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For students 24 years of age or older, scholarships are available throughout the year, although specific application deadlines may differ. To be eligible, applicants must be:

Available Scholarships for Students 24 Years of Age or Older

Adult Scholarship 

Completing our Adult Scholarship application will allow our scholarship committee to consider you for more than 40 different scholarship opportunities. Applicants must be a resident of Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto, or Charlotte counties. Students must be pursuing or planning to pursue further education at an accredited university, community college, technical school, or certification program.

Application Opens August 15, 2023. Accepting applications through September 15, 2023.

Click here to view a listing of all scholarships awarded through the Adult Application.

Scholarship Renewal

This year, eligible renewal students will receive an email from scholarships@cfsarasota.org inviting them to complete the Renewal Application. If you are an eligible renewal student but have not received an email invitation by May of each year, please contact scholarships@cfsarasota.org for more information.

Special Note: Please read your notification letter carefully as it will detail whether or not your scholarship is renewable. Students who were not awarded a renewable scholarship during a prior year, will not be considered through this application. Please apply through our Adult Scholarship application to be considered for a new scholarship award.

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If more information is needed, please contact:

Kay Carrington 
Manager, Scholarships
941-556-7173
scholarships@cfsarasota.org

Below is a listing of all scholarship applications for students 24 years of age or older:

Adult Scholarship

Completing our Adult Scholarship application will allow our scholarship committee to consider you for more than 40 different scholarship opportunities. Applicants must be a resident of Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto, or Charlotte counties. Students must be pursuing or planning to pursue further education at an accredited university, community college, technical school, or certification program.

Application is open Aug. 15, 2023-Sept. 15, 2023

Scholarship Renewal

This year, eligible renewal students will receive an email from scholarships@cfsarasota.org inviting them to complete the Renewal Application. If you are an eligible renewal student but have not received an email invitation by May of each year, please contact scholarships@cfsarasota.org for more information.

Special Note: Please read your notification letter carefully as it will detail whether or not your scholarship is renewable. Students who were not awarded a renewable scholarship during a prior year, will not be considered through this application. Please apply through our Adult Scholarship application to be considered for a new scholarship award.

General Education Diploma (GED) Scholarship 

The purpose of this scholarship is to provide students with financial assistance to pursue their General Education Diploma (GED). Applicants must be residents of Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto, or Charlotte counties.

The scholarship deadline for the GED scholarship is July 7, 2023. 

If you have any questions about this scholarship opportunity, please send us an email at scholarships@cfsarasota.org. 

Sarasota County Bar Association Richard R. Garland Diversity Scholarship

This scholarship is intended to provide an opportunity for incoming second year law students of under-represented minority backgrounds (e.g. race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical disability, or socioeconomic background), who have an interest in practicing law in Sarasota County. Scholarship awardees will complete a summer internship with a law firm in the local area after their second year and receive a scholarship for their third year of law school.


Application Opens July 1, 2023.

Suncoast Nursing Action Coalition BSN Scholarship 

This scholarship provides financial support for current BSN candidates in the Suncoast Nursing Action Coalition (SNAC) region (Sarasota, Charlotte, Manatee, & Desoto counties). The goal is to increase the number of bachelor’s prepared nurses who are working within the SNAC region.

 Application Next Opens February 1, 2024.

Suncoast Nursing Action Coalition Doctorate in Nursing Scholarship  

This is a renewable scholarship for the benefit of students demonstrating financial need who are accepted into an accredited Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Nursing or a Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Eligible applicants must be faculty members teaching in the area of nursing at State College of Florida, Keiser (Sarasota), Florida SouthWestern State College (Charlotte), Galen College of Nursing (Sarasota), or University of South Florida (Sarasota-Manatee) and be nominated by the Dean or Director of the program at which they currently teach.
 
 Application Next Opens February 1, 2024.

2Gen Parent Scholarship

The 2Gen Scholarship connects low-income parents with children attending Alta Vista, Emma E. Booker, Gocio, and Tuttle Elementary Schools with educational pathways to build their skills and lead to family-sustaining wages. Applicants must be referred by the Parent Education Navigator, be 18 years of age or older as of December 31st of the year in which they apply and be residents of Sarasota or Manatee counties for a minimum of 1 year.

Deadline: Rolling Application.