CFVI Awards $150,000 In Academic Scholarships And Summer Grants To VI Students

Sponsored by First Bank VI, the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) hosted its annual awards reception on August 3rd to honor its donors, community partners, scholarship recipients and grantees. Students, parents and friends of the foundation came together at the Prior-Jollek Courtyard at Antilles School to celebrate achievements and recognize individuals that are making a difference in the community, according to a release CFVI issued Wednesday.

This year, the foundation awarded a total of $150,000 in summer grants and academic scholarships to VI students. Grants were awarded to local agencies to provide summer enrichment scholarships to foster children and children with high financial need throughout the territory. Funds for these grants were provided through the generosity of donors who make annual donations to the foundation.

Thanks to CFVI’s scholarship fund donors and other community partners, undergraduate, graduate and first-generation students will also have financial support to attend schools such as Temple University, Emerson College, Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of the Virgin Islands. CFVI scholarships range from $1,000-$6,000.

For the very first time, CFVI awarded scholarships to students at the Wheatley Skills Center through the Senator Marvin Blyden Scholarship Fund. Scholarship applications are still available for students that are currently enrolled at the Wheatley Skills Center on St. Thomas. Eligible applicants should apply at cfvi.fluidreview.com. The submission deadline is September 30.

If your organization or business is interested in awarding scholarships, consider establishing a scholarship fund at CFVI. The scholarship application, review and award process is managed by the Community Foundation. All you need to do is name your fund and begin fundraising for 2018, according to the release.

For more information, contact our Development Director, Katrin Braddell, at [email protected].

Applications for CFVI grants and scholarships are managed at cfvi.fluidreview.com. For more information about our offerings, visit our website at www.cfvi.net.

CFVI has awarded scholarships to Virgin Islands students since 1996.  The foundation wants to keep in touch with as many of our past scholarship recipients as possible and asks that “scholarship alumni” contact the foundation at 774-6031 or visit our website at http://www.cfvi.net/ to fill out the scholarship recipient questionnaire.

2017 Academic Scholarship Recipients

2017 Summer Grant Recipients