Scholarships and Bursaries

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Financial circumstances shouldn’t be a barrier to post-secondary education. That’s why SCF donors have created a range of scholarships and bursaries to help students with financial need achieve their post-secondary goals.

SCF Student Awards help reduce the amount of debt students must take on, whether they’re just getting started or are halfway through their program.

Scholarships and bursaries may apply to any field of study, including an academic discipline (such as the arts or sciences), a professional program (such as law or medicine), a trade (such as plumbing or carpentry), or a skill (such as certified first aid and truck driver training courses). Normally, a student is not expected to do specific work for the payer in exchange for a scholarship or bursary.

Useful Definitions

Scholarship

A scholarship is a grant or payment made to support a student’s education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement. Academic transcripts are usually requested. Extracurricular activities such as athletics and community work may be also considered.

Bursary

A bursary is typically an award for a student with financial need. Bursaries may have academic requirements but are generally focused on helping students who do not have the resources to pay for school on their own. Applications for bursaries will ask for an explanation of financial need. Extracurricular activities such as athletics and community work may also be considered to receive a bursary.

Award

A personal qualification or proficiency is considered an eligibility requirement (e.g. Particular skills and achievements are recognized, such as scholar-athletes, musicians, etc.).

* A scholarship, bursary or award may contain components of all three: academic achievement, financial need and personal qualifications. To make selection easy, the weighting of each component should be pre-defined. Given the nature of a community foundation, criteria often include a component of volunteerism, leadership, civic engagement, etc.

Salmon Arm Students

Established through several of our endowment funds are scholarships and bursaries exclusive to students whom are from Salmon Arm and are attending the Okanagan College – Salmon Arm Campus, University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus and Thompson River University or graduating from School District 83.

Contact your local school student advisor for applications to any of these grants!

Students Graduating School District 83

North Okanagan Shuswap District Endowment
Brad Jackson Scholarship
Centennial Reunion
Charlotte Hunter Endowment
Class ’77 – David MacKay Memorial Endowment
David John Stratton Memorial Bursary
Dearing Family Endowment
Dorothy Longdo Memorial Bursary Fund
Fowler Gomme Family Endowment Fund
Frank and Rita Smuin Memorial Bursary
Glenn & Judith Borthistle Endowment
Hana & Glen Larson Endowment Fund
Lisa Rolland Children’s Literacy Fund
Loyola Elliott Bursary
Margaret & Ronald Willey Memorial – (School District 83)
Morris Bursary for Excellence in Mathematics
Nayki/Greer Family Endowment
Porteous/Mullen Bursary Endowment
Ralph & Jean Smith Memorial Endowment Fund
Salmon Arm Kinsmen and Kinette Fund
Salmon Arm Secondary Athletic Endowment
Salmon Arm Folk Music Society Fine Arts Development Fund
Salmon Arm Metis Association Bursary Fund
Shane Gorner Memorial
Sholinder Family Endowment
Shuswap Volunteer Firemen’s Association – Cody Davies Memorial Bursary
Steve Heal Memorial Scholarship Fund
Tom Brush Memorial Scholarship Fund
Walter Ellaschuk Memorial Bursary

Attending Okanagan College – Salmon Arm Campus

Al Neale Bursary
Eve and Christopher Wright Scholarship
Kuna Family Bursary Endowment
Margaret and Barry Stokes Family Fund
Nick and Marilyn Brown Family
Salmon Arm College Scholarship Trust Fund
Nick and Marilyn Brown Family Fund
Sansom Family Endowment Fund
Sue Ackerman Educational Fund
Tomas Idzan Memorial Bursary
George and Nancy Clark Memorial Bursary
Len O’Neill Memorial Award
Vicki Hitchen Memorial Award

Attending Thompson River University

Janet Pattinson Shuswap Naturalist Club Bursary

Attending UBC – Okanagan Campus

Henderson Award in International Development