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Application Opens March 1, 2024!

March 1, 2024  

Application Open

April 21, 2024 

Application Closes

April 21 - May 17, 2024

Review of Applications

May 20, 2024

Applicants Notified of Interview Selections

May 27 - June 7, 2024 

Interviews

June 14, 2024

Applicants Notified of Final Selections

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Much More than a Scholarship!

At Palmer Scholars, we are committed to helping our Scholars achieve their educational and professional goals. We know through experience that our work cannot stop after scholarship checks go out. Our “Whole Scholar” model is a holistic approach that provides opportunities for our committed staff, board, and community volunteers to support Scholars in most all areas of life, not just what is generally encapsulated in college access programs.

What are the Benefits of Being a Palmer Scholar?

Support from our dedicated staff, Board of Director, and volunteers throughout your college journey and beyond

Monthly college readiness trainings

A mentor who provides 1-on-1 support

Matched with an internship during your senior year of high school

Up to $17,500 in financial support:

$2,500 annual scholarship for up to 5 years

$500 living/personal expense and $500 book/supply stipend while enrolled

A freshmen year "send-off package" including a laptop and dorm room essentials ($500 value)

Ongoing career exploration and professional/personal development opportunities

"From at risk high school kids who are first in family to graduate high school to twin doctors, if this doesn’t show the value of mentorship and a scholarship like the Palmer Scholarship, I don’t know what does!”

– Ruben Burbank, MD, Palmer Alumnus

What is the Time Commitment?

Attend one to two trainings per month between spring semester of you junior year through the summer after graduating high school.

Trainings are a hybrid model that occur during the evenings throughout the academic year * mornings throughout the summer months

Attend Palmer Scholar events throughout your time as a Scholar.

Be an active participant at all trainings and events.

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Am I Eligible?

To be eligible for Palmer Scholars you must:

Identify as a person of color

Be a high school junior attending a Pierce County

high school 

Be actively involved in your school and community

Have at minimum a 2.0 GPA

Demonstrate financial need (free/reduced

lunch eligible)

Palmer Sunrise Rotary Challenge Scholarship

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Palmer Scholars has partnered with the Tacoma Sunrise Rotary Club to administer the Palmer Sunrise Rotary Challenge Scholarship (PSRCS). PSRC Scholars will receive all of the benefits of traditional Palmer Scholars, though their scholarship dollars come from the Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation. The PSRCS is open to all juniors enrolled at Lincoln High School that meet our eligibility requirements.  The PSRCS only seeks to identify students at Lincoln High School who have persevered through significant hardship and are college bound. The submission deadline for the PSRCS is the same as the general Palmer Scholars application.   

Please complete the main application to apply for the Palmer Sunrise Rotary Challenge Scholarship and when prompted, select that you would like to be considered for the Sunrise Rotary Challenge Scholarship.

Are you between the ages of 16-24 and not currently enrolled in school?

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Our Palmer Pathways Initiative serves young adults ages 18-26 from Pierce County who are not currently enrolled in school and desire to pursue a career in the trades. We go above and beyond to ensure the success of our Scholars, and participation in our program requires a high level of commitment. 

 SUPPORT OUR MISSION TODAY!

Palmer Scholars acknowledges that our work is carried out on, and our office space is located within, occupied Coast Salish land, specifically that of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. We pay respect to Coast Salish Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants and to all Indigenous peoples. To acknowledge this land is to recognize its longer history and our place in that history; it is to recognize these lands and waters and their significance for the peoples who lived and continue to live in this region, whose practices and spiritualties were and are tied to the land and the water, and whose lives continue to enrich and develop in relationship to the land, waters, and other inhabitants today.

 

We also pause to recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our country, state, and institutions are built.

We remember that our country is built on the labor of enslaved people who were kidnapped and brought to the U.S. from the African continent and recognize the continued contribution of their survivors. We also acknowledge all immigrant labor, including voluntary, involuntary, trafficked, forced, and undocumented peoples who contributed to the building of the country and continue to serve within our labor force. We acknowledge all unpaid care-giving labor.

 

To the people who contributed this immeasurable work and their descendants, we acknowledge our/their indelible mark on the spaces in which we operate today. It is our collective responsibility to critically interrogate these histories, to repair harm, and to honor, protect, and sustain this land.

Physical Address - 

4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW BLDG 16

Lakewood WA 98499-4004

Phone -

Tricia Speid (CEO) (253) 617-5676

Mailing Address - 

PO Box 7119, Tacoma, WA 98417

Email - info@palmerscholars.org

To contact someone directly visit our staff page here: Our Team

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