Miscellaneous Scholarship Opportunities

• Colin U. Miller and Mary Hay Miller Scholarship
  (application not available online- contact FSO for details)
• Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) Scholarship Fund
  Scholarships for long and short term Israel programs are available to residents of the greater Boston community (ages 15-26) including local university students.
• Delaying the Real World
  Graduating undergraduate students set out for projects that will give them valuable experiences before attending graduate school or starting a career. Delaying The Real World funds its selected winners, so that their winners may conduct their projects.
• The Fletcher Fellowship
  $50,000 stipend awarded to each Fletcher Fellow. The Fletcher Fellowship accepts project proposals from all intellectual disciplines. All recipients are expected to attend an official reception in Spring 2008 at which the Fellows will be publicly named.
• Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Grants
  Research grants from $500 to $10,000 are awarded to the most qualified students and professionals whose research projects promise significant contributions to contemporary knowledge of the ancient Mesoamerican cultures of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Encourages interdisciplinary projects and accepts students of any degree level.
• Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship
  Fellows are awarded stipends of $45-60,000 depending on rank and experience. In addition, a moving allowance of up to $1000 is offered, dependent upon need. Fellowship applications are accepted from both tenured and untenured faculty as well as from recent Ph.D.s without a tenure-track position and professors emeriti.
• The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
  Ordinarily awards range from $15,000 to $30,000 for periods of one or two years. Larger amounts and durations must be strongly justified. Welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
• The Frederick Douglass Institute Predoctoral Fellowship
  Carries an annual stipend of $23,000, does not come with any teaching obligation, but will require the Fellow to work with the Institute’s Director in organizing colloquium, lectures, and other events. Awarded annually to a graduate student of any university who studies aspects of the African and African-American experience.
• Glamour's Top 10 College Women Competition
  $3,000, recognition in a Glamour issue, and a trip to New York City. For women who are undergraduate juniors that show great involvement with their college community.
• Humanity in Action
  Fellows from the USA and Europe will take part in a five-week educational program in New York City. Upon completion of the core program, Fellows from Europe will be assigned internships in non-governmental organizations whose activities are oriented to minority issues in the United States.
• The Fund for Theological Education - Undergraduate Fellowship
  $2,000 stipend and attendance at the FTE Conference on Excellence in Ministry. Available to current sophomores and juniors, under 30, in accredited undergraduate programs at North American colleges and universities and considering going into ministry. Must be nominated by college faculty, administrators, campus ministers or current pastors.
• John Gyles Education Award
  $3,000 given to winners. Available to Canadian and American citizens.
• Leopold Schepp Foundation
  Grants individual awards each year to both full time undergraduate students enrolled in four year bachelor programs and to full time graduate students. The Foundation also grants a small number of fellowship awards for independent study and research.
• Morgan Stanley - NBSE/SHPE/SWE Scholarship
  Morgan Stanley sponsors a variety of scholarships and internships for women and minorities.
• MOTOFWRD
  Demonstrate your vision of seamless mobility for the future. Full- and part-time college students studying in any field can submit their visions of seamless mobility through various presentations, from essays to artwork to films. The grand prize recipient will receive a $10,000 cash scholarship, an opportunity to participate in an eight-week apprenticeship with Motorola’s Chief Technology Office, a Bluetooth-enabled car and a Motorola product package valued at $1,500. A $2,500 cash scholarship and a Motorola product package valued at $250 will be award to three runners-up and the MY MOTOCHOICE winner.
• Phi Kappa Phi - Graduate Fellowship Competition
  Grants various awards and scholarships to Phi Kappa Phi members ever year. Last year, sixty students received Fellowships valued at $5,000 each, and forty students received Awards of Excellence valued at $2,000 each to support first-year graduate study at institutions of their choice. Fifty undergraduates received Study Abroad Grants of $1,000 each. Fourteen deserving Phi Kappa Phi members were named 2008 Literacy Grant recipients, collectively awarded $30,000.
• Pittsburgh Foundation - The Learning Fund
  Sophomores who graduated from a high school in Butler, New Castle, or Kittanning, PA, who are majoring in Psychology or Social Work. Contact FSO for more details.
• Pittsburgh Foundation - Pittsburgh Young Professionals Scholarship Fund
  Undergraduate and graduate students over the age of 21 who are committed to giving back to the Pittsburgh community after graduation. Contact FSO for more information and an application.
• Pittsburgh's Lambda Foundation
  $3,000  to students in who have made an outstanding contribution toward the integration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, culture, and organizations into their college community. Open to for sophomores, juniors, and graduate students.
• Scholarships for Average Students
  These scholarships don’t require a high GPA, but they do require excellence in a non-academic area. If the selection criteria doesn’t depend on academic merid, then they might depend on athletic or artistic merit, community service, extracurricular activities, or on skill in a non-academic discipline.

• The Sepmeyer Research Grant Program
  $5,000 awarded to those selected. IERF invites individuals and organizations to submit appropriate research project proposals for funding. Research grants are awarded for research only and not for study.
• Simon Fellowship for Noble Purpose
  The Simon Fellowship is a $40,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to those graduating college seniors who have demonstrated passion, dedication, a high capacity for self-direction, and originality in pursuit of a goal that will strengthen civil society. In addition, two $5,000 cash awards are made to two other outstanding students.
• Swann Foundation Fellowships
  Seeks to award one fellowship annually, with a stipend of up to $15,000, to assist the fellow in his/her ongoing scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon.
• USA Today College Academic All-American Team
  USA TODAY honors 20 undergraduate academic all-stars as its All-USA College Academic Team. They each receive a trophy and a $2,500 cash award. Forty more runners-up named to the Second and Third Teams receive certificates; their names are announced in the newspaper.
• United States Golf Association Grants Initiative Fellowship Program
• Vaughan Family Maritime Scholarship
  (application not available online- contact FSO for details)
• Marilyn Yetso Memorial Scholarship
  $2,500 scholarships for students in any fieild who have a parent with cancer or who have lost a parent to cancer.