The Community Scholarship Program has resulted in:

$

49

M+

Distributed in scholarships

13000

+

Scholarship recipients

70

%

First-generation college students in 2023

Common Scholarship Application

The San Diego Foundation Common Scholarship Application provides students access to more than 100 scholarship opportunities with awards ranging from $1,000 to more than $5,000. Some scholarships can be renewed for multiple years to help offset the financial burden for a student’s entire undergraduate career.

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The deadline to submit an application has passed.

Help Students Pursue their Educational Goals

Since 1997, the Community Scholarship Program has awarded more than $49 million to more than 13,000 college students from San Diego, making our program the largest non-university scholarship provider in San Diego County.

The Community Scholarship Program helps to:

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