High school seniors urged to apply

For the 26th year, Coastal Community Foundation announces the availability of scholarships and encourages eligible high school seniors in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties who are planning to pursue a four-year college degree to apply for these awards by March 19.

Awards of $500-$10,000 will be made from 23 scholarship funds. In submitting one application, students become candidates for all awards for which they qualify.

Scholarship fund descriptions and applications are available from area high school guidance counselors or at the Web site www.coastalcommunityfoundation.org/nonprofits/scholarships.html.

Funds providing scholarships this year are:

Banks-Williams-Banks Fund: for students of Summerville High School.

Burke Promise Fund: for students of Burke High School.

Rufus C. Barkley, Jr. Leadership Scholarship Fund: for any tri-county or Colleton County student.

Seymour I. Barkowitz Fund: for students who will attend the College of Charleston.

Thaddeus Bell II Memorial Scholarship: for students to attend Morehouse College.

Isaiah Bennett Memorial Scholarship: for African-American students in Awendaw-McClellanville.

Juanita and W. Melvin Brown Jr. Fund: for Catholic, African-American students.

Charleston First Responders Scholarship: for volunteer or professional members of fire, police or EMS units and their immediate dependents.

T.C. Drayton Scholarship Fund: for students of the East Side community of Charleston.

Morris D. Finkelstein Scholarship: for student athletes.

Gadsden Fund: for students in Berkeley and Dorchester counties.

Phillip O'Neill Hanvey Fund: for Charleston County students.

Lawrence A. Holt Scholarship Fund: for African-American seniors at Garrett Academy.

Jefferson Scholarship Endowment: for undergraduate degrees in nursing.

J.C. and Alberta Long Fund: for any tri-county resident.

Jack C. Muller Fund: for residents of properties owned or managed by the Housing Authority of the city of Charleston.

Warren O. Pinckney Fund: for any tri-county resident.

P&B Music Scholarship Fund: for tri-county African-Americans to major in music.

Esther Lorine Bailey Rivers Fund: for college-bound students who attend Mount Carmel AME Church.

Santee Club Fund: for senior living between McClellanville and the South Santee River.

William Ferguson Seabrook Scholarship Endowment for Morris Brown AME Youth: for students who attend Morris Brown AME and attended Title I public schools, K-12.

Jasiri Whipper Scholarship Endowment: for African-American seniors who will attend a historically black college or university or a South Carolina public college.

Wofford College Fund: for students bound for Wofford.