Top 7 Essential Workers Scholarships
Scholarship for Important Workers: Around the country, vital employees have played a crucial role in saving lives during the COVID-19 outbreak. While Scholarsly employees were able to work from home during the shelter-in-place orders, critical personnel continued to report to work while endangering their own health in order to maintain vital infrastructure, public health, and safety services.
More than ever, Americans depend on their key employees to keep their lives functioning normally. Our grocery store employees, postal workers, medical staff, sanitation workers, delivery drivers, and many other staff members have all shown an unbelievable degree of dedication over the past year. As a means of saying thank you for their unshakable commitment to helping our communities through the pandemic, we would like to award our important workers with scholarships.
Who are the key employees?
On the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, doctors, nurses, healthcare providers, and emergency responders are vital workers. They are the workers who keep our sewage, water, energy, food supply, and other essential services running.
These include the college student who works as a clerk at the grocery store to help support herself and the single mother who does hospital linen work while raising two children who are college-age.
They are the ones who put their lives in risk in accordance with the government’s advice to stay put and shelter in place in order to protect other people’s lives and keep civilization functioning. Unfortunately, many of the essential staff members earn just enough to get by. We felt that we should make an attempt to urge corporations and organizations to support scholarships for workers who are essential to society in order to express our gratitude for their sacrifices.
1. FIU Scholarship for COVID-19 Key Employees
Florida International University created the COVID-19 Essential Employee Scholarship for the benefit of essential employees and their family.
This scholarship is available to nurses, doctors, firefighters, police, employees of grocery stores, restaurants, delivery drivers, and their dependents through Florida International University’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management.
The scholarship, which is meant for new students, may be applied to any of the Chaplin School’s online master’s degree programs during the semester in which they graduate.
For information on how to apply, interested parties may contact Joseph Cilli, the department chair and director of online education, at cillij@fiu.edu.
2. Scholarship for Woodward’s Children of Important Employees
The Woodward School, a renowned prep school in Quincy, Massachusetts, is currently accepting applications from The Children of Essential Workers. The scholarship is open to freshmen entering Grades 6 through 10 in the 2020–21 school year. One student in each grade will get a full scholarship.
To be eligible, candidates must be the daughters, grandchildren, or nieces of South Shore and Boston essential employees. School applications are due on June 20 and scholarship applications are due on June 30.
Anybody interested in applying must complete a virtual interview and send an essay with the subject line “Learning from the Pandemic, what are some things that I may bring forward with me once this is done” to Linda Harding, Woodward’s director of enrollment.
3. The Prospects for Frontline Workers in Michigan
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Futures for Frontliners program in Michigan was established in order to help Michigan individuals and their families.
The G.I. Bill would be used to provide Michigan’s important employees with opportunities for tuition-free education so they can get a technical certificate, an associate degree, or perhaps a bachelor’s degree. The effort aims to support workers who staff Michigan hospitals and nursing homes, stock supermarket shelves, produce personal protective equipment, maintain public safety, clean up waste, or deliver supplies in addition to those who offer child care to important infrastructure workers.
4. The D’Youville Award for Essential Employees
The Scholarship for Essential Employees program was created by Buffalo, New York-based private college D’Youville College to encourage people who put in so much effort and to help frontline workers further their careers.
D’Youville proposes to provide new undergraduates with unlimited grants of up to $2,000 year that can be used to cover their undergraduate tuition. At the beginning of each qualifying semester, these awards would be awarded in $1,000 increments.
Every interested party should submit an online email form with their name, email address, phone number, current employment information, the start date of such employment, and their preferred academic subject. This will function as an application and give more details about the scholarship.
5. Frontline Workers’ Children’s Summer Camp Scholarships
Summer Camp Scholarships for Children of Front Line Workers are now being made available for this year’s summer camps by Florida State Theatre, a Sarasota-based nonprofit.
The program covers the full cost of FST’s in-person camps ($300-$375 value) and online courses ($100 value). Ages 4 to 17 are the target audience for the camps. For details on the various camps, see here. To apply or for further information from the FST Education Office, call 941-366-1350.
6. USM’s Vital Worker Fellowship for First Responders
The University of Southern Maine is now taking applications for its new First Responder-Essential Worker Scholarship.
The university may offer awards of up to $1,000 each to 50 new and returning students who served as first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic, including medical professionals, firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and EMTs, or who provided front-line critical services, like grocery stores, delivery services, and transportation providers. The prize will be added to students’ accounts for the 2020–21 school year.
To apply, interested parties must complete an online application.
Up to $1,000 in awards
7. The Caregility Cares Scholarship for Crucial Employees
Caregility provides telehealth services. Their flagship product, the Caregility Platform, is an uniquely created ecosystem that benefits the whole healthcare supply chain. The Platform provides safe, dependable, and customizable two-way audio and video communication for every device and clinical workflow in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Now, Caregility handles more than 2 million video sessions annually and has established over 9,000 access points of care systems across the United States.
In all contexts, including critical and acute care, urgent and emergent care, post-acute and ambulatory care, and the home, Caregility is assisting with the change of patient care delivery. Follow Caregility on Twitter at @caregility.
