Scholarship Opportunities

UFCW Local 360 Scholarship

The Scholarship Fund of UFCW Local 360 is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2025. To be eligible, all applications and required documents must be postmarked on or before April 30, 2025.

Union Plus Scholarship

Application deadline: 12:00 PM (Noon, Eastern Standard Time), Wednesday January 31, 2025.

Award date:  May 31, 2025. During the first week of June 2025 award recipients will be notified by postal mail, and all applicants will be sent email notification. 

UFCW International Scholarship

The UFCW is about workers coming together to build better lives for themselves.  It is about creating opportunity.  That is why each year the UFCW Charity Foundation awards several scholarships of up to $8,000 each to UFCW members or their unmarried dependents under the age of 20. 

Monmouth & Ocean Counties CLC Memorial Scholarship

Application deadline: Thursday, April 3, 2025

​Applicants must attend or plan to attend College, University, or Technical School, and be a member or the child of a current or deceased member of a union affiliated with the Monmouth and Ocean Central Labor Council AFL-CIO. 

Essex-West Hudson AFL-CIO Scholarship

Application deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025

10 scholarships of $100 each will be awarded for the 2025 academic year.​

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Scholarship Essay Contest 2025

Application Deadline: April 15, 2025

Awards: 1st Place - $2,000, 2nd Place - $1,500, 3rd Place - $1,000