Our Programs - Scholarships
Students who have been stigmatized, isolated, or closeted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity often lack critical family, financial, and community support. Encouraging them to continue their education can be very challenging. Too often, individuals of great promise give up because they don't think anyone believes in them or cares what they have to contribute. Scholarships that clearly say, "this is for you" can make a huge difference.
Pride Foundation also recognizes students who may not be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, but who have contributed to the LGBT community. These may be the children of LGBT parents, or just friends of our community whose leadership skills we want to foster.
Our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight-allied scholarship program is one of the largest of its kind in the country. We partner with the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA), to administer and award scholarships. Together Pride Foundation and GSBA have awarded more than $2.2 million to over 750 recipients since 1991.
Click here to read about our 2008-09 Scholars .
The application for scholarships for the 2009-10 school year are due on January 23, 2009 and the application is available now !
You can also find out about other educational scholarships for LGBT students by following this link!
