Scholarships
Recipients are selected based on academic and non-academic criteria of the applicant including: leadership, community involvement, educational aspirations, career goals, grade point average, special circumstances, and financial need.
In an effort to promote higher education within the Hermanitas® Program, qualified Hermanita graduates are awarded first year college scholarships. A special Scholarship Reception is held annually to recognize the Scholarship recipients and their families.
Since its inception, MANA de San Diego has awarded 298 scholarships and handed out $288,000 to deserving Latinas in our community for community college through doctoral programs. Each year, we continue to honor exceptional role models.
For more information please contact the MANA office.
Deadline: February 2011
Application will be available Fall 2010
MANA scholarships are funded in part by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF). Created in 1992 as a private, independent foundation, TCWF's mission is to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.
The MANA de San Diego Scholarship Program was established in 1991 in memory of Sylvia Chavez, a talented and tireless volunteer of MANA de San Diego. Sylvia Chavez was a woman who believed in the power of higher education as a means for Latinas to achieve equal participation in the social, educational, and economic arenas of this country.