Cleveland - Applications for the Mayor Frank G. Jackson Scholarship Program are open now through March 27th, 2020.
About the Scholarship
The Mayor Frank G. Jackson Scholarship Program was created by the City of Cleveland in 2007 to provide scholarship funds to the following individuals:
1.City employees
2.Dependents of City employees
3.High school seniors graduating from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District
4.High school seniors in the Youth Development Program or involved with the City of Cleveland Department of Recreation
The program provides scholarships of $1,000 per year for up to four years. Selected scholarship recipients must be a full-time (minimum 12 credit hours each term) student at a four-year, public or private, not-for-profit higher education institution.
Scholarships are renewable for up to three additional years from the first awarded academic year. To be eligible for renewal of the scholarship, students must maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA and full-time status.
The City of Cleveland’s Mayor Frank G. Jackson Scholarship program is administered through College Now Greater Cleveland. For questions about the scholarship applications, please contact College Now Greater Cleveland at 216-635-0324.
To learn more and to apply, visit: www.city.cleveland.oh.us/node/164463.
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