Featured Accomplice Scholarships: February/March 2024

By Matt Konrad

As we transfer into spring, scholarship season is heating up too—our featured packages this time round embody a $25,000 STEM award, a scholarship particular to college students with disabilities and an modern program from the United Well being Basis for medical professionals to spice up their expertise and earn new credentials. Examine them out right here, and go to our Browse Scholarships web page to see all at present open purposes!

Constellation Students

Constellation is the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free power and a number one provider of power services. Via Constellation Students, a philanthropic program combining present and new academic help initiatives, the corporate is working with faculties and nonprofit organizations to create scholarship alternatives—together with renewable $5,000/yr scholarships to eligible college students from historically underrepresented populations in Illinois, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania.

“A part of our dedication to speed up the clear power transition is rising our funding within the communities we serve and the gifted younger women and men who will assist lead us towards a extra sustainable future,” stated Joe Dominguez, president and CEO, Constellation. “We’re devoted to bridging the academic and alternative gaps that exist in our society and supporting the intense younger minds who’ve the potential to grow to be leaders in our trade and in STEM fields total.”

Candidates should be highschool seniors who self-identify as Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian or different Pacific Islander, and should be planning to enroll in part-time or full-time undergraduate research at an accredited faculty or college or for the whole upcoming tutorial yr. To qualify, candidates should even be pursuing a serious in Engineering (particularly Mechanical, Electrical, Laptop, or Nuclear) Laptop Science, Knowledge Science, IT, Cybersecurity, Finance or Enterprise.

Awards are renewable for as much as 5 complete years or till a bachelor’s diploma is earned, with a most complete of $25,000 over 5 years.

Functions are open via March 15. Apply Now >

United Well being Basis Range in Well being Care Scholarship

Now in its second yr, the United Well being Basis’s Range in Well being Care Scholarship helps underrepresented well being professionals in acquiring further certifications or levels in medication, nursing, midwifery, psychological well being and different specialties to advance their careers.

This program is open to present or former well being professionals and can award 325 scholarships of $3,200 to college students from traditionally underrepresented populations who’re looking for to advance their medical expertise. To verify your eligibility, you may evaluation the lists of acceptable diploma packages and eligible present or energetic licenses and certificates. Please notice that physicians who’re looking for further certifications or levels should not eligible.

You should at present maintain an energetic license/certificates to apply in a medical well being profession, and plan to enroll in full-time or part-time research at an accredited two- or four-year faculty, college, vocational-technical or graduate faculty, beginning in Fall 2024.  

The United Well being Basis’s Range in Well being Care Scholarship is open to college students from traditionally underrepresented communities, together with those that determine as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or different Pacific Islander.

“I’m at present making an attempt to get my Physician of Nursing apply in midwifery… I need to assist people who really feel like they don’t seem to be being represented within the medical discipline,” says Tuyet Nhu Truong, a registered nurse who’s utilizing her scholarship to work towards turning into an authorized nurse midwife with a Doctorate of Nursing Follow.

Utility is open via March 22. Apply Now > 

Wells Fargo Scholarship for Individuals With Disabilities

Based on U.S. Division of Labor statistics, People with disabilities face an uphill battle in relation to becoming a member of the workforce. Whereas almost 77% of working-age individuals (ages 16-64) with out disabilities are at present employed, lower than 40% of these with disabilities are energetic within the workforce. Academic alternatives may also help shut that hole, that’s why Wells Fargo is proud to supply the Wells Fargo Scholarship Program for Individuals with Disabilities. This program is geared particularly towards part-time and full-time faculty college students with disabilities, serving to them pursue the schooling or coaching they want to achieve their chosen profession path. 

In partnership with Scholarship America, Wells Fargo has offered greater than $1 million to assist 228 scholarship recipients with disabilities obtain their academic targets. In 2024, the Wells Fargo Scholarship for Program for Individuals with Disabilities will as soon as once more present awards of as much as $2,500 to qualifying full-time college students, renewable as much as three years. Awards of as much as $1,250 can be found to qualifying part-time college students and are renewable as much as seven years, or till a bachelor’s diploma is earned, whichever happens first. 

“I imagine packages like this pushed me to make use of my voice to advocate for myself and others,” stated Gloria Li, a 2019 College of Florida graduate with Tourette’s syndrome, who acquired the Wells Fargo Scholarship for Individuals with Disabilities for 2 years. “I’m really grateful for scholarship packages like Wells Fargo’s as a result of it sends the message that folks with disabilities have potential that transcends the constraints they had been born with and that we deserve a voice and illustration in society.”

Functions are open via March 20. Apply Now >