CCi’s Quick List of Adoptee Scholarships

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NOTE: If you know of a scholarship for adoptees, please let us know so we can add it to this ever-growing list.

Adoption Network Law Center Scholarship The Adoption Network Law Center offers scholarships amounting up to $10,000 to individuals seeking higher education. Applicants must submit a video demonstrating or explaining how adoption has made an impact on their lives. (Sometimes the scholarships are only for Birth Parents, however, they also offer scholarships for adoptees.)

Also-Known-As Adoptee Excellence Scholarship The adoptee-led organization Also-Known-As has established a scholarship program to acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments of young dynamic adoptees attending college. The Also-Known-As Adoptee Excellence Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship for an outstanding graduating high school senior or undergraduate student who was adopted to the United States from another country.

Walter J. Poirier Endowment Scholarship Korean Adoptee Chris Poirier partners with ASIA Families to establish an annual college scholarship for adoptees in memory of Chris’s brother, Walter Jonathan Poirier.