Recent News

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03/15/2010

Deadline approaching this Friday, March 19th.

Questions? Call Tasha Tucker 843-723-3635.


For the 26th year, Coastal Community Foundation announces the availability of various scholarship opportunities and encourages eligible high school seniors residing in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties and planning to pursue a four-year college degree to apply for these awards by March 19, 2010.

Scholarships offered through Coastal Community Foundation have been made possible by the generosity of donors who help students fund their post-secondary education. These donorsí Funds (listed below) have been established to benefit students from particular geographic areas or high schools, for attendance at certain post-secondary institutions, or to enter certain fields of study. Awards of $500 - $10,000 will be made from 23 scholarship funds at the Foundation. In submitting one application, students become candidates for all awards for which they qualify.

ìThe Foundation is pleased to be a resource for students by providing scholarship assistance to help students at least partially fund their education,î said Program Officer Tasha Tucker who manages the Foundationís scholarship funds and competitive program.

Scholarship fund descriptions and applications are available at the Foundationís website http://www.coastalcommunityfoundation.org/nonprofits/scholarships.htmlor from area high school guidance counselors. The application deadline is March 19, 2010.

Funds of Coastal Community Foundation providing scholarships this year are:

Banks-Williams-Banks Fund (for students of Summerville High School)
Burke Promise Fund (for students of Burke High School)
Rufus C. Barkley, Jr. Leadership Scholarship Fund (for any Tri-county or Colleton County
student)
Seymour I. Barkowitz Fund (for students who will attend the College of Charleston)
Thaddeus Bell, II Memorial Scholarship (for students to attend Morehouse College in
Atlanta, Georgia)
Isaiah Bennett Memorial Scholarship (for African-American students in Awendaw-
McClellanville)
Juanita & W. Melvin Brown, Jr. Fund (for Catholic, African-American students)
Charleston First Responders Scholarship (for volunteer or professional members of fire,
police or EMS units, and their immediate dependents)
T.C. Drayton Scholarship Fund (for students of the East Side community of Charleston)
Morris D. Finkelstein Scholarship (for student athletes)
Gadsden Fund (for students in Berkeley and Dorchester counties)
Phillip OíNeill Hanvey Fund (for Charleston County students)
Lawrence A. Holt Scholarship Fund (for African-American seniors at Garrett Academy)
Jefferson Scholarship Endowment (for undergraduate degrees in nursing)
J.C. and Alberta Long Fund (for any Tri-county resident)
Jack C. Muller Fund (for residents of properties owned or managed by the Housing Authority
of the City of Charleston)
Warren O. Pinckney Fund (for any Tri-county resident)
P&B Music Scholarship Fund (for Tri-county African-Americans to major in music)
Esther Lorine Bailey Rivers Fund (for college-bound students who attend Mount Carmel
A.M.E. Church)
Santee Club Fund (for any resident living between McClellanville and the South Santee River)
William Ferguson Seabrook Scholarship Endowment for Morris Brown AME Youth (for
students who attend Morris Brown AME and attended Title I public schools, K-12)
Jasiri Whipper Scholarship Endowment (for African-American seniors who will attend a
historically black college or university or a South Carolina public college)
Wofford College Fund (for students bound for Wofford)