Hispanic Scholarship Fund
55 2nd Street
Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94105
877-HSF-INFO (877-473-4636)
Fax: 415-808-2302
www.hsf.net

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) is the nation’s leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education. HSF was founded in 1975 with a vision to strengthen the country by advancing college education among Hispanic Americans—the largest minority segment of the U.S. population. In support of its mission to double the rate of Hispanics earning college degrees, HSF provides the Latino community more college scholarships and educational outreach support than any other organization in the country. It distributed twenty-five million in scholarships to Latinos in 2005–2006.

Hispanic College Fund
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 460
Washington, DC 20006
800-644-4223
www.hispanicfund.org

The Hispanic College Fund’s mission is to educate and develop the next generation of Hispanic professionals. Their scholarship programs focus on developing Latino youth who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in business, science, engineering, technology, and math.  They award merit- and need-based scholarships to Latino students and providing them with vision, resources, tools, and mentors so that they can achieve their full potential as professionals and leaders. In 2006, HCF awarded 550 scholarships, totaling $1.4 million.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
(MALDEF)
1717 K Street NW #311
Washington, DC 20036
202-293-2828
Fax: 202-293-2849
www.maldef.org 

MALDEF is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect and promote the civil rights of the more than forty million Latinos living in the United States. Making sure that there are no obstacles preventing this diverse community from realizing its dreams, MALDEF works to secure the rights of Latinos, primarily in the areas of employment, education, immigrants’ rights, political access, and public resource equity. Each year MALDEF awards numerous law school scholarships to deserving students entering their first, second or third year of law school. Scholarships range up to $7,000 per individual. In MALDEF’s website you can also find a list of scholarships for Latino students who are undocumented.

Gates Millennium Scholars
P.O. Box 10500
Fairfax, VA 22031
877-690-4677
www.gmsp.org

The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in all discipline areas and a graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education, library science, or public health. The scholarship offered by the Gates Foundation is administered through the United Negro College Fund, which partners with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

National Society of Hispanic MBAs
1303 Walnut Hill Lane, Suite 100
Irving, TX 75038
877-467-4622
www.nshmba.org

The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) serves 29 chapters and 6,000 members in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It exists to foster Hispanic leadership through graduate management education and professional development. NSHMBA works to prepare Hispanics for leadership positions throughout the U.S., so that they can provide the cultural awareness and sensitivity vital in the management of the nation’s diverse workforce. It offers scholarships to students pursuing their MBAs. It has offered over $1 million dollars in scholarships in 2005-2006.

League of United Latinoamerican Citizens (LULAC)
2000 L Street, NW
Suite 610
Washington, DC 20036
202-833-6130
www.lulac.org 

With approximately 115,000 members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups.

Historically, LULAC has focused heavily on education, civil rights, and employment for Hispanics. LULAC councils provide more than a million dollars in scholarships to Hispanic students each year, conduct citizenship and voter registration drives, develop low income housing units, conduct youth leadership training programs, and seek to empower the Hispanic community at the local, state and national level.