Scholarships for DACA and Undocumented Students
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Scholarships 2024/2025
Scholarship Name: La Unidad Latina Foundation
Amount: $2,000
Description: Scholarship is open for undergraduate and graduate school applicants.
Eligible Countries: Must reside in the United States as of time of application.
Due Date: March 31, 2025
Scholarship Name: Denes I. Bardos Award
Amount: $1000
Description: The scholarship is open to immigrants to the United States who are either high school seniors or college freshmen applicants.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: May 1, 2025
Scholarship Name: LULAC National Scholarship
Amount: $2,000
Description: Must be a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or be granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Must have applied to or be enrolled as a full-time student in a college or university, including 2-year colleges, or vocational schools that lead to an associate’s degree. Graduate students must have applied to or be enrolled as a part-time student in a college or university.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: May 1, 2025
Scholarship Name: Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance Scholarship
Amount: $2,500
Description: The scholarship is only available to undocumented students with or without Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS), who reside in Indiana, demonstrate financial need, and are pursuing higher education.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: April 23, 2025
Scholarship Name: Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund (DPSF)
Amount: $15,000
Description: Applicants must be enrolled in a college, university, or a trade/technical program. Active participation in movements for social and economic justice is a key eligibility criterion.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: April 1, 2025
Scholarship Name: Chicana Latina Foundation Scholarship
Amount: $1,500
Description: Applicants must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible to apply: Self-identify as a Chicana and/or Latina; Be enrolled in an accredited college, university, or community college in one of the following California counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, San Francisco, Sonoma, or Yolo Have lived at least two years in one of the above Northern California counties at the time of application.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: March 31, 2025
Scholarship Name: HOLA Microsoft Scholarship
Amount: $20,000
Description: Applicants must be a U.S. based, high school senior of Hispanic and Latinx descent (for example, Mexican American, Cuban American, Brazilian, etc) of an accredited organization. Be a U.S. citizen, permanent legal resident or be an individual granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA).
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: March 13, 2025
Scholarship Name: Dr. Amanda Perez Scholarship
Amount: Varies
Description: Applicants must be a high school and college freshman students who are interested in pursuing a career in medicine.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: February 16, 2025
Scholarship Name: Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program
Amount: $1,000
Description: We seek rising seniors, bachelor’s degree holders, and those currently in terminal M.A. programs, who are United States citizens, permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens with DACA.Please note, those who are currently applying to enroll in a doctoral program for Fall 2024 are ineligible to participate in MICHHERS.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: February 12, 2025
Scholarship Name: The Dream Project $3,500 Scholarship
Amount: $3,500
Description: Applicants must be a graduate or will graduate from Virginia high school and born outside the United States and whose immigration status (undocumented, DACA, TPS, or asylum applicant) creates barriers to success in college
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: February 1, 2025
Scholarship Name: Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Amount: $5,000
Description: Applicants must be if Hispanic Heritage, U.S citizen, permanent legal resident, or DACA. Have a minimum of 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent) for high school students; minimum of 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent) for college and graduate students and plan enroll full-time in an accredited, public or not-for-profit, four-year university, or graduate school, in the US, for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: February 15, 2025
Scholarship Name: Leadership 1000 Scholarship
Amount: $5,000
Description: The Leadership 1000 Scholarship awards funding to certain high school seniors attending eligible high schools or students enrolled in CSF’s College Services who are enrolled or planning to enroll in a Washington state college or university.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: November 30, 2024
Scholarship Name: Point Flagship Scholarship
Amount: Varies
Description: Applicants must be at least a senior in high school and must be enrolled or intending to enroll at an accredited college or university based in the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: December 5, 2024
Scholarship Name: Cooke Foundation College Scholarship Program
Amount: $55,000
Description: Applicants must be a high school senior planning to graduate from a U.S. high school and must be intending to enroll full-time in an accredited four-year college in the fall.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: November 14, 2024
Scholarship Name: California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation
Amount: $6,500
Description: Applicants must be a full time student (undergraduate or graduate) in good academic standing at an accredited college or university, or be a graduating high school senior with written proof of acceptance at an accredited institution of higher learning.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: June 1, 2025
Scholarship Name: Esperanza Education Fund
Amount: $20,000
Description: Applicants must have been born outside the U.S. OR have two parents who were born outside the U.S., a graduating senior at a high school in the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia OR have earned a GED within the last four years and reside in District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia, or must plan to enroll full-time in an accredited, public two-year community college or four-year university in the US for the academic year.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: April 1, 2025
Scholarship Name: HACU Scholarship Program
Amount: Varies
Description: The HACU National Internship Program is open to all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, disability, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, or veteran status. Applicants must have authorization or eligibility to work in the United States by law (HACU participates in E-verify).
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: November 1, 2024
Scholarship Name: Help to Save Scholarship
Amount: $1,500
Description: This scholarship is open to high school and college students of all nationalities. High School students must be 15 years old at least and provide an Enrollment Certificate. College students interested in participating in the scholarship program must be enrolled at an accredited university or college and 18 years or older. Open to high school and college students of the United States or Canada for the current school year.
Eligible Countries: United States, Canada
Due Date: October 10, 2025
Scholarship Name: Girls Impact the World Film Festival Scholarship
Amount: $5,000
Description: Applicants must be between 13 and 25 years old. Available to U.S. citizens.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: October 14, 2024
Scholarship Name: $500 Easy Scholarship: Uncensored: Hispanic Heritage Month
Amount: $500
Description: Applicants must be between ages of 13 and 25 years old and lives in the U.S. (or are a U.S. citizen, but living abroad).
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: October 15, 2024
Scholarship Name: Video Contest Scholarship for Creative Students
Amount: $1500
Description: Applicants must be current high school, college, or university students from any country. The winners will be required to send us proof of their academic status or enrollment.
Eligible Countries: United States, International
Due Date: October 31, 2024
Scholarship Name: ACES Scholarships
Amount: $1,500
Description: Applicants for all ACES scholarships must be seeking degrees as enrolled college/university juniors, seniors, or graduate students at the time of the deadline.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: November 15, 2024
Scholarship Name: $1,000 Easy Scholarship: 50 Bottles, 1 Goal
Amount: $1,000
Description: This generation knows just how important recycling is, but we did some digging, and we fear some of us might be losing the plot. Did you know 73% of the US have access to recycling, yet only 43% of households are participating? Collect and recycle a minimum of 50 plastic bottles (roughly the equivalent of 1lb of plastic), and you could earn volunteer credits and a $1,000 scholarship!
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: November 30, 2024
Scholarship Name: $500 Easy Scholarship: Talking Trash
Amount: $500
Description: We all know recycling is a big deal, but less than half of us are actually doing it. Sure, most of us believe recycling helps, but it’s confusing—and sometimes we’re not even sure we’re doing it right. And get this: young people like us recycle even less, even though we care about the planet! Test your knowledge of basic recycling facts, and learn how to reduce waste in your community. You could earn a $500 scholarship for taking the quiz and sharing your results with your friends!
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: November 30, 2024
Scholarship Name: Dreams Without Borders Scholarship
Amount: $1,000
Description: Applicants must come from an immigrant family, be at least 17 years of age or older, be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or DACA recipient, be enrolled in an accredited law school in the United States for the Spring 2025 semester.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: December 16, 2024
Scholarship Name: Science Ambassador Scholarship
Amount: $20,000
Description: It's easy! Film a three–minute educational video of yourself explaining a STEM topic you're passionate about. You must be a high school senior or an undergraduate college student to apply.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: December 16, 2024
Scholarship Name: MoolahSPOT $1,000 Scholarship
Amount: $1,000
Description: Any student at least 16 years or older who plans to attend, or is currently attending, college or graduate school. Students may be of any nationality and reside in any country. Students may study any major or plan to enter any career field at any accredited college or graduate school. Although applicants can be from any country, all applications must be completed in English.
Eligible Countries: Domestic, International
Due Date: December 31, 2024
Scholarship Name: Too Cool to Pay for School Scholarship
Amount: $1,000
Description: Open to all current high school, college, and graduate students, US residents, DACA and undocumented students, and international students currently studying in the US.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: December 31, 2024
Scholarship Name: National Scholarship for High School and Community College Graduates
Amount: $33,000
Description: Applications are open to undocumented immigrant students with or without DACA or TPS who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 and before Nov. 1, 2018. Have graduated or will graduate from a United States high school (or have earned or will earn a high school equivalency diploma) before the Fall of 2024.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: February 28, 2025
Scholarship Name: Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Amount: $90,000
Description: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Each year, we invest in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field. Each Fellow receives up to $90,000 in financial support over two years, and they join a lifelong community of New American Fellows.
Eligible Countries: United States
Due Date: October 31, 2024
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