ESSENCE OF A HAITIAN WOMAN SCHOLARSHIP
The minority of Haitian women in the Business industry underscores a need for recruitment. Thus, through our foundation, we are an outreach apparatus, aimed at challenging that deficit. Through our Scholarship Foundation, promising young women of Haitian descent can realize their dreams in pursuing an accelerated education in Business. The foundation includes raising funds to provide scholarships to female students currently at Florida A&M University and female adolescents in the Miami-Dade, Broward or West Palm Beach County Public High Schools.
Our mission is to empower female adolescents and young women of Haitian descent by providing mentoring opportunities between them and women in the professional sector, while significantly increasing the number of Haitian women in the areas of: International Business, Business Administration, Business Management, Accounting, Marketing, Finance and Entrepreneurship.
Qualifiers
High School Senior: The scholarship renders $500-$1,000 scholarships to promising female adolescents of Haitian, who are: 1) Academically successful high school seniors, aspiring to achieve a business degree at Florida A&M University. The graduating senior will be a student at one of the Miami Dade, Broward, or West Palm Beach Public High Schools. The student must have an overall un-weighted grade point average of 3.0 or above. You must provide a copy of your high school transcript, and an official acceptance letter from Florida A&M University indicating admittance and major. The applicant must submit an essay with the application. An essay topic is listed on the application below.
*The scholarship is conditional upon the promising seniors’ first semester grades at Florida A&M University, which recipients are required to maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average, and provide documentation of her second semester enrollment. Upon receipt of the scholarship recipients’ first semester grades, the students are awarded the scholarship during the spring semester.
College Student: A college freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student from Florida A&M University pursuing an undergraduate and/or graduate degree from Florida A&M University in the areas of International Business, Business Administration, Business Management, Accounting, Marketing, Finance and Entrepreneurship. She must be of Haitian descent. Must have an overall grade point average of 3.0 or above. You must provide a copy of your college transcript from FAMU indicating grade point average, classification, and major. An essay topic will be given at time of submittal.