CU Foundation Scholarship

Every year the Credit Union Scholarship Program offers $12,000 in scholarship funds to credit union members entering their freshmen through senior year of college or trade school may apply.

Eligible credit union members may apply for one of ten $1,000 essay-based scholarships and one of two $1,000 video-based scholarships. And yes, eligible members may apply in both categories!

The deadline for 2024 applications will be midnight, on April 15, 2024. Awards will be announced in June 2024. Please watch for the winners and plan on submitting your entries for the 2024 Scholarships beginning in September 2023 and running through April 15, 2024.

The 2024 year’s essay topic: “Explain the good habits you’ve developed for creating a sound financial future for you and your family. Additionally explain how your relationship with your credit union enhances or helps you establish or maintain those habits.”

The 2024 video topic: “Create a 60-second video depicting one or more good habits for making sound financial decisions and how your relationship with your credit union has helped to establish, enhance or maintain those habits.”

PLEASE NOTE: Parental membership does not qualify applicant. All applicants must themselves be a member of a participating credit union.

Applicants must be entering their freshman through senior year of college or trade school. This scholarship does not apply to students in post-graduate programs nor payment of student loans.

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This year’s essay topic:

“Explain the good habits you’ve developed for creating a sound financial future for you and your family. Additionally explain how your relationship with your credit union enhances or helps you establish or maintain those habits.”

This year’s video topic:

“Create a 60-second video depicting one or more good habits for making sound financial decisions and how your relationship with your credit union has helped to establish, enhance or maintain those habits.”

We’re pleased to offer this opportunity for our members. The awardees receive needed financial assistance to help them meet their tuition expenses and the application topics stimulate innovative and useful responses to help us better serve our members.

Applications are accepted online at: cufound.org/scholarship

Deadline for applications is April 15, 2024.
Scholarship winners will be announced in June 2024.

Police Federal Credit Union, the Credit Union Foundation MD|DC, and its generous supporters cooperate to make this scholarship program possible.

The Police Federal Credit Union, headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, is a full service, not-for-profit, financial institution that has been committed to protecting the financial interests of members of the law enforcement community and serving their financial needs since 1935.

The Police FCU is member-owned, and as a not-for-profit cooperative, any “profits” that the credit union makes are returned to members in the form of lower loan rates, low or no-fee products and services, and higher savings rates.

Police FCU serves over 12,500 members nationwide and is well established with assets exceeding $165 million.

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