Scholarships African Americans Should Apply For

I know that all have had a student ask for financial help for school the week before they are to enroll.  The day a child enters kindergarten is about 4 years behind the day a child should be aware they need to help finance their education. The parent must know they are going to educate their child for greatness.  You do not begin thinking about money for a house the day you apply for the loan.

So start early getting your child seeking support for their education. Know what scholarship funders are looking for. If it is leadership skills make sure your child has them, if it is good grades, make sure they have them. Many times the advantage is to be low income which means parents must think from the mind of a person with fewer funds not from a poverty mentality.  Poor is a state of being poverty is a state of mind.

Even if you do not have a child, keep this list and share it with parents who do. They should know every requirement of every grantor. I have a grand child in fifth grade and plan for him to write to each of these scholarships and tell them that he is going to ask for one in 5 or 6 years and do they have any suggestion that can assure he gets one. lol

Scholarships Going to Waste      Please Share AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE NOT APPLYING! Even if you do not have a college-aged child at home, please share this with someone who does, pass this scholarship information on to anyone and everyone that comes to mind. Though there are a number of companies and organizations that have donated monies for scholarships use to African Americans, a great deal of the money is being returned because of a lack of interest. No one is going to knock on our doors and ask if we can use a scholarship. Take the initiative to get your children involved. There is no need for money to be returned to donating companies because we fail to apply for it. Please pass this information on to family members, nieces, nephews, friends with children etc. We must get the word out that money is available. If you are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be. Our youth really could use these scholarships. Thanks! (If clicking on the link doesn't work, copy and paste the URL in your web browser.) 1) BELL LABS FELLOWSHIPS FOR UNDER REPRESENTED MINORITIES http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/CRFP/info.html 2) Student Inventors Scholarships http://www.invent.org/collegiate http://www.invent.org/collegiate/ 3) Student Video Scholarships http://www.christophers.org/vidcon2k.html 4) Coca-Cola Two Year College Scholarships http://www.coca-colaschola/rs.org/programs.html 5) Holocaust Remembrance Scholarships http://holocaust.hklaw.com/ 6) Ayn Rand Essay Scholarships http://www.aynrand.org/contests/ 7) Brand Essay Competition http://www.instituteforbrandleadership.org/IBLEssayContest-2002Rules.htm 8) Gates Millennium Scholarships (major) http://www.gmsp.org/nominationmaterials/read.dbm?ID=12 9) Xerox Scholarships for Students http://www2.xerox.com/go/xrx/about_xerox/about_xerox_detail.jsp 10) Sports Scholarships and Internships http://www.ncaa.org/about/scholarships.html 11) National Assoc. of Black Journalists Scholarships (NABJ) http://www.nabj.org/html/studentsvcs.html 12) Saul T. Wilson Scholarships (Veterinary) http://www.aphis.usda.gov/mb/mrphr/jobs/stw.html 13) Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund http://www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org/sk_v6.cfm 14) FinAid: The Smart Students Guide to Financial Aid Scholarships http://www.fina/id.org/ 15) Presidential Freedom Scholarships http://www.nationalservice.org/scholarships/ 16) Microsoft Scholarship Program http://www.microsoft.com/college/scholarships/minority.asp 17) WiredScholar Free Scholarship Search h ttp://www.wiredscholar.com/paying/scholarship_search/pay_scholarship _search.jsp 18) Hope Scholarships &Lifetime Credits http://www.ed.gov/inits/hope/ 19) William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship for Minority Students http://www.apsanet.org/PS/grants/aspen3.cfm 20) Multiple List of Minority Scholarships http://gehon.ir.miami.edu/financial-assistance/Scholarship/blackhtml 21) Guaranteed Scholarships http://www.guaranteed-scholarships.com/ 22) BOEING scholarships (soma e HBCU connects) http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/educationrelations/scholarships 23) Easley National Scholarship Program http://www.naas.org/senior.htm 24) Maryland Artists Scholarships http://www.maef.org/ 26) Jacki Tuckfield Memorial Graduate Business Scholarship (for AA students in South Florida ) http://www.jackituckfield.org/ 27) Historically Black College & University Scholarships http://www.iesabroad.org/info/hbcu.htm 28) Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students http://www.beanactuary.org/minority/scholarships.htm 29) International Students Scholarships & Aid Help http://www.iefa.org/ 30) College Board Scholarship Search http://cbweb10p.collegeboard.org/fundfinder/html/fundfind01.html 31) Burger King Scholarship Program http://www.bkscholars.csfa.org/ 32) Siemens Westinghouse Competition http://www.siemens-foundationorg/ 33) GE and LuLac Scholarship Funds http://www.lulac.org/Programs/Scholar.html 34) CollegeNet ' s Scholarship Database http://mach25.collegenet.com/cgi-bin/M25/index 35) Union Sponsored Scholarships and Aid http://www.aflcioorg/scholarships/scholar.htmarships/scholar.htm 36) Federal Scholarships & Aid Gateways 25 Scholarship Gateways from Black Excel http://www.blackexcel.org/25scholarships.htm 37) Scholarship &Financial Aid Help http://www.blackexcel.org/fin-sch.htm-sch.htm 38) Scholarship Links (Ed Finance Group) http://www.efg.net/link_scholarship.htm 39) FAFSA On The Web (Your Key Aid Form &Info) http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ 40) Aid &Resources For Re-Entry Students http://www.back2college.com/ 41) Scholarships and Fellowships http://www.osc.cuny.edu/sep/links.html 42) Scholarships for Study in Paralegal Studies http://www.paralegals.org/Choice/2000west.htm 43) HBCU Packard Sit Abroad Scholarships (for study around the world) http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/packard_nomination.html 44) Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities http://ccmi.uchicago.edu/schl1.html 45) INROADS internships http://www.inroads.org/ 46) ACT-SO EUR Olympics of the Mind "A Scholarships http://www.naacp.org/work/actso/act-so.shtml 47) Black Alliance for Educational Options Scholarships http://www.baeo.org/options/privatelyfinanced.jsp 48) ScienceNet Scholarship Listing http://www.sciencenet.emory.edu/undergrad/scholarships.html 49) Graduate Fellowships For Minorities Nationwide http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=MINORITIESIES 50) RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS AT OXFORD http://www.rhodesscholar.org/info.html 51) The Roothbert Scholarship Fund http://www.roothbertfund.com

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

African American Children in Washington State suffer the lowest outcomes in our public schools. Under the radar and in unusual places African Americans  and others committed to abolishing school failure are actively committed to :  

"Take a Leap With African American Students."  

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

Three generations of Fear No Number Math Saturday AcademyLearners

Parent and child at an African American community meeting 

THE NAME MAXINE MIMMS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH EXCELLENCE

FRIENDS OF DAWN MASON STRATEGY SESSION

WA BLACK EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE WENT TO THE LEGISLATURE

VILLAGE BABY HOLDS COURT WITH GRANDFATHERS
HER PINK THRONE KEEPS THEM FOCUSED

In Honor of TJ Vassar, Seattle Educator

In Memory of T.J. Vassar who won his battle to live for the good of thousands of brown, black and poor white children who deserve an equitable and excellent education. Thank you T.J. for LEEP, a program he expanded as Director of Diversity at Lakeside School.
Thousands of children benefitted, including my own from his leadership as a Seattle School Director and at the prestigious private school. He was known as a parent teacher and education administrator who was unapologetic about his belief in African American children's abilities to be excellent. And in all he did as an African American student, academic, School Board Director and Director of Diversity bringing African Americans along with other non white, children he was unapologetically committed to the community that raised him. So in honor of TJ, I am increasing my personal commitment to the education of African American children with the campaign:

Take A Leap For African American Students.

Take a Leap for African American Students is a personal challenge, a cultural shift, a competition more difficult than any of the many political campaigns I have run.  Difficult because There is no place in Seattle and King County for running campaigns dedicated to African American children. There are silos of initiatives which are great efforts, but after a quarter of a century they have made some movement but must combine to take the leap our children need. These silos are becoming a movement strategized and energized. Placing African American children on the back of the bus of education is no longer tolerated.

What started as gatherings and individual meetings during the past two years has exploded into a  campaign for African American children in their role as students. We know that once we get a win for their education, their path will lead to excellence. Given an equal and fair chance, African Americans always excel. I is the genetic energy that is our legacy from having been America's slaves. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and African American, explains why we can not win in environment when if we have 5 and whites have 4 they win.  This reminds me of the title We Must Run While They Walk, the memoir of Mwalimu (Teacher)  Julius Nyerere the first and four term President of Independent Tanzania. I am a student of his education reform thinking for the post colonial Tanzania and other formerly colonized nations in the world. I will speak more about this in another blog entry.

Take A Leap With African American Students challenges assumptions that they are too difficult to teach, combats the insult of low expectations, and builds capacity for parents as coach and manager of their children's education and that their education is primarily for the purpose of passing tests developed for a minority white student population. Non white children dominate the Seattle Schools enrollment.  Education should elevated all people to be self discovers,  not just to substantiate an inferior status. White privileged students do better on these tests because they were written for them to pass. The education system is established for them to succeed beyond all other students.

This campaign for equity and excellence for African American children benefits from the determination and actions of the late TJ Vassar whose life commitment inspires me. He inspired my politics, and the ways that a former elected official gives back to those who made their elections possible. TJ never forgot the mission or the people who put him in position to make a tangible difference.

The Campaign is graced with an honorary chair, Dr Maxine Mimms. Dr Mimms is TJ's Vassar's elementary school teacher, and first African American full time teacher in Seattle Public Schools. She is a consummate educator and legacy builder and has never apologized for believing in and bringing African American children and adults to excellence. Though committed to the education of African Americans, so many of all races and cultures know her as their favorite teacher. At the 2011 Annual Fish Fry, TJ recognized Dr. Mimms as his favorite teacher and she recognized him as a teacher's pet an affection well placed.

We are joined by abolitionists from a variety of races and cultures, in keeping with the ways that TJ took a leap for Lakeside School and created a majority minority enrollment.  There are many who are intent in their own purpose of bringing equity to teaching and learning.  My favorite movement for freedom and the march toward equal justice in the USA is the abolitionist and Underground railroad movement that existed prior to the civil War. Even as above ground the way that freedom of the slaves could and would occur, underground slaves by the thousands were being moved to freedom through a secreted network of conductors and safe houses. As a student, of Dr. Maxine Mimms and Dr. Joye Hardiman I studied freedom movements and the abolitionist movement and the underground railroad are my favorite.

On January 25, 2013 Wmaimu TJ Vassar, a champion for equality in education, passed over into pure energy and thousands of children and parents are the beneficiaries of his legend. I can think of no better way to honor his life and the life of  the many educators who believed in African American students and their worthiness than to Take A Leap With African American Students.