The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has opened the Young Scholars Program nomination process for the largest scholarships available to students and recent alumni from community colleges.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarships can provide funding for tuition, room and board, required fees, and books for the length of the undergraduate degree, generally two years. Each award can total up to $30,000 annually, though the amounts awarded will vary based on such factors as the cost of the institution each recipient attends.

The Foundation plans to award about 30 scholarships in Spring 2010. It will renew awards each year based upon the students performance. Current students are eligible, as are alumni who earned a degree from a community or two-year institution since spring 2005 and have not yet transferred to a four-year college. The application deadline is Jan. 20, 2010. All candidates must be nominated by the faculty representative at their community college or two-year institution.  The nomination deadline is Jan. 26, 2010. The list of faculty representatives and application materials are available on the Foundation’s website, www.jkcf.org.   

The private foundation will award up to $30,000 annually per recipient to help students and recent alumni from community and two-year institutions pursue four-year degrees at any accredited college or university in the United States and abroad. Last year, the Foundation received over 480 nominations.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to helping young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education. The Foundation provides challenging opportunities to high achievers from lower-income families through its Young Scholars Program, generous scholarships for undergraduate and graduate study, and grants to nonprofit organizations and educational institutions.