Foundation for Fresno Unified Students opens application for Fresno Unified Scholarship up to $4,500

The minimum assistance is $1,000, the maximum is $4,500 and wealth is dispersed straight to the pupil to usage arsenic they spot fit.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Now that the outpouring semester has started, graduation is conscionable a fewer abbreviated months away.

Fresno Unified people of 2025 students looking to proceed their acquisition aft precocious schoolhouse tin commencement applying present to person currency for college.

"We are present for students, we are astir students and everything we bash has a done enactment to serving our students," Executive Officer for Foundation for Fresno Unified Students Linda Laettner said.

The Foundation for Fresno Unified Students opened up applications earlier this period for the FUSD Scholarship.

Any elder successful the territory who is going to commercialized oregon method school, assemblage college, four-year college, oregon the subject is eligible.

"What we're truly focusing connected is helping motorboat those students to success," Laettner said.

On the application, students volition beryllium asked to stock astir their extracurricular activities.

They'll besides beryllium asked to respond to 2 effort questions.

The applications are past judged based connected an extended rubric scoring process.

The minimum assistance is $1,000, the maximum is $4,500 and wealth is dispersed straight to the pupil to usage arsenic they spot fit.

"If they request a book, they request a laptop oregon they request a parking pass. They are successful complaint of that post-secondary journey, and we are capable to assistance them on the way," Linda Laettner said.

Last year, the Foundation for Fresno Unified Students had much than 600 assistance applicants.

The instauration awarded $424,000 successful scholarships to astir fractional of those students and galore of the recipients.

Laettner says she hopes students proceed to use truthful the instauration tin assistance enactment their acquisition goals.

The deadline to use is March 16.

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