Achieve Your Potential With a CONW Scholarship!

Helping women of color realize their dreams of a college education is one of the most powerful ways we Lift as We Climb. CONW is proud to offer two scholarship pathways for women of color pursuing their educational goals.

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CONW Endowed Scholarship
at The University of Akron

In the 1970s, the City of Akron razed many homes as part of its urban renewal program. One of them was located on Wooster Avenue and had been owned by the CONW since 1941. It had offered safe, affordable housing to generations of single African-American women attending The University of Akron, who were either not welcome at whites-only hotels or not affluent enough to afford other types of lodging. The city paid the CONW $17,648 for the house – and that money was used to create our endowed scholarship. Careful stewardship has maintained and grown those funds, allowing us to award more than $82,000 in scholarship money to women of color studying at The University of Akron since 1982.

Criteria for Qualification for the Endowed CONW Scholarship

Applicants for this scholarship must be:

Women of color

Enrolled at The University of Akron

Studying at the Sophomore level or higher

Maintaining a GPA of 2.7 or higher

Deadline is June 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.

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Verna Tucker Scholarship

Verna N. Blake-Tucker was an Akron woman with a generous heart. She was also one of the longest-serving members of the CONW, so she saw what a difference our endowed scholarship made in the lives of many women. When she passed in 2008, she donated a large sum of money to the CONW – and we could think of no better way to honor her spirit and memory than by using it for another scholarship! Remember her as you rise above expectations – and be sure to Lift as You Climb!

Criteria for Qualification for the Verna Tucker Scholarship

Applicants for this scholarship must be:

Women of color from the Akron area

Enrolled at any university