Our Founder was recently honored with Ebony Magazine’s first MANIfest Awards for Educating Young Minds. The award highlighted nonprofit leaders who were focusing on black male achievement. The Scholarship Academy’s “I Am College Material” Project to engage 1000 black males in the pursuit of debt free degrees was a key focus of the award. <\/p>\n
This year, we will be focusing on three Atlanta area high schools and training our black male Scholarship Ambassadors to position black male high school juniors and seniors to claim scholarship success. Want to join our cause? Text “TSA” to 72727 and become a “Friend of The Scholarship Academy” Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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