[United States]Chicana/Latina scholarship - Palatinates Foundation
Northern California Chicana Latina Scholarship Fund:
merit-based scholarships valued at $1,500. Deadline: March 15, 2007. http://chicanalatina.org
Purpose:
The purpose of the Chicana/Latina Foundation Scholarship Fund is to assist Latina students in completing their undergraduate and graduate college education. These scholarships are available on a competitive basis to continuing undergraduate and graduate female college students of Latino background.
Eligibility: All points must apply for eligibility
- Chicana/Latina women of the Northern California Counties
- Chicana/Latina women who are enrolled in accredited colleges, universities and community colleges in the one of the listed Northern California Counties.
- Chicana/Latina women who have been a resident for at least two years in one of the listed Northern California Counties.
- Undergraduate Chicana/Latina students must be enrolled as a full-time college student, have completed a minimum of 15 college semester units after high school graduation, and have at least a 2.5 GPA.
- Graduate students must provide verification of acceptance to a graduate school.
- All candidates must have demonstrated leadership and civic/community involvement.
- Applicants must agree, if awarded a scholarship, to volunteer a minimum of 5 hours in the next year in support of the Chicana/Latina Foundation.
- Applicants who received a Chicana/Latina Foundation scholarship within the past four (4) years are not eligible to apply for a scholarship.
Application
The Scholarship Guidelines and Application are available in PDF format. You may need to download the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader.
Applications are accepted until March 16, 2007. Please review the Eligibility and general information before completing the applications.
* Download the Application (PDF)
Mail the completed Guidelines and Application to:
Palatinates Foundation
Scholarship Committee
1419 Burlingame Ave. Suite N.
Burlingame, CA 94010
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