Featured Scholarship: "Honor the Past and Reimagine the Future"
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Find opportunities for scholarships in the state of Arizona granted for pursuing Early Childhood Professional Development. Need help with the scholarship process? View our Step-by-Step Scholarship Guide! Or view our informational flyers below.
Featured Scholarship
First Things First College Scholarship for Early Childhood Professionals
The FTF College Scholarship provides the early childhood workforce working directly with or on behalf of young children birth through age five access to education and training to achieve degrees, credentials and specialized skills to promote children’s development. The FTF College Scholarship may only be accessed by members of the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry. Please contact the Arizona Registry at info@thearizonaregistry.org or 1.855.818.6613 to apply for a scholarship.
Featured Incentive
The First Things First Bonus Program is a financial incentive offered to scholars who are continuing their education in the early childhood education field.
Additional Arizona Scholarships and Incentives
The Professional Career Pathway Project (PCPP) is a college scholarship funded by the DES Child Care Administration through federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds. If you are currently working in the field of early childhood you may be eligible for the PCPP scholarship.
The Arizona Teachers Academy at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College provides significant financial aid and distinctive educational and professional development experiences to students who are Arizona residents and commit to teaching in Arizona’s Title I schools after graduation.
Students can access over $2 million in scholarship money through Arizona Community Foundation for all types of degrees. Applicants can be high school seniors, current college students, or adult re-entry students. For more information, please visit: azfoundation.academicworks.com.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) is soliciting applications for Child Care Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on child care policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for child care policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students.
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is soliciting applications for the Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants to support dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are working in partnership with Head Start programs and with faculty mentors. Competitive applicants will 1) demonstrate a collaborative partnership with their program partners, and 2) pursue research questions that directly inform local, state, or federal policy relevant to multiple early care and education practices.
The AZ Earn to Learn (AZEL) program is a collaboration of the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University. Its purpose is to help limited-income Arizonans to save for college.
The Tuition Support Program is administered by Smart Support and is a program of Southwest Human Development. Its goal is to increase the number of mental health professionals in Arizona who have expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health disturbances and disorders that affect children in the birth to 5 age range and who have the knowledge and skills to help families and early childhood professionals in the community support the mental health and social-emotional development of young children.