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Post-Secondary Scholarships

About CFGC Post-Secondary Scholarships

The Community Foundation of Greene County provides a number of post-secondary scholarships for deserving students to participate in education opportunities beyond high school. These scholarships have been established as permanently endowed funds by members of the Greene County community to benefit succeeding generations of residents – their way of giving back to the community. A list of the available scholarships and links to their eligibility criteria follows below.

Types of Scholarships

There are two types of scholarships:

  1. Scholarships for Graduating High School Seniors – for students who are in their senior year of high school and plan to attend college, university, technical school, business school, etc.
  2. Scholarships for Adult Learner or Non-Traditional Students – for students who have previously graduated high school, and/or received a GED, and are planning to attend college, university, technical school, business school, etc.  (Scroll down to the section for Non-Traditional Students.  Students eligible for these scholarships will need to complete the appropriate application forms for those scholarships.  Please scroll down for more information on Adult Learner Scholarships.

How to Apply

Applicants should very carefully read the guidelines for each scholarship (see list below) to determine if they are eligible to apply for that scholarship, to learn about various requirements and documentation to be submitted, deadline dates, as well as where to submit the application.

For more information about post-secondary scholarships at the Community Foundation of Greene County, please contact the foundation office at 724-627-2010 or email at cfgcpa@gmail.com.

The online application portal will help you identify the scholarship(s) for which you may be eligible.

It is an easy process.
Click on the (APPLY) link below.
This will take you to a log-on page. For the first time, you will enter your email address and then click Create a New Account.
This will take you to a registration page where you will set up your account with basic name, mailing address, birth date, etc. info. and set a password.
Once you do that you will get a confirmation page. Click continue.
(After your first time setting up the account – you can enter your password to log into the account and won’t see the registration page again.)
Then you can select apply which will take you to a screen with a list of available applications
  • Graduating High School Seniors will Select Community Foundation of Greene County Scholarships 2023.  (This selection has 24 scholarship opportunities tied to it.)

    The CFGC Scholarships 2023 for graduating high school seniors will open in mid-February for applications. Please check back around February 10, 2023.
    You can check out the individual scholarship opportunities with their eligibility criteria below.
  • College students who are renewing an application for a scholarship they currently hold will select the name of the scholarship they will be renewing. A code is required to access that scholarship – contact the CFGC office if you did not receive your code by email.
  • Adult or Non-traditional students who have previously graduated from high school (or have a GED) will select the Stealth Scholarship and/or William H. Davis, Jr. Scholarship to apply (for more information and guidelines for these scholarships, please see the list below Scholarships for Adult Learners or Non-Traditional Students)
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The CFGC Scholarships 2023 for graduating high school seniors will open in mid-February for applications. Please check back around February 10, 2023.
You can check out the individual scholarship opportunities with their eligibility criteria below
Scholarship applications and all required attachments – transcripts, FAFSA Student Aid Report, References, essays, etc. – must be submitted by 11:59 PM on April 3rd.
CFGC Scholarship Activities Form – This is a fillable Word Document to provide a list of school, community and work activities during your high school career.
Click on the link to download and open the Word document.  Click the Save As Icon and save the form to your computer (yourname scholarship activities form).  Start filling in your information in the form.  If you have more activities than space in the form, you can add more rows.  With the document open in Word, highlight one or more blank rows (all the way across the page), right click on the mouse and select Insert in the pop-up box, then select rows above or rows below the space you’ve highlighted. Then click enter.
Be sure the save the document again, when you are finished entering information.  When you are ready to complete your application, there will be a section for you to upload this document to your application.
(There is also a link to the blank form in the application.   But if you completed the form earlier, you will need to navigate to the location on your computer where you saved the completed form.

1) Scholarships for Graduating High School Seniors

Choose a link below to download the eligibility and application criteria for Scholarships for :

All Greene County Students (public school, private school, home school, etc.)

All Greene County public school students

Students graduating from the Greene County Career & Technology Center

Students graduating from Carmichaels Area High School

Students graduating from Jefferson-Morgan High School

Students graduating from Mapletown High School

Students graduating from Waynesburg Central High School

Students graduating from West Greene High School


TO RENEW OR REAPPLY FOR  A CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP

Some scholarships may allow a current recipient to renew or reapply to continue the scholarship during their college years.  If you need to renew or reapply – you will receive an email notifying your that you are eligible to renew or reapply and the information that will be required.  To Reapply – you will need a code to enter on the application form in order to complete the application. Call or email the CFGC office.

2) Scholarships for Adult or Non-Traditional Students

Check out the guidelines for these scholarships for adults – or individuals who have graduated from high school (or received a GED).

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Please call 724-627-2010 or email cfgcpa@gmail.com for more information with any questions about the Scholarships for Adult or Non-Traditional Students.

Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and Student Aid Report (SAR)

It is highly recommended that all scholarship applicants complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form to assist in matching you with additional sources of financial aid. This form can be completed as soon as January 1st of the year you plan to attend college. You can go back to your FAFSA to check status, make corrections to a processed FAFSA and get other information should your circumstances change. Four to six weeks after submitting your FAFSA, you will receive a Student Aid Report (SAR) which summarizes the information you reported.

Most CFGC scholarships require a copy of your SAR to be included with your application. Applications missing your SAR or other supporting documents will not be considered so please plan ahead! View a FAFSA SAR example.

Planning for College?

Education Planner

Visit Education Planner from American Educational Services for help in planning for college. Education Planner is your one-stop career and college planning site. It has the information you need to research careers, choose a post-secondary school, apply online, and find ways to finance your education.

PATH Program

Students receiving a scholarship from the Community Foundation of Greene County may also be eligible for a matching grant from the PATH Program (determined by PHEAA.)

The Community Foundation of Greene County is a partner in Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency’s (PHEAA) Partnerships for Access to Higher Education (PATH) Program. Through the PATH Program, PHEAA potentially provides a dollar-for-dollar match of scholarships awarded by the Foundation. To be eligible, students must:

  • Receive a scholarship from the Community Foundation of Greene County (or other PATH partner agency)
    complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form
  • Be enrolled in a Pennsylvania college or university
  • Be a state grant recipient
  • Have additional unmet financial need

CFGC’s scholarships are available ONLY to eligible students residing within Greene County, Pennsylvania. If you live outside of Greene County, contact the PATH Program directly for the contact information for a PATH partner in your area.

Please note that the PATH Program is NOT a scholarship! It is a scholarship matching program. We cannot recommend a student for a PATH match unless we have FIRST awarded them a scholarship from the list above.

Contact Us

The Community Foundation
of Greene County
108 East High Street
Waynesburg, PA 15370

Phone: 724-627-2010
Fax: 724-627-2011
Email: cfgcpa@gmail.com

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About CFGC

The Community Foundation of Greene County is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that develops, manages and distributes funds for charitable purposes in the community.

The official registration and financial information of the Community Foundation Greene County may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999.

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