Coast Guard Foundation Awards Scholarships

The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to strengthening the Coast Guard community and service by supporting members and families, announced that it awarded 167 scholarships in 2020, totaling $503,000 in support. Since the program began in 1990 the Coast Guard Foundation has awarded more than $6 million in scholarships to Coast Guard children ensuring they can afford to reach their higher education dreams.

Awardees include scholars such as Cierra DeCuire who has been accepted into the pharmacy program at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Landis Limon graduated from First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in June 2020, and is enrolled in William Peace University in Raleigh, North Carolina this fall. Quentin Ramos is enrolled for his freshman year at Rochester Institute of Technology this fall after graduating from the BASIS School in Washington, D.C. in June. Alejandro Romero of Bega Atta from Puerto Rico is in his senior year at Brown University, where he is double majoring in computer science and psychology.

“We are honored to provide support to Coast Guard youth who are pursuing their higher education goals,” said Susan Ludwig, president, Coast Guard Foundation. “Our support is only possible because of generous investments from individuals, families and foundations all across the country. When Coast Guard kids receive a Coast Guard Foundation scholarship, they incur less debt, and deepen their engagement with their communities by volunteering, working and interning in their chosen fields of study.”

For more on the Coast Guard Foundation’s scholarship program and the support given to Coast Guard members and their families, please view this video: https://youtu.be/i5HMW-zyO6s.

To learn more about the Coast Guard Foundation or to help support its work, please visit www.coastguardfoundation.org.