AVERY COUNTY — Students from western North Carolina whose ability to pay for higher education was negatively impacted by Hurricane Helene can now apply for the North Carolina Community Foundation’s Disaster Relief and Resilience Scholarship.
The Scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students from 29 western North Carolina counties attending two and four-year colleges and universities. There is no cost to apply. Students can apply online using NCCF’s Universal Scholarships Application, which matches information about the student with criteria for approximately 130 NCCF scholarships.
Detailed instructions about how to apply are available at nccommunityfoundation.org/Scholarships. The deadline for 2025 applications is March 3 at 11:59 p.m…