Kathi Joy Wiley Scholarship

Eligibility

Kathi Joy Wiley Scholarship, with an application deadline in April, offers 4 awards of $2500 each. Location restrictions exist. Restricted to those with financial need.

Description

The Kathi Joy Wiley Scholarship has a strong interest in supporting the most marginalized populations of students that are pursuing any post-secondary education pathway, including all the following: degrees, certificates, proficiencies, or hands-on career skill building. Career pursuits can be anything from Pre-Medicine or Welder, to Certified Truck Driver, or Tattoo Artist, and the list of career pursuits is endless. Applicants must be residents of southwest Washington who are or have been affected by any of, but not limited to, the following circumstances: being a single parent or a widow; being a foster youth or young adult who have aged out of the foster care system (formal or informal); incarceration of self or parents; being an immigrant or refugee, or second-generation immigrant or refugee; living in poverty; have experienced instability in housing and/or being unhoused; living with a disability (developmental, intellectual neurodivergent, physical) or have behavioral issues; recovery from addiction or affected by addiction; identify as LGBTQ2S+; and being a survivor of domestic violence, gender violence, and/or child abuse. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington for more information.