Scholarships are awarded to people with specific qualities and goals. Examples include learning new skills or taking a college course. The scholarships below may apply to:
- Kidney transplant recipients
- Donors and their families
- Caregivers
- Dialysis patients
- Anyone living with chronic kidney disease at any stage
- AAKP Cystinosis Patient Education and Activity Scholarship Program
- American Association on Health and Disability
- Buckfire Law
- Career One Stop
- Carolyn Wilson Dialysis Patient Scholarship Program
- Culpepper Exum Scholarship for Kidney Patients (KS and MO only)
- The David Nelson Jr. Memorial Fund Scholarship
- Diabetes Scholars
- The Dialysis Scholarship Fund
- Dialysis Scholarship Fund
- DisABLEDperson
- Georgia Transplant Foundation
- Google Lime Scholarship
- Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative
- The Kim and Harold Louie Family Foundation
- LUPUS Inspiration Foundation for Excellence
- National Kidney Foundation of Michigan (MI only)
- NKF of Utah and Idaho (UT and ID only)
- Organ Donation Scholarship
- Patient Advocate Foundation
- Peter and Bruce Bidstrup Memorial Scholarship
- The Pugh Scholarship (MI only)
- Richie's Spirit Foundation
- Rick Salick Memorial Scholarship (FL only)
- Scholarships.com
- Scholarship America
- Scholarships for Women
- TRIO Scholarships
Arizona
Arkansas
- Carolyn Wilson Dialysis Patient Scholarship Program – Must be a resident of either Arkansas, Louisiana, or Oklahoma
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Louisiana
- Carolyn Wilson Dialysis Patient Scholarship Program – Must be a resident of either Arkansas, Louisiana, or Oklahoma
Massachusetts
Missouri
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Oklahoma
- Carolyn Wilson Dialysis Patient Scholarship Program – Must be a resident of either Arkansas, Louisiana, or Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Utah
Virginia
General Scholarships
People applying for a scholarship must be able to show they are excellent at:
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Explaining intent or need
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Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) has information to help you write the best scholarship application possible.
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