Single Parent Scholarship Fund
Single Parent Scholarship Fund for Financial Assistance
Single Parent Scholarship Fund(SPSF) is the affiliate of the Fund called 'Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund' throughout the whole state. They used to help the single mothers who want to go to their school back and get certification completed.
Single Parents Scholarships
If you are single parent family and want to go to college back, this foundation will help you out in this regard and provide financial assistance to you to further your education. They represent over 70 counties. This program runs in Northwest Arkansas, Benton County and specially server Madison and Washington counties and Fort Smith region.
SPSF affiliates have been granted a total 31,000 scholarships worth $17 million yet. They provide lot of thing with single mother scholarships like mentoring, job, coaching, gifts etc. There is an another affiliates found in Washington called NWA(Northwest Arkansas) which also used to support single parent family and used to provide grant. If you want to get a grant, you can apply for a financial assistance to these affiliates.
They mainly focus on the living standard of the their children and way out from their proverty.
Mission of the Single Parent Scholarship Fund and NWA
1. Educate the Single Parent
2. Way out the Children from poverty
Information from The City Wire
College Scholarships and Grants for Single Mothers
According to US news, College is very expensive now a day. It has 4 years degree program worth $30,000 per year, now the big question is that, how Single mothers can further their education at college. They are not financial fit to give $30,000 per year for their college education. College fees are too high to paid.
Single mother does not have too income, so they do have to take loan over it. I am going to tell you one thing. Do not take loan and put yourself into debt, you can think about various Government Grant program which you do not have to repay.
There are some Grants opportunities for students
1. The Gate Millennium Scholars Program[www.gmsp.org/]
2. Federal Pell Grants[www.ed.gov/programs/fpg/]
3. The American Dream Scholarship[www.mdc.edu/main/americandream/]
5. Best Buy Scholarships[www.bestbuy-communityrelations.com/scholarship.htm]
6. Dell Scholars Program[www.dellscholars.org/]
The above mentioned Grants and Scholarships program will help you out to pay your college fees. You can check the eligibility and Application process online.
National Society for Women Engineers(SWE) Scholarship
The SWE(Society of Women Engineers) is one of the good foundation for single mothers. It is founded in 1950 and is a non profit organization in US. The organization supports a women to be an engineer. They give full powers to women to be success and provide scholarships. This organization is a leaders in his department and 21,000 members yet.
It is one of the good non profit organization in US. It has granted 188 new and total $540,000 renewed value.
There are number of scholarships available in this organization as follows:
1. Accenture Scholarships
2. Ada. I. Pressman Memorial Scholarships
3. Anne Maureen Whitney Barrow Memorial Scholarship
Full at http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php/scholarships#activePanels_0
The aim of the SWE is to provide full potential in their careers as engineers and leaders, encourage a women to grab further education for higher education.
It offers all levels, from K-12 and college scholarships for single mothers. Visit GSEScholarships.com for more updated grants and scholarships news.