June & July Scholarships

 

Greetings, Scholarship Club Members:

 

BSF extends our congratulations to the remarkable high school graduates headed to college in the fall. Finding and completing scholarship applications is a continuous process that demands consistent effort, sharp focus, and hard work, but the financial freedom it creates is well worth the hustle. Stay driven, stay focused, and let this newsletter be your ultimate guide to unlocking the resources you deserve.

Students should use the summer to build a customized scholarship tracker, search local databases, and complete applications with summer deadlines. With fewer students searching during break, competition for these awards drops dramatically, making it the ideal time to get ahead. 

 

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Scholarships with June and July Deadlines


GoFoodservice Scholarship

Sponsor: GoFoodservice

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: June 15, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who plan to enroll in college at the start of next school year and students who are currently enrolled in a Culinary Arts or Hospitality Management program.

 

Scholarships4mom.net Scholarship

Sponsor: Scholarships4Moms.net

Amount: $10,000.00

Closing Date: June 15, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to legal U.S. residents who are at least 18 years of age and currently enrolled, or will be enrolled within the next three months, in a college or university in the United States. Applicant must be a mother or an expectant mother.

 

Van Nattan-Hansen Scholarship Program

Sponsor: Denver Astronomical Society

Amount: Varies

Closing Date: June 15, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate students who are or will be majoring in astronomy or the physical sciences.

 

WIA Foundation Scholarship

Sponsor: Women in Aerospace Foundation

Amount: $2,000.00

Closing Date: June 17, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to female students of any citizenship or nationality who are rising college juniors or seniors and have an interest in a career in the aerospace field and pursuing a higher education degree in engineering, math, or science.

 

BigSun Scholarship

Sponsor: BigSun Athletics

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: June 19, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to all student athletes who are high school seniors or current college students. Applicant must submit an essay on how their high school sports participation influenced them.

  

First in Family Humanist Scholarship; Freedom From Religion Foundation Forwards Freethought Scholarship

Sponsor: Black Skeptics Los Angeles | Freedom From Religion Foundation

Amount: $5,000.00

Closing Date: June 20, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students of color who identify as agnostic, atheist, humanist and/or secular. Preference will be given to students who are first in their families to go to college and students who are (or have been) in foster care, homeless, undocumented and/or LGBTQ are encouraged to apply. Applicant must provide an admission letter to a two or four-year college.

 

Innovation in Education Scholarship

Sponsor: LaTutors

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: June 20, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in high school or college within the United States with at least 3.0 GPA. Applicant must be a citizen of, permanent resident, or hold a valid student visa in the United States or Canada. Applicant must have designed an innovative project that makes a difference in the lives of others and submit an essay describing the goal of the particular project and provide supporting documentation.

 

Sallie Mae Monthly Sweepstakes

Sponsor: SallieMae

Amount: $2,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are of the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which they reside and who are students, parents, guidance counselors, or financial aid officers at the time of entry. Applicant must complete an online registration form.


Huntington’s College Scholarship Sweepstakes

Sponsor: Huntington Learning Center

Amount: $4,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Sweepstakes is open to high school students and their parents or guardians who are legal residents of the United States.

  

Illustrators of the Future Contest

Sponsor: L. Ron Hubbard Library

Amount: $500

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Contest is open to new and amateur artists who have not been professionally published and paid for more than three black-and-white story illustrations, or more thanone process-color painting, in media distributed broadly to the general public.


Because College is Expensive Scholarship

Sponsor: Cedar Education Lending

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to high school juniors and seniors, adults looking to head back to school, current college students, and anyone else looking to attend college or graduate student. Applicant must fill out a short form.


Café Bustelo El Cafe Del Futuro Scholarship

Sponsor: Cafe Bustelo

Amount: $5,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students who are of Latino descent and enrolled at a four-year HACU-member institution. Applicant must submit an essay on their Latino heritage, family, and community.

 

Courage to Grow Scholarship

Sponsor: Courage To Grow

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to juniors and seniors in high school and college students with a minimum GPA of 2.5. Applicant must explain in 250 words or less why they believe they should be awarded the scholarship.

 

Digital Privacy Scholarship

Sponsor: Digital Responsibility

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to current high school, college, and graduate school students. Home school students are also eligible. Applicant must complete a short form and finish the following statement in 140-characters or less: “I’m taking responsibility for my digital profile by…”

  

Express Medical Supply Scholarship

Sponsor: Express Medical Supply, Inc.

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students enrolled at an accredited two or four-year college in the United States. Applicant must craft a meme capturing a memorable or humorous moment from their time on campus and then explain why this moment stood out to them.

  

Supporting STEM Scholarship

Sponsor: HoshizakiIceMaker.com

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students who have at least a 3.0 GPA and is/will be majoring in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field of study.

 

The Advocates Scholarship

Sponsor: The Advocates Injury Attorneys

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to bicycle safety.

 

Too Cool to Pay for School Scholarship

Sponsor: Access Scholarships

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: June 30, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to high school, college, and graduate school students of all years who are U.S. residents, DACA and undocumented students, or international students currently studying in the U.S.

 

ABC Humane Wildlife Academic Scholarship

Sponsor: ABC Humane Wildlife Control and Prevention, Inc.

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 1, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current female college students studying or planning to study the fields of science, engineering, mathematics, or technology. Applicant must submit an essay on why they are passionate about STEM.

 

AX Control, Inc. Academic Scholarship

Sponsor: AX Control, Inc.

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 1, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to legal residents of the United States who are current undergraduate students. Applicant must submit an essay on the following prompt: “Describe a specific instance where you or someone you know has worked to unite people in your community.”

 

Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards

Sponsor: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Amount: Varies

Closing Date: July 1, 2026

Description: Contest is open to people of all ages. Contestants must submit a poem or poems that explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit. There is no entry fee for youth 12 years of age or under.

 

KB Delta Scholarship Program

Sponsor: KB Delta Mfg

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 1, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in an accredited college. Applicant must submit a personal essay about their education and goals after graduation.

 

Savor Summer College Scholarship

Sponsor: Monica Matthews | How2WinScholarships.com

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: July 1, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. citizens who are rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors with a 3.0 GPA or higher. Applicant must submit an essay explaining how they will be using their summer vacation.

 

 

FMA Scholarship

Sponsor: Maple Flooring Manufactures Association, Inc.

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 11, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college students who will be enrolled during the next academic year. Applicant must submit a personal essay answering one of five given questions. Scholarship is only open to specific majors (too many to list)

 

Scholarship System Scholarship

Sponsor: The Scholarship System

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: July 13, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students who will be enrolled in a college or university for this upcoming fall. Applicant must submit a few shorts personal essays about their education.

 

Come Back Stronger Scholarship

Sponsor: Fasig | Brooks Law Offices

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 15, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students . Applicant must submit an essay that discusses “a life-altering obstacle you faced in your life. This can be an injury, illness, loss of a loved one or any other major event. What did you learn from facing this obstacle, and how did you rise above it?”

 

Future Journalism Teacher Scholarships

Sponsor: Journalism Education Association

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 15, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to education majors who intend to teach scholastic journalism. Applicant must submit a short personal essay, an application form, two recommendation letters, and their college transcript.

 

Vic & Oby Scholarship Fund

Sponsor: Law Offices of Ral Obioha, PLLC

Amount: $500.00

Closing Date: July 15, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college, graduate, and law school students who are foreign-born or have foreign-born parents. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to being an immigrant.

 

First Step Scholarship

Sponsor: Sutliff & Stout

Amount: $1,500.00

Closing Date: July 25, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students who will be attending college during the fall. Applicant must submit an essay on distracted driving habits.

 

BroBasket Scholarship Program

Sponsor: BroBasket

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 31, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current undergraduate and graduate students in the United States. Applicant must submit an essay on the following prompt: “Should the U.S. lower the drinking age to 18?”

 

 

Jet Future Business Leaders Scholarship

Sponsor: Jet Insurance Company

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 31, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current enrolled college students who are interested in pursuing a career in business.

 

Labroots Scholarships

Sponsor: LabRoots

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 31, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students worldwide enrolled or accepted for a graduate or undergraduate degree for the upcoming academic academic year. Applicant must be enrolled in a STEM program.

 

Scholarship for Special Educators

Sponsor: HIE Help Center

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 31, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current undergraduate and graduate students who will be seeing or in the process of completing higher education at an institution in the United States in special education.

 

Spirit of Giving Scholarship

Sponsor: Wine Country Gift Baskets

Amount: $1,000.00

Closing Date: July 31, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to the spirit of giving.

 

Student Activist Scholarships

Sponsor: Secular Student Alliance

Amount: Up to $3,000

Closing Date: July 31, 2026

Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled full-time in a United States middle school, high school, trade school, university of college. Applicant must submit answers to questions related to secularism, as well as two references.

 

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