
Sponsor: Houtan Scholarship Foundation
Amount: $3,500.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduate students with a working knowledge of Parsi and demonstrated interest in Iranian culture, heritage, and literature.

JASNA Essay Contest
Sponsor: Jane Austen Society of North America
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Contest is open to students world-wide who are enrolled in high school, college/university, or graduate school. Student must submit an essay on a given topic related a Jane Austen work.

Jimmy A. Young Memorial Education Recognition Award
Sponsor: American Respiratory Care Foundation
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Award is open to students enrolled in an accredited respiratory care training program. Preference will be given to nominees of minority origin.

Joe Francis Haircare Scholarship
Sponsor: Joe Francis Haircare Scholarship Foundation
Amount: $1,500.00
Closing Date: June 1, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently applying for entrance into Cosmetology/Barber School, or actively enrolled in a Cosmetology/Barber program.

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