200 Free Scholarships for Minorities
RACE EQUITY LINKS
Black Excel: The College Help Network
Description: A listing of college scholarship opportunities for African American students compiled by Black Excel, an organization dedicated to helping African American families navigate the college admissions process.
A Select Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
Javanoir
Description: Links to resources on education for African Americans, including scholarship information.
African American Achievement in America
The Education Trust
Description: You must click on the Education Watch State and National Data to access this report on a pdf file. This brief two-pager documents the current status of African American Achievement in America, High-Performing Schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.
Afrocentric Learning Tools
Multiple Shades of You Online
Description: The mission of Afrocentric Learning Tools is to highlight products and services that aim to educate Black Students and promote the development of multicultural educational tools. The site includes lesson plan ideas, product reviews, news and resources for Black parents, Educators of Black Students, and African American Homeschoolers. As well as entertainment and online activities for young black boys, girls, and older teens.
American Association for Affirmative Action
Description: The association of professionals managing affirmative action, equal opportunity, diversity and other human resource programs.
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
Description: An organization dedicated to combatting anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry in all forms.
Applied Research Center
Description: "A public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change."
Asian American LEAD
Description: Asian American LEAD (AALEAD) seeks to promote the well-being of Asian American youth and families through education, leadership development, and community-building. AALEAD focuses on the Vietnamese, Amerasian, and Chinese immigrant and refugee communities in Washington, DC and in the Glenmont, Silver Spring and Wheaton areas of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC)
Description: The APALRC's mission is to advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Americans in the Washington metropolitan community through activities in two core program areas: Direct Legal Services and Advocacy.
Asian Women's Self Help Association
Asian Women's Self Help Association (ASHA, Inc.)
Description: The Asian Women's Self Help Association (ASHA, Inc.) is an organization based in the Washington, DC area dedicated to providing culturally specific, multi-lingual support and referral services to women of South Asian descent.
Black Excel: The College Help Network
Description: Black Excel is an organization that helps African American families navigate the college admissions process.
Black Mom's Club
Description: A social networking community for Black Moms, WAHM, and Momprenuers to connect with friends, talk, blog, share photos, get advice, and so much more.
Black Woman and Child
Description: Black Woman and Child is a new magazine dedicated to serving the interests of Black women who are or have been pregnant, plan to become pregnant and/or have a child or children aged seven years and under.
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE)
Description: One of three National Research and Development Centers funded through the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students.
Digital Divide
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
Equity Assistance Centers (EAC)
(formerly Desegregation Assistance Centers)
Description: The ten Equity Assistance Centers are funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They provide assistance in the areas of Race, Gender, and National Origin equity to public schools to promote equal educational opportunities.
Guide to Help African-American Parents Improve Their Children's Education
The Education Trust
Description: To access this guide, click on the above and go to Publications for Parents. This guide gives African-American parents the necessary tools needed to advocate and improve their child’s education.
Harvard Civil Rights Project
Harvard University
Description: A project that produces original research on civil rights and equal opportunity policies to inform the design and implementation of those policies.
Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association
Description: MVMA’s mission is to serve, support, and advance the Vietnamese American community.
Minority Student Achievement Network
Description: The Minority Student Achievement Network is a national coalition of multiracial, relatively affluent suburban school districts that have come together to study the disparity in achievement between white students and students of color through intensive research. The Network was established to discover, develop, and implement the means to ensure high academic achievement of minority students.
National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE)
Description: "A member, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the educational accomplishments of African American youth through the development and deployment of instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance and overall achievement."
National Association for Multicultural Education
Description: A national membership organization consisting of individuals and groups -- from all levels of education, different academic disciplines and diverse educational institutions -- who have an interest in multicultural education.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Description: The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities
Description: The National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities (NAEAACLD) was founded in 1999 for the purpose of increasing awareness and promoting an understanding of the specific issues facing African American children. The organization’s mission is to link information and resources provided by an established network of individuals and organizations experienced in minority research and special education with parents, educators, and others responsible for providing a quality education for all students.
National Congress of Black Women (NCBW)
Description: "A non-partisan political organization that addresses the aspirations and concerns of the African American community, with special attention to the unique and particular needs of African American women and youth."
National Education Association (NEA)
Description: "America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education."
National Urban League
Description: "The nation's oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream. Its mission is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights."
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
U.S. Department of Education
Organization of Chinese Americans
Description: The OCA is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States.
People for the American Way
Description: An organization "committed to defending democracy and bringing the ideals of community, opportunity, diversity, equality and fairness together to form a strong, united voice."
Project Equality
Description: "A national program with over 35 years of experience in working to change employment practices by utilizing the purchasing power of its members to encourage and motivate suppliers of goods and services to take affirmative employment actions."
Publications and Fact Sheets on Health Issues for African Americans
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Description: Links to articles on health issues affecting African American families.
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Description: "A non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. dedicated to improving the education of African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans."
Southeast Asian Community Center
Description: This community center offers online resources that include a newsletter designed to provide teachers and others with information on newcomers to classrooms.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Description: "A non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation."
Teaching For Change
(formerly Network of Educators on the Americas - NECA)
Description: A Washington, DC-based not-for-profit organization that promotes social and economic justice through public education.
The Black Family Network
Career Communications Group, Inc (CCG)
Description: Career Communications Group, Inc (CCG) was founded over 20 years ago with a unique mission: To promote significant minority achievement in engineering, science and technology. One of its goals is to promote opportunities for the Black Community to take a leadership role in developing and teaching its children and professionals about the work of technology.
The Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington (KCSC)
Description: The Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington (KCSC) is a human service organization whose mission is to assist and empower Asian Americans and new immigrants to become well-adjusted and fully contributing members of the United States through social services, education, advocacy, and development of resources.
Urban Institute
Description: A nonprofit policy research organization whose goals are to "sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices."