Education and Scholarships.
What if all our students get their education financed though scholarships?
This is just a dream, nice dream, but worth chasing even if our success rate is very small. Though there are number of scholarships available all around, getting a scholarship is not easy. It requires lot of hard work and timely planning on the part of students and parents to qualify for a scholarship. Any sincere effort to qualify for a scholarship will always be beneficial irrespective of success or failure. If a student gets the scholarship as a result of this hard work, that is great, if on the flip side someone fails to get the scholarship, the long term benefits occurring out of this effort will still pay off very well.
At Amanah Education it is our sincere effort to collect the information about as many scholarships as possible and inspire students and parents to aim for it. One such scholarship offered to residents of Cook county Illinois is by George M. Pullman Education Foundation in Chicago.
This foundation supports the dreams and aspirations of outstanding graduating high school students with merit-based, need-based scholarships and continuing educational support. Their vision is — to help students regardless of their backgrounds. Every person, has the right to achieve the American Dream is their motto. Their committee chooses the beneficiaries, who must have at least a 3.0 GPA and financial need, and must answer essay questions, which are different every year.
Since it was founded in 1950, the foundation has granted about $30 million in college scholarships to about 12,000 Cook County students. In 1897, Pullman founder of Pullman Palace Car company, bequeathed $1.2 million to establish a free school of manual training for his employees’ children and local residents. In 1949, the school was shut down and the foundation was created in 1950.
From 2009 to 2014, foundation increased the number of beneficiaries from 33 to 42 freshmen a year, and they increased the amount of scholarship money awarded from about $494,000 to about $680,000. To sustain this, Pullman Foundation increased the endowment fund from about $24 million in 2009 to about $29 million today (2015). Each Pullman recipient receives $5,000 a year; recipients with good standings are invited again to apply for four years.
Echoing our views mentioned earlier, here is the very useful advice from president to college-bound students: ‘There are lots of scholarships and grants out there. Finding them is time-consuming; it takes hustle. But anything worth having is worth working for’.
Visit https://www.pullmanfoundation.org/become/about/ to apply for scholarship.
We sincerely request all the readers to forward us details about all the scholarships they know.
The details about Pullman Education has been obtained from their website and an article by Leslie Mann in Chicago Tribune dated 1st March 2015
