IAMAdoptee : Scholarship Programs for Intercountry Adoptees

Scholarships for

Intercountry Adoptees

Scholarships are often a key resource for adoptees navigating their identity because they offer crucial support during a formative period of self-discovery and growth.

For many adoptees, the journey to understanding their identity involves reconciling complex feelings about their background, culture, and personal history. Scholarships can provide the tools and opportunities necessary for greater academic achievement, ensuring access to mental health resources and counseling, and helping adoptees address and process their unique experiences and emotional challenges.

Together, these scholarships empower adoptees to explore and affirm their identity with greater confidence and resilience, ultimately supporting their overall well-being and personal development.

Scholarship Opportunities for Intercountry Adoptees

Adoptee Excellence Scholarship by Also Known As Inc.

Also-Known-As, Inc. is a New York-based national nonprofit adoptee organization that serves international adoptees and their families. Founded in 1996 by Hollee McGinnis, it is the longest-running adoptee-led organization for adoptee services in the United States. The mission of Also-Known-As is to build a community that empowers the voices of adult international adoptees, while providing resources and space to acknowledge the loss of birth country, culture, language, and biological family. Also-Known-As is not a culturally-specific organization.

The Also-Known-As Adoptee Excellence Scholarship is the first scholarship program of its kind that acknowledges, celebrates, and supports outstanding undergraduate students and graduating high school seniors who are international adoptees, born in and adopted from another country to the United States. It is open to international adoptees who demonstrate the attributes of leadership, drive, integrity, and civic engagement. One individual will be awarded a $1,000.00 (one-thousand dollars and zero cents) scholarship to support their full-time study at an accredited institution.

Also-Known-As seeks candidates who have used their adoption story and formative youth experiences to lead, serve, and pursue a life of purpose and significance, both individually and for their communities. An all-adoptee scholarship committee will be responsible for selecting the scholarship recipient.

Learn More: www.alsoknownas.org/scholarships
Adoptees for Awareness Grant by SF21 + Adoptee Voices

S12F and Adoptees Connect, Inc. have co-created a grant program to help adoptee-focused 501(c)(3) organizations. The purpose of this program is to help non-profit adoptee centric organizations, created by adoptees and exclusively designed to help adoptees. We will also consider family preservation organizations that keep mothers and babies together or raise awareness of the harm of adoption in general. Our grants are for United States-based 501(c)(3) organizations.

If you want to apply for the Adoptees for Awareness Grant, click the link below. Scroll to the bottom, and you will find the application.

Learn More: www.s12f.co/philanthropy-and-grants/
Scholarship Opportunities for Foster Youth

Scholarships for Adoptees and Foster Youth (Adoptive and Family Foster Coalition)

A scholarship might cover the entire cost of your tuition, or it might be a one-time award of a few hundred dollars. Either way, it’s worth applying for, because it’ll help reduce the cost of your education.

While some scholarships for college are merit-based awarded based on academic achievement or on a combination of academics and a special talent, trait, or interest and other scholarships are based on financial need, many scholarships are geared toward particular groups of people.

Below you will find scholarship opportunities geared specifically towards those youths who are adopted, spent time in foster care or come from a kinship family background. There will also be some scholarships offered due to race, ethnicity and other populations that often directly intersect with child welfare.

Learn More: https://affcny.org/family-supports/youth-education/scholarships-for-adoptees-and-foster-youth/
ASIA Families - Walter Jonathan Poirier Endowment Scholarship

Asia Families is honored to partner with Chris Poirier, a Korea Bridge Tour participant and Camp Rice volunteer, to establish an annual college scholarship for adoptees in memory of Chris’s brother, Walter Jonathan Poirier.

In recent years, Chris has become active as a volunteer and voice in the Korean adoption community. In doing so, he has discovered a powerful way to make a difference in the lives of children and adults adopted from Korea as well as their families. He views the establishment of this scholarship as the next step in supporting adoptees and bringing a sense of peace to his family.

To learn more about the Walter Jonathan Poirier Endowment Scholarship visit: www.asiafamilies.org/blog/2019/1/28/kad-launches-college-scholarship-for-korean-adoptees-in-memory-of-his-brother

Visit: www.asiafamilies.org
More Scholarship Opportunities Coming Soon!

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– Name of Scholarship

– Name of Host Organization(s)

– Scholarship Description

– Program Website

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– What country of origin does your scholarship program serve?

– Does your program serve adoptees of all ages? (Yes/No) (Please Specify Ages)

Scholarship Opportunities for Intercountry Adoptees

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