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.
The Haworth Skilled Trade Scholarship and the Haworth Diversity Scholarship is for college sophomores or juniors. Apply online by 5 p.m. Wednesday, February 15, 2017. Applications must include an essay of 500 words or less responding to the prompt:
Have you experienced a moment of epiphany, as if your eyes were opened to something you were previously blind to? Describe that moment and your reflections. Epiphany defined as : “a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way.”
Applications must also include a copy of your most recent academic transcript; a copy of your ACT/SAT score transcript or other college entrance score transcript, if available; and résumé (Haworth Diversity Scholarship and Internship Award applicants only).
Mike Goorhouse is President and CEO of the Foundation and 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.”
March 1 is the deadline for the other 85 scholarships. A full list of scholarships is online.
