Burress Injury Law Scholarships
Sponsor: Burress Injury Law
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: June 8, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate students who are are U.S. citizens. Applicant must have a demonstrated record of community or volunteer service. Applicant must submit an essay on the following prompt: “Describe a challenge or trying time in your life through which you persevered, and how the experience helped shape your future.”

HBCU Scholars Empowerment Program
Sponsor: Daughters of Charity Inc.
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: June 8, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to Black/African American students admitted to or enrolled as a full-time freshman at an accredited U.S. located four-year, Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) or Historically Black College or University (UBCU) in the upcoming academic year.

Ocean Awareness Student Contest
Sponsor: From the Bow Seat
Amount: Up to $1,500
Closing Date: June 8, 2026
Description: Contest is open to middle and high school students from around the world between the ages of 11 and 18 years of age. Applicant must focus on this year theme of “Your Story, Our Ocean: How Our Ocean Sustains, Protects, and Inspires Us” and submit a piece of art, poetry, prose, film or music on this year’s theme.

Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation
Amount: Up to $4,000
Closing Date: June 12, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college students who have neurological disabilities or are the child of a person with a neurological disability. Priority will be given to direct spinal cord injuries and diseases resulting in paralysis such as spinal tumors, strokes or aneurysms affecting the spinal cord, or spina bifida.

Cohen & Jaffe Scholarship Essay Contest
Sponsor: Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe LLP
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: June 12, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to students admitted or enrolled in an accredited college, university, or graduate school who is a New York State resident and have at least a 2.5 GPA. Applicant must submit an essay on standing up for others OR the importance of community engagement.

Fred Ohm Dream Builder Scholarship
Sponsor: Stonewall Community Foundation
Amount: $5,000.00
Closing Date: June 12, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current undergraduate students who identify aws LGBTQ+. Applicant must also identify as an immigrant OR as someone with experience in the foster care system and attends/plans to attend a college or university in New York State.

Potato LEAF Scholarship
Sponsor: Potato Leadership, Education & Advancement Foundation (LEAF)
Amount: $10,000.00
Closing Date: June 12, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduate students working to improve the future of the U.S. potato industry.

Frieda Saraga Scholarship
Sponsor: PFLAG of Jacksonville
Amount: Up to $2,000
Closing Date: June 13, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college students who reside in the Jacksonville metropolitan area (Florida) and must demonstrate service to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

AIChE Minority Scholarship Awards
Sponsor: AIChE
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate students enrolled in a chemical engineering program during the upcoming academic year who are members of a minority group that is under-represented in chemical engineering.

AmericanMuscle Automotive Scholarships
Sponsor: AmericanMuscle
Amount: $2,000.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors and current college students who are pursuing an automotive degree or related field of study.

AmericanTrucks Student Scholarships
Sponsor: AmericanTrucks
Amount: $2,000.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and students currently enrolled full-time in an accredited United States technical institute, secondary votech or tuition bearing apprenticeship program in he traditional building trades (e.g. carpentry, HVAC, electrical or related fields of study.

ARN Scholarships
Sponsor: Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to ARN members who are enrolled in a BSN or graduate level degree program in Nursing.

Center Scholarships
Sponsor: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students who are 22 years or age or younger. Applicant must be a registered member of Center Youth programming (New York). Applicant must submit a personal statement explaining what the LGBTQ+ community and community service means to them.

Children of Injured Workers Scholarship
Sponsor: Hoggatt Injury Law
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current undergraduate and graduate students who have a parent who has been affected by a work-related injury. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen and have at least a 2.5 GPA.

Communication Contest for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CCDHH)
Sponsor: Optimist International
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Contest is open to young people through grade 12 in the United States and Canada, to CEGEP in Quebec and grade 13 in the Caribbean, who are educated in the United States, Canada or the Caribbean. Applicant must be deaf or hard of hearing. Closing date is the national closing date. Applicant should contact local Optimist Club for specific date.

ExtremeTerrain’s Student Scholarship
Sponsor: ExtremeTerrain
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to students who are/will be pursuing a degree in Environmental Studies, Environmental Research, Land Use, Earth & Atmosphere Studies, Sustainable Land Management, Parks and Recreation, or Sustainable Agriculture Systems during the fall term.

GoFoodservice Scholarship
Sponsor: GoFoodservice
Amount: $500.00
Closing Date: June 15, 2026
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who plan to enroll in college at the start of next school year and students who are currently enrolled in a Culinary Arts or Hospitality Management program.

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