In the News Archives - Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation

Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Announces Record-Breaking Number of Scholarships to Relieve Financial Burdens for more than 2,300 Marine Families

ALEXANDRIA,VA (July 27, 2016) – Today, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children, announced it will award a record-breaking number of scholarships to thousands of Marine and Navy Corps families. For the upcoming 2016-17 academic year, the Scholarship Foundation will award more than 2,330 scholarships, […]

Scholarship Foundation Announces Historic $16.5 Million Donation

Capri Sun Founder Donates Record-Breaking $16.5 Million in Scholarships to Military Children The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation partners with Dr. Hans-Peter Wild to provide scholarships to thousands ALEXANDRIA, VA (January 7, 2015) – Announced today, Dr. Hans-Peter Wild, German entrepreneur and innovator of the beloved international Capri Sun drink, has donated $16.5 million to the […]

Families in Tri-state Area Get Boost Through Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation

Pittsburgh Tribune-Reivew RICK MILLS Caitlyn Schrout has her work cut out for her over the next four years at West Virginia University. A freshman double major in electrical and mechanical engineering, Schrout is the recipient of a four-year, $1,700 annual scholarship from the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. “Without this scholarship, I’d have to get a […]

Aquino Family Values? Honor, Courage, Commitment

Ellyssa Aquino is the daughter of Gunnery Sergeant Pedro Aqunio USMC. Service shaped his life, the injuries he sustained in Iraq changed it forever, and now thanks to his daughters and the enduring spirit of Semper Fidelis that he instilled in them, the Aquino family is serving as a shining example of Honor, Courage and […]

$ 7 Million in Awards Sets Historic Year of Scholarship

The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children, announced it will award, an historic, 2,300 scholarships, valued at nearly $7 million to children of Marine and Navy Corpsmen for the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year. In our 53rd year of Honoring Marines by Educating their Children, we’ve […]

America’s Future Needs You

Forbes DON ESMOND, CONTRIBUTOR I’m proud to be a Marine, albeit one who can’t fit comfortably into my old uniform anymore, and proud of my long association with Toyota Motor Corporation. So it was doubly rewarding to attend a recent event in our nation’s capital to both support the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and honor […]

Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Nourishes Dreams of Military Children

Del Mar Times JEANNE MCKINNEY, STAFF WRITER The Hilton Del Mar hosted a gathering of supporters and friends for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation’s inaugural San Diego Awards dinner recently. As the nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military families, the foundation was there to honor major donors, Marines, and children of […]

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Marine Corps Foundation Provides Scholarship Help

The Philadelphia Inquirer Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer Kerry Walters Jr. might not be attending the University of Pennsylvania without the help of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. It would have been too costly. His family’s finances were stretched thin, partly because his father, a Marine, was wounded during the Vietnam War and his earning ability […]

Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Receives Donation for Brighter Future

FORT GEORGE G. Meade, Md. — The 2013-2014 college school year had price tags ranging from $8,000 to more than $30,000.The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation received a $1.25 million dollar donation from PwC Charitable Foundation on Jan. 14, 2015. The donation will help mitigate the cost of higher education for the children of Marines and […]

The PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. Donates $1.25M to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation to Support Education Scholarships for Military Children

ALEXANDRIA, VA (January 14, 2015) – Today, the PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. announced a $1.25 million donation to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. The donation will help provide hundreds of higher education need-based scholarships over the next five years to children of Marines […]