The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) on Thursday announced the foundation’s 2019-2020 academic scholarship awards and grants to 80 undergraduate and 7 graduate students. Marie Thomas-Griffith, chair of CFVI’s scholarship committee and member of the CFVI board of directors, said, “At CFVI, we are committed to continuing our efforts to increase the level of support available for talented and dedicated Virgin Islands students.”
CFVI said because of the generosity of its donors, the 87 Virgin Islands’ students will receive financial support to attend schools such as George Mason University, Boston University, Drexel University, Florida State University, Berklee College of Music, Temple University, Howard University and the University of the Virgin Islands.
CFVI scholarships and grant awards for this academic cycle total more than $205,000, in amounts ranging from $500 to $5,000. This year, the single largest source of CFVI scholarship support was provided by Heavy Materials, LLC, which awarded $57,500 in scholarships to 23 students.
Also awarded for the first time this year was $17,000 in Next Generation Scholar Grants of $1,000 each to graduating high school seniors who identified themselves as members of a family in which they will be in the first generation who would be college or university graduates. CFVI said it believes that equal access to higher education is a key to making positive change within the community, and is honored to be able to provide this additional support to dedicated students.
According to the release, since 1996 the foundation has awarded an increasing number of scholarships. To date, more than $3 million has been awarded in scholarships to over 1,000 Virgin Islands students. This year the foundation is pleased to report the establishment of 12 new scholarships to be awarded for the first time.
CFVI is encouraging families, organization or business is interested in providing scholarships to consider establishing a fund at the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands. The scholarship application, review, and award process is managed by the foundation, it said. All you need to do is name your fund and begin fundraising for 2020.
Because of CFVI's angel donors, scholarship funds at the foundation are able to operate without any administrative fees. Angels make annual gifts of $500 or more to the foundation, CFVI said.
2019 Scholarship recipients:
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