HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – Over 230 scholarships and approximately $600,000 in scholarships are awarded every year through the Community Foundation of the Holland Zeeland area.
The foundation manages more than 85 different scholarship funds for graduating high school seniors with several awarded to students already in college and adults going back to school.
Mike Goorhouse is President and CEO of the Foundation and says there are some new scholarships students can apply for. “These are individuals and companies who have given their own resources investing in kids they do not know. These are individuals who have said education is important to me, my family and we want to help invest in the education of others.”
Goorhouse says you don’t have to be an A student to receive a scholarship. “That is not true. In fact there are scholarships in the Foundation that are very much targeted not to that and focus on other criteria. We have folks who say ‘I wasn’t an A student and what I want to invest in is that B student who is still trying to find their way and is still trying to figure out what’s next and who shows a lot of promise.’ Some are focused on volunteerism.”
The Haworth Skilled Trade Scholarship and the Haworth Diversity Scholarship is for college sophomores or juniors. Apply online by 5 p.m. February 15, 2017.
The Cathy Geerlings “Indomitable Spirit” Scholarship assists hourly workers from the Holland/Zeeland area who are employed in manufacturing, skilled trades, semi-skilled trades or other production-related areas as they pursue post-secondary education. Apply online by 5 p.m. March 1, 2017.
January is scholarship month and now is the time to start applying as most have a March 1st deadline. A list of scholarships is available online.
