The Rainbow STEM Alliance (RSA) exists to promote acceptance and inclusion of LGBTQ+ youth in STEM educational fields or auxiliary fields that have direct interactions with STEM groups. We fully support the mission of FIRST and believe that promoting acceptance and inclusion is an essential part of engaging young people in STEM fields. We are proud to partner with CACI International's Pride Allyance to create an additional 3 scholarships for the fall of 2023. The RSA will be anonymizing the applications to the best of our ability, and providing those anonymized applications to our partners at CACI for review and the determination of recipients.

The Samara Fund (Samara) is a community-directed fund that helps ensure lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) Vermonters are connected, healthy, appreciated, safe, and empowered. **New framework for scholarship to release late 2022

For Asian/Pacific Islander youth, self-identified as LGBT with demonstrated involvement in the LGBT community. This scholarship is to help LGBT youth proudly achieve educational pursuits and dreams without shame. These scholarships are renewable for a maximum of three additional years (for a total of four years), provided each student annually meets the renewal requirements. **Awards up to four outstanding students annually **Deadline TBD, likely April

The Next Generation Project is an organization dedicated to distributing resources to Black and Brown Trans folks in need. There are 2 scholarships available to Black and Brown TGNC folk for $1500. After deliberating the committee will be contacting applicants by September 4th.

Temple University (TU) this fund provides scholarships for students who have been effective advocates for gay and lesbian causes.

This scholarship has been established to provide academic financial support for an undergraduate Temple student active in the LGBTQ community. Preference shall be given to students with financial need, but active leadership and advocacy for LGBTQ causes is paramount.*Winners selected annually

We have two scholarships available at $4,000/each for each cohort. If you belong to any group that is underrepresented in technology and you have been accepted to study at Turing, we invite you to apply. *Deadline varies by cohort

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Created by the Alliance for LGBT Equality - All applicants are evaluated on the totality of their situation, academic achievement, financial need, demonstrated service to the LGBTQ community, demonstrated leadership skills, and present and future goals. *Deadline TBD, likely in February

Funds four $1,500 scholarships for continuing UC Berkeley students who have demonstrated leadership in the LGBT community and have a strong record of academic excellence, volunteerism and achievement.