ABOUT US

The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute
This website is an initiative of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI), a nonprofit organization that advances informed policy on key issues affecting Latino communities through objective and timely research contributing to the betterment of the nation.

TRPI is an affiliated research unit of the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and is associated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University.

The Scholarship Project
In 2005, The Walt Disney Company commissioned a TRPI study titled College Scholarships for Latino Students: Are Opportunities Being Missed?, which found that online scholarship information was plentiful but often outdated, not actively disseminated, and in English only.

In November 2006, with funding from The Sallie Mae Fund, The Walt Disney Company, and Southern California Edison, TRPI was able to develop an inaugural scholarship directory that listed all regional organizations that awarded grants and scholarships targeting eligible California Latino students.  At the same time, AT&T funded the creation of the original online directory, which builds on the printed directory and findings of the original TRPI study and provides the most updated information possible.

In September 2007, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, The Sallie Mae Fund, and The Walt Disney Company funded the expansion of the directory so that it would be national, listing all organizations that TRPI could identify that award grants and scholarships targeting eligible Latino students.

Disclaimer
TRPI acknowledges that new scholarship opportunities are becoming available on a continual basis, and urges visitors to submit new scholarship listings or corrections to TRPI.

TRPI also encourages students to check for scholarships from colleges or universities they are attending, as specific scholarships may be available that are not found in this directory.