MaryEllen Locher Foundation

  • Eligibility: Student must have lost a parent to breast cancer or complications relating from the disease or have a parent who has survived breast cancer. Student must live within a 50-mile radius of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student must be a current high school senior who will graduate the year of application, a current college student, or have earned a GED. Student must have a minimum GPA of 2.5. Student must be a legal resident of the United States. Student must be accepted as a full-time enrollee in an undergraduate program at either a two or four-year accredited college or university.

1.     Requirements: Scholarship winners are required to participate in at least one breast cancer awareness project during the school year they receive a scholarship.  Recipients may complete this requirement on their own or join with the MaryEllen Locher Foundation or other organizations in fulfilling this requirement.

2.     Deadline: January 14, 2019

3.     Website: http://www.melfoundation.org/#/home