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WALLA WALLA–Applications for Blue Mountain Community Foundation (BMCF) welcomes scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Scholarships are available for students entering higher education or other post-high school training and education. A few scholarship funds are open to graduate students. There are scholarships for a wide variety of careers and college majors. There are scholarships to help women whose education was interrupted at one point, or for women entering college for the first time.

To be eligible for most scholarships one must be a resident of either Columbia, Walla Walla or Garfield County in SE Washington or Umatilla County in NE Oregon. BMCF also has scholarships for graduates of Prosser High School in Prosser, Wash.

Completing the scholarship application, students may be considered by up to 77 scholarship funds at BMCF. In 2019 the Community Foundation awarded $748,452 in 374 scholarships to 332 students. The average award was $1600.

The online application is available starting January 1, 2020 at http://www.bluemountainfoundation.org Applications may be submitted anytime between January 1, 2020 and 11:59 pm on Monday March 2, 2020.

For more information contact Liz McClure, Fund Services Coordinator or Kari Isaacson, Executive Director at 509-529-4371.