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Supporting Student Success

The Foundation Scholarship fund was established to provide funds to students of the PXU who are pursuing a post-secondary education.

New applications

PXU Graduating Students

All students graduating May, 2025 from a PXU school who will attend a post-secondary school (university, community college, or accredited trade school) in the Fall of 2025 and Spring of 2026 are eligible to apply for these scholarships.

If you are selected for a scholarship you will be notified at the end of March and the award will be released to the scholarship office of your school.

Important Dates:
Application Opens: Currently Open
Application Closes: December 31, 2024
Scholarships Reception: April 2025
Scholarships sent to school of choice: June-August 2025

New Application

AvAnzando Scholarships

Previous PXU Scholarship Awardees

PXU ALUMNI: Alumni Award Scholarships are available to students who were awarded a one-time scholarship award from the Phoenix Union Foundation for Education. These awards will vary in amount based on the students who apply and the funds available each year. This award application is by invitation only.

Foundation scholarship

award Renewals

Renewal Criteria

Scholarship renewals are available to students who were awarded a Foundation Scholarship for more than one year. The renewal each year is conditional pending verification that student has maintained all criteria and are contingent on review of final semester grades. Below are the required pieces of the renewal process.

Please contact scholarships@foundation4education.org or 480-269-3634 if you have questions.

Renewal Application
Renewal Application (via Arizona Community Foundation)
- Transcripts – 2.5 GPA required
- School information – Must be an Arizona university, community college or accredited vocational/trade school
- Personal statement
- School Information
Meeting with the Scholarship Committee

The 2025 meeting dates will be January 6th & 7th, 2025. A meeting with the scholarship committee will be scheduled mid-year. This gives us the opportunity to stay in touch with you and see if you need any assistance meeting the renewal requirements. You will be contacted regarding this meeting in late fall or early winter. Please make sure you have updated any necessary contact information in your Arizona Community Foundation account so we are able to reach you.
Communication Piece

Communication piece is as follows:

Can be a video (can be taken with your phone) providing a testimonial of the impact of your scholarship, a service project, or leadership involvement that has been meaningful to you and why.

OR

a written testimonial based on the guidelines and prompt below

2025 communication prompt TBD.

Communication pieces will be published.
Community Service Hours

COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS (13 TOTAL)

Seven (7) hours of service at your college, university, and/or accredited vocational school community. Can be part of a service with a student organization on campus (ie. Changemaker Central (ASU), Volunteer Services (UA), and American Medical Student Association (AMSA to name a few.)

Six (6) hours of service with an organization of choice (ie. St. Vincent de Paul, Be a Leader, Aliento). This can also be completed with a college/university/accredited vocational or trade school organization should the scholar choose.

***Community service hours cannot include activities like student teaching. Hours must be separate from what you are earning school credit and/or getting paid for as part of work.***