Women's Forum Educational Award
The Education Fund of the Women's Forum provides annual Awards to encourage mature women of need to fulfill their potential through the pursuit of an undergraduate college education and to enhance their capacities to provide productive and supportive service to their communities. The Award recognizes extraordinary and often heroic effort in overcoming adversity and the most daunting of odds in restructuring lives for success.
Since 1987 the recipients of these Awards have provided inspiration to those who have come to know and admire their determination. Virtually all have successfully earned college degrees; many have gone on to Masters degrees, particularly in the fields of education and social work
Awards of five thousand dollars ($5,000) will be given in the 2006-2007 academic year to women who, after interrupting their education, are now pursuing undergraduate college degrees. They must be residents of New York City, attend colleges in New York City at least half-time, and shall not have qualified for graduation before December, 2007. The deadline for applications and supporting materials is December 1, 2006. The application is available online at http://www.wfnewyork.org/application_form.cfm.
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