Additional Scholarships & Directories

Many community organizations, foundations and businesses offer scholarships. Start your research early by browsing the scholarship directories and using the free search engines on the web. Also, contact the personnel offices of companies in your area or where your parents work to see if they offer scholarships. Scholarship leads may also be listed in magazines or on web sites related to your interests or skills. Individual Scholarships www.soroptimist.org: The Soroptimist International of Pomona/Claremont is offering the Women's Opportunity Award of $1,500 to women who have primary financial responsibility in their family unit, attend or have been accepted to an undergraduate degree program and have financial need. Deadline: December 15, 2009 www.foreclosure.com/education/scholarship/index.html: The Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program is offering a $5,000 and a $1,000 scholarship to the best essays entitled "How to Solve the Foreclosure Crisis." Deadline: December 21, 2009 www.scholarshipamerica.org/talbotswomen: The Talbots Charitable Foundation, in keeping with its long-standing tradition of helping women succeed, is proud to present the 2010 Talbots Scholarship Foundation and the inaugural Nancy Talbot Scholarship Award for perseverance and ingenuity. This program empowers women to enrich themselves through learning and achieve a college education later in life. Deadline: January 2, 2010 www.ocmensa.org: The American Mensa Education and Research Foundation is offering several scholarships ranging from $300 to $1,000 to students enrolled for the 2010-2011 academic year and residing in the area of a local Mensa Group. Deadline: January 15, 2010 http://www.krellinst.org/csgf: The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship is open to full-time students who are planning to engage on an uninterrupted study toward a PhD degree in scientific or engineering disciplines with an emphasis in high-performance computing. Areas include, but are not limited to Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Astronomy, Biomedical Applications and Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Computational fluid dynamics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, or Physics. Deadline: January 15, 2010 http://foundation.westernunion.com/ourProgramsScholarships.html: The Western Union Foundation is offering family scholarships of $1,5000 to $5,000 to students with at least one parent whose country of origin is outside the United States. Deadline: February 5, 2010  www.aws.org/foundation: The American Welding Society (AWS) offers three different scholarship programs: The District Scholarship Program, which is open to students pursuing a welding-related career; the National Scholarship Program, which contains individual scholarships each worth a minimum of $2,500 annually; and the International Scholarship Program, which is open to international students pursuing a degree in a welding-related field. In addition. Deadline: March 2010  www.chssc.org: The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California is offering a $1,000 David and Pearl Louie Scholarship to one undergraduate student and to one graduate student with a minimum GPA of 3.0. Deadline: March 26, 2010 www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/studentloans/marketing.cfm: US Bank is offering forty, $1,000 scholarships to high school students and current college freshmen, sophomores or juniors who will be enrolled by September 2010 at an eligible four-year college or university. Deadline: March 31, 2010 www.degreedirectory.org/pages/business_scholarship.html: DegreeDirectory is offering a $1,000 scholarship for students pursuing business related majors. Deadline: April 1, 2010 www.goarmy.com/amedd/hpsp.jsp: The Health Professions Scholarship Program offers full tuition for any accredited medical, dental, veterinary, psychology or optometry program, plus a generous monthly stipend of more than $1,900. For more information, contact Johnny.Nguyen@usarec.army.mil www.ScholarshipPoints.com: Earn points completing online activities then redeem them for entries to monthly $1,000 scholarship drawings.

Applications for the following scholarships are not available online, but can be picked up at Cal Poly Pomona’s Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships. The California Mathematics Council, Southern Section, is offering a scholarship to students enrolled in a credential program seeking to teach mathematics in elementary or secondary education. CMC-S is also offering grants to professionals who strive to improve the quality of mathematics instruction or who are interested in teaching mathematics but need re-training. Deadline: January 15, 2010 The Maria Cecilia Rosa Memorial Foundation Scholarship is open to all Southern California students. Deadline: January 29, 2010 The Soroptimist International of Los Angeles announces a fellowship award in the amount of $3,500 for a woman in Graduate Study during the 2010-2011 academic year, who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, has performed services for her community and has financial need. Deadline: January 31, 2010 The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) is offering the Clair A. Hill Scholarship of $5,000 to students who demonstrate a commitment to the field of water resources, will be a junior or senior next academic year, will enroll full-time and will attend the complete school year. Deadline: February 1, 2010 The Whittier Area California Retired Teachers' Association is offering $1,500 scholarships to upper-division and graduate students enrolled full-time planning to enter the teaching profession, with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and plan to enter the teacher profession. Deadline: March 13, 2010 Scholarship Search Engines SchoolSoup has 32 billion dollars in scholarship offers as well as information on thousands of colleges and universities and hundreds of careers. Student Scholarship Search: Browse and search for a wide variety of scholarship opportunities without having to create an account. www.collegescholarships.org: is an "open-book" guide to scholarships. It's free and we don't solicit students for personal information of any kind or that of their friends. The design is a distinct departure from the scholarship search services that require students to create a profile and login. www.princetonreview.com: Get matched to school-specific and private scholarships for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, Business School, Medical School, and Law school. Over 230,000 scholarships available. www.scholarshipexperts.com/scholarship/apply.jsp: Apply for scholarships at the Scholarship Experts, it's fast, easy and free. www.scholarships.com: Since 1998, helping students of all ages find money for college www.brokescholar.com: Browse thousands of awards worth over $2.5 billion. www.collegenet.com/mach25: This Mach25 database contains over 600,000 awards totaling over $1.6 billion. Keyword Search gives you a quick way to narrow down to a particular scholarship or group of scholarships. www.collegescholarships.com: College Connection has been listing free scholarship information, monthly, since 1995. www.fastaid.com: FastAid free private sector scholarship search. www.fastweb.com: With more than $3 billion in scholarships, the FastWeb scholarship search one of the largest, most accurate and most frequently updated scholarship database. www.findtuition.com: A free scholarship search with over 1.7 million scholarships worth over $7 billion. www.scholarshipexperts.com/scholarship/apply.jsp: Apply for scholarships at the Scholarship Experts, it's fast, easy and free. www.uncf.org: United Negro College Fund site allows you to search through thousands of different scholarships and grants. California Latino Scholarship Directory: The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) proudly announces the release of an updated and expanded version of its popular scholarship directory, Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for California's Latino Students. The directory, which was originally released in early November 2006, has been viewed online more than 15,000 times and quickly sold out its initial print run. Now in its second printing, the directory has been expanded to include more than 20 of the largest national scholarship funders, providing millions of dollars of additional scholarship opportunities for California's Latino students. Printed copies will be distributed through The Sallie Mae Fund's national "Paying for College" Bus Tour, which launches its California tour today. Additional scholarship directories will be distributed by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, and by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund at their programs throughout Southern California. Funding for the second printing was made possible with a special grant from The Walt Disney Company. Funding for the original project was made possible with funding from The Sallie Mae Fund, Southern California Edison, and The Walt Disney Company. To download a PDF of the expanded directory, click here. The online version of the directory, which was made possible with a grant from AT&T, may be accessed at www.latinocollegedollars.org About TRPI - Founded in 1985, the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) advances informed policy on key issues affecting Latino communities through objective and timely research contributing to the betterment of the nation. TRPI is an affiliated research unit of the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development and is associated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. Website: http://www.trpi.org

Visit the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships located in the CLA Bldg. 98, 3rd floor for more outside scholarship opportunities. Attention Students! Help out other college students and send your favorite scholarship link to Financial Aid. Scholarship Scams: Beware of companies that guarantee or promise scholarships. Do not send money to companies that make generous promises, charge a fee for you to receive aid, request money by claiming you are a finalist or request your credit card or bank account number. To learn more, go to: www.ftc.gov/scholarshipscams                                                                                 Back to Additional Scholarship Resources