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PCC > About Us > Foundation > Foundation Scholarships > Scholarships > General

GENERAL SCHOLARSHIPS

American Association of University Women
Amount: $250 per year as available

  • Second-year non-traditional student (female preferred)
  • Carry and maintain 12 credit hours per semester
  • Must maintain cumulative 2.0 GPA
  • May use for books or tuition
  • Must be a graduate of Pueblo County public school or GED recipient

American GI Forum
Amount: $500 per semester
The American GI Forum, a veterans family organization since 1948
Web:
http://www.va.gov/

  • At least one parent or grandparent must be of Hispanic descent and provide a letter confirming such (must indicate on Scholarship Application ethnicity)
  • Pueblo County resident for 3 years preceding date of application
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.8 GPA per semester
  • One letter of recommendation should be from a high school instructor
  • Prefer letter from Department Chair of applicant's major
  • Final approval - American GI Forum Scholarship Committee

Autobee Club, Inc.
Amount:  $250 per semester
In honor of Autobee Family's Great Grandfather, Charles Autobee, to help the community and maintain grandfather's memory

  • Pueblo County resident
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a  2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay must include financial need
  • Academic standing

Battelle
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Major in Math or Science
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Essay must include financial need
  • Academic standing

Bridges to the Future
Amount: Tuition
Child placement agency
Web: http://www.du.edu/bridges/

  • Prior foster care resident within the State of Colorado
  • Letter from Social Services confirming applicant lived in foster care within Colorado
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester

Richard & Margaret Capek Memorial
Amount: $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay addressing financial need

Cardinal Family
Amount:  $250 per semester

  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay addressing financial need

E. M. Christmas Foundation
Amount:  $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Applicant must have completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay addressing financial need

Dammann Family
Amount: Tuition, books & fees up to $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Available at the Pueblo and Fremont campuses
  • Seeking AAS degree or certificate
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Provide documentation of community involvement and/or volunteer work
  • Based on merit
  • Essay must address financial need

Stephanie T. Eve Memorial
Amount: Varies
Foundation

  • Available to PCC facility services employees and their immediate family members
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester

Joseph A. and Barbara Fortino
Amount: $750 per semester
Foundation

  • At least one parent or grandparent must be of Italian descent and provide a letter confirming such (Must indicate ethnicity on Scholarship Application)
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a  3.0 GPA per semester

Fremont Campus
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Fremont campus only
  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry a minimum of 6 hours per semester
  • Minimum 3.0 GPA to apply and minimum 2.5 GPA per semester/3.0 cumulative GPA to retain scholarship
  • Essay must address financial need

Jess and Lucy Garcia
Amount: Varies

  • Carry and maintain 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Must be a second-year student (prefer single parent)
  • A copy of financial aid award letter must be submitted with scholarship application.

Levi F. Garrett Memorial
Amount: $250 per semester

  • Southwest Campus only
  • Student must be employed
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a  2.5 GPA per semester
  • Preference given to first generation student
  • Essay must include statement confirming first generation and documentation of community volunteer activities

Janice K. Gould
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Pueblo or Fremont campuses
  • Preference for women in a transition program with area women's centers
  • Carry and complete 9 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay must include financial need

Hasan Family
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Must be enrolled in either a PCC culinary, teaching, music or health program
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay must include financial need

Edgar F. & Francis D. Johnson Memorial
Amount: $1,500 per semester
Foundation

  • Demonstrate significant academic improvement or scholarship
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Donor encourages future repayment of scholarship awards to help additional students
  • Essay should include statements that support academic improvement

Kane Family Foundation
Amount: $500 per semester

  • Carry and maintain 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain 3.25 GPA per semester
  • Demonstrate high motivation and potential for academic success

Marvin Carroll Knudson Past President
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Carry and maintain 12 credit hours
  • Maintain a 3.5 cumulative college GPA
  • Major of Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of General Studies, or any other program that has a transfer articulation agreement
  • Must document community and high school volunteer activities

Loaf 'N Jug
Amount: $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need

John & Agnes Miazga
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Pueblo Campus only
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay must address financial need

John L. & Hester E. O’Donnell Memorial
Amount: $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Applicant must be a graduate of Pueblo area high school
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need

Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Amount: up to $600 per semester for tuition, fees, books, and supplies

  • Pueblo or Fremont Campuses
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay to describe experiences as a GLBT person or involvement/Experience in support of the GLBT community
  • Must be available to be recognized/honored at the annual Pride Banquet held in October

Pepsi Bottling Group
Amount:  $750 per semester

  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Include within essay a statement that addresses financial need

Frank and Hazel Petrocco
Amount:  $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need


Hazel Felton Petrocco

Amount:  $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need

Pueblo Community College Foundation
Amount: $500 per semester

  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need

Pueblo Community College Honors Program
Amount:  $250 per semester

  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.5 GPA per semester
  • Accepted into the PCC Honors Program
  • Essay should include a statement addressing financial need

Pueblo Lodge No. 17 A.F. & A.M. Warren Skrifvars Scholarship Trust
Amount: $500 per semester
Foundation

  • High school graduate
  • Resident of Pueblo County
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses community activities demonstrating leadership qualities

Pueblo Reunion
Amount:  $500 per semester

  • Must have graduated from any Pueblo City/County High School
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Very important that your essay include how you will use your education to enhance the quality of life in Pueblo

Puebloans By Choice
Amount: $500 per semester

  • Pueblo campus only
  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Must perform 15 hours of community service per semester (total of 30 hours) as a volunteer at the Pueblo Zoo, Pueblo Animal Shelter or with the Pueblo Downtown Association
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need
  • May receive other scholarships

Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation (The Pueblo Chieftain)
Amount: $750 per semester
Web:
http://www.chieftain.com/

  • Pueblo campus only
  • Enrolled in media related programs
  • High school graduates with a 2.5 GPA may apply
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay must state financial need

Freda T. Roof Memorial and Yngve Hansen Fund
Amount: Tuition and fees up to $800 per semester

  • Enrolled in a recognized major
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Donor encourages the future repayment of scholarship to help other students

Schepp Family
Amount: $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Fremont County Resident
  • Preference given to single parent household (include in essay)
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.8 GPA per semester
  • Essay to include statements about the importance of continuing education in applicant's life

Sociedad Mutalista Ignacio Zaragoza
Amount: Varies

  • Must be a Pueblo County resident attending PCC in Pueblo
  • Carry and complete a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Must be of Mexican descent (must indicate Mexican ethnicity on Scholarship Application; Hispanic ethnicity does not meet the criteria)
  • Essay must state financial need, how your education will improve our community, indicate name of a relative, relationship of relative and name of Mexican city/state where relative came from and year they lived there
  • Two references from PCC professors and must sign Release of Information Form

Swerdfeger Family Scholarship
Amount: $250 per semester

  • Completed 12 college credit hours
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement that addresses financial need

Thirty Club Foundation
Amount: $500 per semester

  • Pueblo Campus only
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Include statement in essay that addresses financial need

Robert & Bernice Carter-Trisler Memorial
Amount: $500 per semester
Foundation

  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Include within essay a statement that addresses financial need

Louis & Rose Ursick Memorial
Amount: $800 per semester
Foundation

  • Pueblo County resident for three years preceding date of application
  • Graduate of high school within Pueblo County within last 12 months
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.5 per semester

Max & Kathleen Watts Foundation
Amount: $1,500 per semester

  • Available to students seeking a vocational degree/certificate who do not intend to obtain a baccalaureate degree
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statements identifying current sources of income

Dean & Betty Wolcott
Amount: $1,000 per semester
Foundation

  • Resident of Montezuma, Dolores, LaPlata, Archuleta or San Juan counties
  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Minimum GPA 2.0 per semester.  No GPA requirement for incoming students
  • Include within essay a statement that addresses financial need

Wolfers Family
Amount: Varies

  • Fremont Campus only
  • Carry and complete 6 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester

Carl & Goldie Wood Memorial
Amount: $500 per semester

  • Carry and complete 12 credit hours per semester
  • Maintain a 2.5 GPA per semester
  • Essay should include statement identifying current sources of income

 

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