How to Apply
The Community Foundation is associated with and home to many scholarships available to local students. Listed below are scholarships with links to applications and more information.
While a small selection of scholarships are administered and awarded directly by The Community Foundation, many more scholarships established by funds at The Foundation are are administered by high schools, colleges and universities and other organizations. Students seeking these or other scholarship opportunities should contact their high school guidance counselors or college financial aid offices directly.
Click here to view a listing of local high schools with scholarships supported by funds at The Community Foundation.
Click here to view a listing of colleges, universities and organizations with scholarships supported by funds at The Community Foundation.
Scholarships
Milton Fisher Scholarship for Innovation and Creativity
Application deadline: May 15, 2025 - Click here for more information
Est. 2003 by the Renée B. Fisher Foundation to provide a four-year scholarship to students who come up with distinctive solutions to problems faced by their schools, communities, or families. This scholarship is not a traditional scholarship focused on rewarding academic achievement. Its specific goal is to reward and encourage innovative and creative problem-solving. Although the scholarship is not awarded on the basis of financial need, the amount of each student’s award is shaped by financial need.
Scholarships in amounts up to $5,000 are awarded annually. Applicants are encouraged to review the projects of past winners. View the 2023 Milton Fisher Scholarship winners.
Lee Scholarship Fund
Application deadline: April 21, 2025
Children and spouses of full-time employees of The Lee Company who are currently enrolled or have applied for admission to a degree program of a postsecondary learning institution (accredited college or university) in a curriculum leading to a bachelor’s or associate’s degree are eligible to apply. Children are defined as natural, step, or adopted and no more than 26 years of age at the time of application. A full-time employee is one who has been working for The Lee Company for at least three years prior to the date of application and has worked a minimum of 1,000 hours during the preceding twelve months. Thirty to fifty scholarships, ranging from $500 to $3,500, are awarded annually. In addition, one or more scholarships will be awarded through the Walter Tischbein Scholarship Fund based on the criteria of the Lee Scholarship Fund with the addition that the student major in a STEM discipline with a preference for engineering and have a proven record of community service. If you have questions about applying for this scholarship, please email Logan Roddy.
New Haven Promise
New Haven Promise Information and Application
New Haven Promise scholarships are for students who live in New Haven, attend public school in New Haven and, in high school, earn a 3.0 GPA, 90% attendance and demonstrate good behavior. Scholarships cover up to full tuition at in-state public colleges and universities and up to $2,500 at in-state private nonprofit colleges and universities. Scholarships may be used for up to four years.
H. Pearce Family Scholarship Fund
Application deadline: April 21, 2025
Full-time employees, independent contractors, and spouses and children of full-time employees and independent contractors of the H. Pearce Real Estate Company, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and the Long Wharf Theatre are eligible to apply. Applicants must have been Connecticut residents for at least the past year and must be currently enrolled in or have applied for admission to a degree program of a postsecondary learning institution (accredited college, university, or technical school recognized as tax exempt). Children are defined as natural, step, or adopted and not less than 16 years of age or more than 25 years of age at the time of application. A full-time employee or independent contractor is one who has been working for The H. Pearce Company, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, or the Long Wharf Theatre for at least nine months prior to the date of application, and is currently working for The H. Pearce Company, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, or the Long Wharf Theatre at the time of the awarding of the scholarship. Scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 are awarded annually. If you have questions about applying for this scholarship, please email Logan Roddy.
The Promising Scholars Fund Edward A. Bouchet Scholarship
Application deadline: Contact Scholarship America
Est. 2007 by Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Beta Tau Boule' of New Haven, Connecticut as a scholarship fund to assist academically talented African American graduates of selected Connecticut high schools. Scholarships are offered each year for full-time study at an accredited two- or four-year college or university of the student's choice. This scholarship is administered by Scholarship Management Services, a division of Scholarship America. Learn more about the Promising Scholars Fund.
Watershed Scholarship Fund
Application deadline: Check website
Est. 2003 by the Watershed Fund to provide scholarships to students who reside within the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority District and intend to enter, or are currently enrolled in, an accredited university or two-year or four-year college to pursue undergraduate or graduate studies in the environmental sciences. For more information, visit www.thewatershedfund.org.
