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The Children's Scholarship Fund is a privately funded tuition assistance program in the United States. The fund provides scholarships enabling low-income children to attend private schools. More than 25,700 students in Kindergarten to 8th Grade receive the fund's scholarships. [1] It was founded in 1998 by Theodore J. Forstmann and John T. Walton.
A young man (in bowtie) receives a scholarship at a ceremony. A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need, research experience or specific professional experience.
The Judd School (often known simply as Judd) is an 11–18 voluntary aided, grammar school and sixth form in Tonbridge, Kent, England.It was established in 1888 at Stafford House on East Street in Tonbridge, where it remained for eight years before moving to its present location on Brook Street, in the south of the town.
The Fund for American Studies headquarters in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. The Fund for American Studies was founded by Charles Edison in 1967. . Concerned about an eroding confidence in the American system of government, Edison recruited Walter H. Judd, David R. Jones, Marvin Liebman, and William F. Buckley Jr. to build a program that would educate college students ...
The Scholarship America Dream Award, the organization's newest scholarship program, is a multi-year, performance-based scholarship fund targeted toward postsecondary completion. The scholarship program received its initial funding from proceeds from Katie Couric 's book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives .
The scholarship was started in 1999 as a result of a $1 billion grant from Microsoft founder Bill Gates. [1] The program is currently administered by the United Negro College Fund and partner organizations including the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, [3] APIA Scholars (formerly known as the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund), [4] and Native Forward (formerly known as the American ...
Between 2004 and 2010, the Washington Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit group, administered the program, which was funded at $12 million a year. [1] From 2010-2015, the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation served as the administrator of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship Program, for the pursuit of research and study in the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, for one year at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.