Grit Scholarship
Scholarship Details
The Grit Scholarship will be awarded to deserving college students majoring in Journalism during the 2021-2022 school year.
Scholarship amount: $5,000
This is not a renewable scholarship opportunity.
Scholarship timeline
Applications have now closed. Scholarship recipients will be announced in late August.
Applications are reviewed and scored by the N-SPIRE Committee, NAACP leaders who volunteer their time to read applications, review transcripts, and select recipients for approval. If selected, you will be notified through the N-SPIRE scholarship portal. Decisions of the selection committee are final and cannot be appealed.
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
- Ida B. Wells, NAACP co-founder and investigative journalist