BHESC members, AFC and EFSI, offer $50,000 in scholarships, two $5,000 awards and sixteen $2,500 awards, to first-year students who will be enrolled in an accredited college or trade school for the Fall 2007 semester. Winners will be selected by random drawing. One entry per person.

Offers scholarships to students who are blind or visually impaired and are pursuing college, university or vocational/technical school degrees.

Offers scholarships to students whose parent or guardian was permanently disabled or killed while on duty in a roadway construction zone accident. The applicant’s parent or guardian must have been employed by a transportation firm or transportation public agency at the time of the accident.

Offers monetary awards for program service to be used in paying for college or to pay back qualified student loans.

Offers a scholarship to the son or daughter of a current employee of a FFELP participating Texas college, university, or proprietary school's Financial Aid office. For additional eligibility requirements and information, download the application (PDF).

Offers a $1,000 scholarship to the essay contest winner who best explains how Google's evolution will affect the Internet and those in the Search Engine Marketing industry.

Offers scholarships to graduating seniors and above from Austin-area high schools.

Offers 50 four-year $20,000 scholarships ($5,000 per year for four years) and 200 four-year $4,000 scholarships ($1,000 per year for four years) to high school or home-school seniors maintaining a minimum 3.00 G.P.A., who are planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution.

Offers grants for dependent children of firemen or peace officers having suffered injury or are killed in the line of duty.

Offers scholarships to the selected winners who apply by submitting an article detailing a solution to the foreclosure crisis.

Offers four-year scholarships to University of Texas at Austin students who demonstrate academic excellence, financial need and strong leadership skills.

Offers fifty scholarships of up to $30,000 per year to students attending community colleges or two-year institutions in the US and planning to transfer to four-year institutions, and thirty scholarships of up to $50,000 per year to graduate students. Applicants must be outstanding individuals demonstrating financial need.

Offers scholarships based entirely on essays written by applicants. Consideration is not given to grades, academic program or financial need.

Offers various scholarships to undergraduate and graduate student leaders.

Offers a $10,000 scholarship award to a high school senior with an identified learning disability (LD) who is pursuing a four-year undergraduate degree.

Offers graduate and undergraduate scholarships to students who have been in foster care, adopted, or taken into legal guardianship before the age of 18. Eligible applicants must be 25 or under and submit specific documentation regarding their orphan status.

Offers 10 $3,000 scholarships to students under the age of 25, who are survivors of, or who are currently battling cancer or a critical or life threatening disease.

Offers scholarships of up to $7,200 annually to underserved high school students showing leadership potential and demonstrating financial need to attend an accredited 4-year college or university of their choice.

Offers approximately $2.5 million each year in college scholarships to low-income and minority students. The Sallie Mae Fund is committed to addressing the three barriers to college access that low-income and minority students face today; lack of information regarding higher education and financial aid, financial need, and academic preparedness.

Offers a $5,000 stipend (to cover eight weeks of employment and living expenses) to at least two award recipients. The Preservation Fellows Program was created to build interest in and awareness of historic preservation among college-aged young adults, specifically those from diverse cultural backgrounds. The program targets Undergraduate and Graduate students, encouraging interest in pursuing study in the fields of history, preservation, architecture, archaeology, landscape architecture, downtown revitalization and heritage tourism.

Offers grants ranging from $1,000 to $4,245 to students who have difficulties pursuing their higher education dreams because of financial need. Grants are awarded for one year only; however, recipients are encouraged to reapply in subsequent years provided eligibility requirements are met.

Offers scholarships of up to $30,000 to students pursuing graduate degrees in public service fields and are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in public service.

Offers one two-year scholarship to a Univeristy of Texas at Austin Junior. At time of application submission, applicant must be a fully admitted, full-time Sophomore who will attain Junior-level status in the following semester.

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