African American Scholarships

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Scholarship open to African American or Black students.

Kay Longcope Scholarship Award
Sponsor: National Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association (NLGJA)
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: May 20, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to LGBT individuals of color planning to pursue a career in journalism and are able to demonstrate their passion and commitment to the profession.

Teacher Pipeline Scholarship
Sponsor: UNCF
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: May 20, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current full-time undergraduate students who wish to pursue a career in K-12 education. Scholarship is open to all majors with a preference for students majoring in education, teaching, or related courses of study.

HBCU Sustainable Communities Initiative Scholarship
Sponsor: Sustainable Communities HBCU Initiative
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: May 21, 2024
Description: Scholarship program is open to rising undergraduate juniors and seniors who attend an UNCF member institution in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, or Virginia and are majoring in STEM, business, or sustainability related disciplines.

Graduate Student Scholarship
Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: May 22, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduate students who demonstrate academic achievement and promise in Communication Sciences and Disorders. In addition to the general scholarship, there are scholarships open to minority students and international students studying in the U.S.

Luther and Mary Ida Vandross Scholarship
Sponsor: The Philadelphia Foundation
Amount: Up to $6,000
Closing Date: May 13, 2024extended to May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students in their 3rd, 4th, or 5th year of study leading to an undergraduate degree who are enrolled at a four-year Historically Black College or University (HBCU). Applicant must have at least a 2.5 GPA and demonstrate financial need.

Slater-Millner Scholars Program
Sponsor: Slater-Millner Scholars Fund | UNCF
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current college freshmen who will be enrolled full-time as a sophomore during the next academic year. Applicant must be African American/Black, Native American/Alaskan Native, or Native Hawaiian and be in a program on a curricular track for an M.D. degree in Allopathic Medicine or a D.O. degree in Osteopathic Medicine.

UNCF 3M Science. Applied to Life. Scholarship
Sponsor: 3M | UNCF
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to underrepresented high school seniors and current first-year college students from St. Paul Public Schools, local Charter Schools serving St. Paul students, or the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District. Applicant must be interested in pursuing a STEM degree.

ISACA Scholarship Program
Sponsor: ISACA Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to students who are members of a historically underrepresented population within the tech place who plan on pursue a career in a cyber-related field.

Target Advancing Design Diversity Scholarship
Sponsor: Target | UNCF
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to Black/African American students who are enrolled as a full-time, first-year student during the upcoming fall term. Applicant must be pursuing a degree in Design (Apparel Design, Apparel Technical Design, Costume Design, Digital Arts and Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Product Development, Footwear Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Packaging Design, Product Design, UX Design, Technical Design, Textile Arts, Textile Design/Surface/Fibers Textile Sciences and Engineering, Transportation Design, or Weaving Arts).

Crest + Oral B Bridges Program
Sponsor: National Dental Association Foundation | Family Dollar | Crest + Oral B
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students who are Black or African American who are pursuing careers in dental, dental hygiene, or dental assisting program.

Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship Program
Sponsor: The Bar Association of San Francisco
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to qualified students from minority groups underrepresented in law schools who attend one of the Law Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Beauty Changes Lives Foundation Scholarships
Sponsor: Beauty Changes Lives Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to prospective and current cosmetology students. In addition to the general scholarships, there are scholarships open specifically to students identifying as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color.

CVS Health Foundation Health Care Careers Scholarship
Sponsor: CVS | UNCF
Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to rising college juniors who are Black or Latinx. Applicant must have an interest in pursuing a career in the health care sector.

Intellia Therapeutics UNCF Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Intellia Therapeutics | UNCF
Amount: $5,416
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to African American/Black, LatinX and Indigenous/Native American students who are current undergraduate students and majoring in a life science field.

Kelvin D. Isom II Impact Scholarship
Sponsor: Poise Foundation
Amount: $250
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college freshmen in good academic standing who are/will be attending a four-year college or university in Western Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia, or Washington, D.C. Preference will be given to those who have at least a 3.0 GPA and/or are low income. African American students are encouraged to apply.

Owens Corning Building Futures Scholarship
Sponsor: UNCF | The Owens Corning Foundation
Amount: Up to $4,250
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming college students who are Black/African American or Latinx/Hispanic. Applicant must reside or be a permanent resident in an approved zip code of one of the following cities: Compton, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Fairburn, Georgia; Savanna, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Tennessee; or Houston, Texas.

David Hudak Memorial Essay Contest for Freethinking Students of Color
Sponsor: Freedom From Religion Foundation
Amount: Up to $3,500
Closing Date: June 1, 2024
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 must submit an essay on a given prompt related to rejection of religion. The contest is offered to provide support and acknowledgment for freethinking students of color, as a minority within a minority.

Jimmy A. Young Memorial Education Recognition Award
Sponsor: American Respiratory Care Foundation
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: June 1, 2024
Description: Award is open to students enrolled in an accredited respiratory care training program. Preference will be given to nominees of minority origin.

Kia America Accelerate the Good Scholarship
Sponsor: Kia America | UNCF
Amount: Up to $15,000
Closing Date: June 3, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate students studying STEM or Business Administration during the 2024-2025 academic year.

SMPS Foundation Zinsmeyer Scholarship
Sponsor: Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) | UNCF
Amount: Up to $1,500
Closing Date: June 3, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to African American college sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are attending an HBCU. Applicant must have at least a 2.5 GPA and be enrolled in one of the designated fields: architecture, construction management, engineering, marketing, mass communications, or public relations.

First X UNCF Scholars Program
Sponsor: FIRST | UNCF
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: June 6, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to alumni of FIRST who will be enrolled in the upcoming Fall as an undergraduate student at a Hispanic Serving Institution, an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution, a Tribal College, or a Historically Black College or University. Applicant must have at least a 2.5 GPA.

UNCF STEM Scholars Program
Sponsor: UNCF
Amount: Up to $25,000
Closing Date: June 7, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who identify as African-American, Hispanic American, Asian Pacific Islander American, American Indian or Alaskan Native. Applicant must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0, and plan to study a STEM field in college, including Biological/life sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science/Engineering, Information Sciences, Engineering, or Mathematics. Applicant must have demonstrated financial and unmet need as measured by the student’s college or university.

ConocoPhillips Last Dollar Scholarship
Sponsor: ConocoPhillips | UNCF
Amount: Up to $3,187
Closing Date: June 10, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to African American college sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have a declared major in a STEM-related discipline, accounting, finance, human resources, or information technology.

EESI Future Climate Leaders Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) | UNCF
Amount: $4,000
Closing Date: June 13, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to sophomores and juniors enrolled full-time at an HBCU in the Mid-Atlantic or Southern Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia). Preference will be granted to students who are pursuing a degree in a relevant field of study (i.e. a declared major in biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, environmental science or policy, history, physics, political science, and sociology).

Lam Research Scholarship
Sponsor: Lam Research | UNCF
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: June 14, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to African American/Black undergraduate and graduate students enrolled full time at UNCF Member Institutions majoring in Chemical/Electrical/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering, Computer or Materials Science, Chemistry, or Physics.

WebstaurantStore Scholarships
Sponsor: WebstaurantStore
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: June 15, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students majoring in Culinary Arts, Hospitality Management, or a closely related field. In addition to the general scholarship, there is a scholarship open to ethic minority students.

Ruth Mullen Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Editorial Freelancers Association | UNCF
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: June 17, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) who are in a degree program leading to employment in the publishing or communications industry.

First in Family Humanist Scholarship; Freedom From Religion Foundation Forwards Freethought Scholarship
Sponsor: Black Skeptics Los Angeles | Freedom From Religion Foundation
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: June 21, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students of color who identify as agnostic, atheist, humanist and/or secular. Preference will be given to students who are first in their families to go to college and students who are (or have been) in foster care, homeless, undocumented and/or LGBTQ are encouraged to apply. Applicant must provide an admission letter to a two or four-year college.

TMCF | Sallie Mae Fund Completing the Dream Gap Scholarship
Sponsor: The Sallie Mae Fund
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: June 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students who’s degree or program will end Spring 2024 semester. Applicant must have at least a 2.75 GPA and have an unpaid school balance up to $2,500.

Dorris Catherine Haselrig Rideout Scholarship
Sponsor: Poise Foundation
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: June 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students who have been accepted in (or are currently undergraduates) from any school in the United States and are majoring (or specializing) in the area of human services. They MUST be pursuing an Associated degree, a Bachelor’s degree or a certificate. They MUST aspire to work in career fields which academically, morally and socially uplift Black people. Preference will be given to residents of Allegheny county and surrounding counties and to residents of Cambria county (Johnston area, PA)

Scholarship for Students of Color
Sponsor: CollegExpress
Amount: $1,500
Closing Date: June 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students of color who are graduating high school seniors and planning to enrolled in college in the fall. Applicant must answer the following question in just one sentence: “What is your dream career to pursue after high school?”

Luther Vandross Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Luther Vandross Foundation
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: July 1, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students with at least a 2.5 GPA who are full-time students attending a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) and be in their 3rd, 4th, or 5th year of their undergraduate program

Associates Scholars Empowerment Program
Sponsor: Daughters of Charity Inc.
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: July 8, 2024
Description: Scholarship program is open to Black/African American students enrolled at an accredited U.S. based two-year degree granting institution or an accredited, UNCF approved certificate granting program. Applicant must have at least a 2.25 GPA.

HBCU Scholars Empowerment Program
Sponsor: Daughters of Charity Inc.
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: July 8, 2024
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.

Nevada-UNCF Scholarship
Sponsor: UNCF
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: August 5, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to African American 2024 high school graduates who attend a HBCU. Applicant must be a permanent resident of the metropolitan Las Vegas region in the state of Nevada and must have at least a 2.5 GPA.

Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr. Scholarship
Sponsor: Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr. Foundation | UNCF
Amount: $5,500
Closing Date: August 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to college freshmen attending a UNCF member institution, a Historically Black College or University (HBCU), or any accredited, four-year institution and is interested in majoring in education and/or a STEM related field. Applicant must be a resident of Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio.

API Scholarships
Sponsor: API Study Abroad
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: November 1, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to API program participants. There are multiple scholarships with specific requirements – see website for details. In addition to general scholarships, there are scholarships specifically open to community college students, military veterans, non-traditional students, students with disabilities, minority students, LGBTQ students, STEM majors, and student athletes. This deadline is for Spring session students.

art + biz Scholarship
Sponsor: Barrel and Flow Fest
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: Rolling
Description: Scholarship is open to residents of Western Pennsylvania who identify as Black or African American, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color. Applicant must be currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in a visual arts, performing arts, or culinary arts.