Updated as of February 5, 2024.
About the Scholarships
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Annual Scholarship Program annually provides more than a quarter million dollars in cash and prizes to blind college students (undergraduate and graduate students).
Award
- $8,000
- 30 scholarships are available
- Merit-based; based on academic excellence, community service, and leadership
- Financial assistance to attend the Annual Convention of the National Federation of the Blind in its entirety, July 3-8, 2024, in Orlando, FL.
Eligibility
- Legally blind
- Residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico
- Will be 18 years old before July 1, 2024
- Pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, post-secondary course of study in a degree program at a U.S. institution in the fall of the year of application (one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time)
- Must participate in the entire NFB National Convention and in all of its scheduled scholarship program activities (finalists will receive assistance to attend the national convention).
- Must attend the annual Convention of the National Federation of the Blind in its entirety, July 3-8, 2024, in Orlando, FL.
Deadline
- March 31, 2024
Application
Jim Halladay HumanWare/NFB Scholarship
Award
- Four scholarships are available; Merit-based
- $1,000 and a Brailliant BI40 braille display
- Financial assistance to attend the Annual Convention of the National Federation of the Blind in its entirety, July 3-8, 2024, in Orlando, FL.
Application process
- Same eligibility requirements as the NFB Scholarship above; apply using the NFB Scholarship online application.
- To be considered for this additional award, on the application, select the checkbox to get access to the Humanware scholarship application questions as well.
- NOTE: Even though the same application is used, the selection process for these Humanware scholarships is entirely separate from the selection process for the 30 NFB scholarships.
- Those selected as Humanware/NFB scholarship winners will be notified separately by Humanware of their winner status.
- If NFB scholarship applicants do not wish to fill out the application questions for the Humanware/NFB scholarships, simply do not check the box within the NFB scholarship application and bypass the associated questions.
Eligibility
- Legally blind
- Residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico
- Will be 18 years old before July 1, 2024
- Pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, post-secondary course of study in a degree program at a U.S. institution in the fall of the year of application (one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time)
- Must participate in the entire NFB National Convention and in all of its scheduled scholarship program activities (finalists will receive assistance to attend the national convention).
- Must attend the annual Convention of the National Federation of the Blind in its entirety, July 3-8, 2024, in Orlando, FL.
Deadline
- March 31, 2024
Application
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This unique project is being coordinated through The IMAGE Center of Maryland, a center for independent living in Towson, and it is funded by a grant from the Maryland Department of Education Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services.