About
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. The foundation provides scholarships and grants to support high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds, offering support from middle school through graduate school. Their programs include the Young Scholars Program, College Scholarship Program, and Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, along with grants focused on academic achievement, college access and excellence, and support for young artists.
Funding Opportunities
Young Scholars Program
The Cooke Young Scholars Program is a selective five-year, pre-college scholarship for exceptionally promising 7th grade students with financial need. It provides comprehensive academic and college advising, as well as financial support for school, Cooke-sponsored summer programs, internships, and other learning enrichment opportunities. Educational Advisers support Young Scholars to maximize high school experiences and to go on to thrive at the nation's top-performing colleges. The program includes identifying an appropriately rigorous high school, engaging in four-year planning and goal-setting, funding for academic and extracurricular opportunities such as music and art lessons, supplemental academic classes and technology, annual summer programs including two required Young Scholar programs, year-round community programming, and networking opportunities with a high-achieving peer community. To date, the program has served 1,281 scholars with 98% enrolling in a four-year college or university.
Cooke College Scholarship Program
The Cooke College Scholarship Program is an undergraduate scholarship program available to high-achieving high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend and graduate from the nation's top four-year colleges and universities. Each award is intended to cover a significant share of the student's educational experience including tuition, living expenses, books and required fees. Awards vary by individual based on the cost of tuition as well as other grants or scholarships they may receive. This highly competitive scholarship provides last dollar funding after all institutional aid, with awards up to $55,000 per year to pursue a bachelor's degree at any accredited undergraduate institution. Scholars also receive personal advising about selecting a college, navigating financial aid, and transitioning to college to maximize the student experience.
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- jkcf.org
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