Area students are encouraged to get their applications in for the Central Kentucky Community Foundation’s wide range of scholarships available on Scholarship Central.
“These are not federally or state-funded scholarships,” said CKCF Communications Coordinator Erin Hahn. “These are scholarships that donors who just have a passion for education, wanting to pay it forward to our local students. Graduating high school seniors, or current college students, or even those nontraditional students, we have scholarships for all of them.”
More than 150 scholarships worth a combined $350,000 are available to students, all of them accessible by completing one application.
“Based on those answers, you’ll get a list of scholarships that you’re eligible for, and at that point, you may need to do an additional essay or maybe a letter of recommendation, something of that nature, so even though the deadline is 11.59 p.m. on March 1, make sure to do it a little bit beforehand,” Hahn said.
Scholarships are available for students in all of the nine counties in the Community Foundation’s service area.
“Those graduating high school seniors, do not feel like you have to be in the top two percentile academically in your class,” Hahn said. “A lot of these scholarships are merit-based. Your community involvement, what you’ve done while you’ve been in school, you know, so many of these kiddos have achieved so much. This is your time to showcase it.”
Start your application by clicking on the Scholarship Central Login link in the top left corner of the homepage at www.ckcf4people.org. Contact the Community Foundation at 270-737-8393 for more information and assistance.
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