Grants for Students With One Parent

Kids' Chance Scholarship

• The national Kids' Chance organization helps provide educational opportunities and scholarships to current or incoming college students who have had a parent severely injured or killed while on the job. The states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia each have Kids' Chance organizations that award scholarships of varying amounts.

  Kids' Chance
  10 S. Broadway
  St. Louis, MO 63102
  877-933-0222
  kidschance.org

MaryEllen Locher Foundation Scholarship

• The MaryEllen Locher Foundation Scholarship Fund, formed in 2002 by a mother diagnosed with breast cancer, provides yearly scholarships to college students who have lost a parent to breast cancer. Scholarships come in three amounts: $1,000, $1,500 and $2,000. Students can apply for the scholarships each year they attend college. They must have a minimum 2.0 grade point average and submit three written essays to be eligible.

  MaryEllen Locher Foundation
  PO Box 4032
  Chattanooga, TN 37405
  maryellenlocherfoundation.org

Twin Towers Orphan Fund

• The Twin Towers Orphan Fund, founded on Sept. 12, 2001, provides educational assistance to students who lost one or both parents in the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. It also will provide financial assistance to children who lose one or both parents in any future terrorist attacks.

  The fund creates individual Section 529 Education Saving Accounts in the names of child beneficiaries of terrorist attacks. These funds provide tuition assistance, financial support for room and board at colleges and helps cover the costs of books and supplies. The amount of these savings accounts vary depending on the cost of the two- or four-year college or university that recipients are attending.

  Twin Towers Orphan Fund
  4800 Easton Drive
  Bakersfield, CA 93309
  661-633-9076
  ttof.org

Forgotten Dependents

• The nonprofit charitable organization Forgotten Dependents provides scholarships to cover college tuition and other higher-education costs for students who have lost at least one biological parent. To apply for the scholarships, a student needs to submit an essay of at least 500 words explaining career goals and one or two letters of recommendation from a teacher, coach, employer or any other person who can attest to an applicant's character. The amounts of the scholarships vary.

  Forgotten Dependents
  P.O. Box 2764
  Laurel, MD 20709-2764
  800-430-1058
  forgottendependents.com