2025 Scholarship Applications have Closed
Earlier this year, we announced our inaugural Carina Mae Scholars Fund, a collaboration across her family, close friends and community organizations she worked closely with. Our inaugural 2025 Fund awarded 3 scholarship recipients and 2 civic innovators who presented original and impactful civic research projects.
Please join us in congratulating our cohort of 2025 Carina Mae Scholars and Civic Innovators from across the country, which we announced on Carina’s Birthday - August 2nd.
Carina’s magnetism stemmed from the time, attention and care she poured into her personal and professional relationships.
To ensure we spread her legacy of time, the Fund is committed to making longer-term investments in the leadership and advocacy development of our recipients. This means that the Fund will not only provide monetary awards, it will support Scholars and Civic Innovators across a two-year span with continuous leadership development and civic engagement opportunities. Due to this, our Fund will not reopen till late-2026.
Our Fund will award the following:
[3] $1,000 scholarships to undergraduate or graduate students who blend their studies with social justice to advance the fields Carina devoted her life to: youth mentorship, leadership development, human services and Filipino American community issues.
Free admission to all LEAD Filipino boards and commission training and workshops in 2026.
$250 stipends to advance a civic engagement project or campaign in their local community during the spring/fall of 2026.
Questions:
info@carinamaescholars.org