DuPage County’s Department of Community Services announced Wednesday that the deadline to apply for a CSBG scholarship has been extended.
Support documents and applications must now be received by 4:30 p.m. May 18.
The previous deadline was today.
The scholarship, administered by the County’s Department of Community Services, is a federally funded program through the state of Illinois. [...]

The new scheme was partly created by Joel Cadbury in memory of his mother d’Abo who died of cancer in 2003. She was best known for her success in turning stationery company Ryman from an unprofitable chain into a business which sold for £20m in 1987.
The scholarships will allow participants to take part in the [...]

Amelia Feathers may be gone, but she is most definitely not forgotten. Betty Jo Spence has made sure of that.
Spence was a teacher, mentor and a friend to Feathers, who passed away in January 2005. Spence created the Amelia Feathers Memorial Scholarship which was awarded Thursday night for the first time ever to Dre’Van Platt, [...]

The VA Mortgage Center.com has announced the three winners of its first annual Military Education Scholarship Program. The winners, John Parker, Stacey Lang, and Ann Marie Little will each receive $1,000 from the VA Mortgage Center.com to be used towards educational funding.
The scholarships were awarded based on essays written on the topic, “Why I Chose [...]

A Kansas man who received the heart of a 14-year-old Glencoe boy is establishing a scholarship for a graduating senior at Glencoe High School.
Steve Lewis of Haven, Kansas, presented the first 500-dollar scholarship yesterday in memory of Roger “Bubba” Porter junior.
Porter died with his 6-year-old brother and his stepfather in an auto accident six years [...]

Applications are now available for the Moriarty Scholarship. This scholarship was established in memory of William J. Moriarty, Jr. whose vision of learning through the arts was responsible for establishing the Rensselaer Children’s Summer Theatre now known as The Fendig Summer Theatre for Children.
The scholarship fund has been established to continue this vision of learning [...]

The Oakland-Promise Land Scholarship Board of Trustees recently announced plans to award a scholarship to a resident living in the Marion County portion of Oakland or Promise Land communities. Applications are available at Mountain Home High School and the following Oakland businesses:, Oakland Oasis, Oakland Library and The Barn Cafe.
The deadline for applying is [...]

Fundraising is continuing for the Cpl. Timothy J. Lauer Scholarship and the first scholarship is expected to be awarded in spring 2008.
Lauer, 25, was killed Oct. 14, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq, while on a convoy resupply mission. He served with the U.S. Army’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division [...]

The family of a woman killed in a crash on New Circle Road last month is setting up a scholarship fund in her memory.
Sima Maiti, 26, died April 25 when a car came across the median and hit her car on New Circle Road. LEX 18 talked with her family about a new plan [...]

The Joe Lurie Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Fellowship was launched at the UC Berkeley International House’s 19th Annual Celebration & Awards Gala Thursday.
The fund aims at providing an I-House room and board award to an entering first year returned Peace Corps doctoral student at UC Berkeley. The UC Berkeley Graduate Division will match this annually [...]

Freshman Amanda Hordendorf (Topton, Pa./Brandywine Heights) of the Lock Haven University field hockey team was recently awarded the inaugural Domino’s Athletics Scholarship by Jim and Zonda Gregory, owners and operators of the Lock Haven Domino’s Pizza restaurant.
The Gregory’s have sent up a $10,000 scholarship to benefit LHU student athletes majoring in business.
Jim and Zonda understand [...]

Aabcor Inc. is calling for applications for its inaugural scholarship program. The program offers two scholarships to people whose lives have been impacted by Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and who seek further education.
The Aabcor scholarships:
* Are open to any adult or child in the Chicagoland area (Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry, Kane, [...]