Monday, April 30, 2007

Latino College Dollars

I found this accidentally while looking for scholarships for women.

LatinoCollegeDollars.org - Scholarships For California's Latino Students

Right from LCD website:

ABOUT US
The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute

This website is an initiative of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI), a nonprofit organization that advances informed policy on key issues affecting Latino communities through objective and timely research contributing to the betterment of the nation.

TRPI is an affiliated research unit of the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and is associated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University.

The Scholarship ProjectIn 2005, The Walt Disney Company commissioned a TRPI study titled College Scholarships for Latino Students: Are Opportunities Being Missed?, which found that online scholarship information was plentiful but often outdated, not actively disseminated, and in English only.

In November 2006, with funding from The Sallie Mae Fund, The Walt Disney Company, and Southern California Edison, TRPI was able to develop an inaugural 2005/2006 printed scholarship directory. This directory listed all the regional organizations that TRPI could identify which award grants and scholarships targeting eligible California Latino students.

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