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Offers support that can be awarded to two year and four year universities, post secondary technical and trade schools, and limited funding for graduate studies.

Provides employment and training support to individuals of Native American, Alaskan, and Hawaiian descent. Services include financial aid for education and job training programs, help with employment-related issues (resume writing, interview skills, etc.), vocational assessment, referral to other available programs, and direct job referrals/placements.

Offers information and referral, legislative advocacy, and training for families caring for foster, adoptive, or kinship children. Also raises funds to provide extras and scholarships for foster children and children adopted from foster care.

Scholarship memberships. Funding is available for low income families and individuals. Financial aid pays for a percentage of the membership fees.

Provides need-based, partial scholarships through a random lottery hosted in December and March.

Provides emergency aid, in the form of either a direct grant (a cash gift, not to be repaid) or an interest-free loan, and by giving college scholarships to children of soldiers.

Provides scholarships for higher education to high school students. Scholarships may be used at two-year and four-year colleges and nursing, business, and vocational schools. The number of scholarships and the amount varies yearly depending on fund-raising activities.

Manages more than 100 scholarships available to high school students.

Provides grants, scholarships, and support for students attending private K through 12 schools in Allegheny County. Offers various initiatives designed to promote community collaboration and wealth building.

Provides a $100 to $500 cash award to High School Seniors who show the most improvement during their senior year in grades, attendance, behavior, effort and service to others.

Provides $100 to all children born in 2019 and after (including those who are adopted) for postsecondary expenses.

Provides scholarships for non-traditional students and supports other nonprofit organizations working to advance the status of women.

Provides up to a $2,000 scholarship for the purpose of tuition reimbursement, course books, enrollment fees and fees associated with certification and testing.

Community Action Groups

Educational Gratuity program provides financial assistance to children of honorably discharged veterans who have service-connected disabilities and served during a period of war or armed conflict or children of veterans who die or died in service during a period of war or armed conflict. Payment will not exceed $500.00 per term or semester per qualified child to each approved educational institution upon submission by that approved educational institution of proof of matriculation of the applicant. Educational gratuity payments are paid directly to the Educational Institution and may not be made for longer than 4 scholastic years.

Provides reentry services that include housing, mentoring (groups, families, one-on-one), family reunification, case management, housing for battered women and children, referrals, and services for at-risk youth. Also provides an annual scholarship to local seniors through the Julian Mallory Scholarship Fund.

Provides annual financial scholarships to high school graduates going on to college and training programs.

Provides up to $1,500 in financial aid per year for expenses related to attending college, trade school or other specialized training to gain employment.

Provides grants for postsecondary school education.

Offers active Military and Veterans enrollment in on campus or online degree programs at Duquesne. Veteran Services include: Duquesne University participates in the Post-9/11 GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible veterans can receive a tuition waiver from Duquesne. Combined with additional financial assistance from the VA, this allows veterans (and in some cases family members) to study tuition-free as an undergraduate or graduate student.

Initiative providing educational improvement scholarships for children through the assignment of tax credits to donors. Also supports summer learning for children K-5.

Serves income eligible individuals to enter or move up in the nursing and healthcare career pathways as a Direct Care Worker (DCW), Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Phlebotomy Technician, Medical Front Office Specialist, Electronic Health Records Specialist, Medical Billing Specialist, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Sterile Processing Technician, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), and Registered Nurse (RN). To be eligible for the WATCH Project, you must be a resident of Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, or Union county and have your high school diploma or GED.

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and , in particular, to encourage and foster: FIRST - The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; SECOND - High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society; THIRD - The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business, and community life; FOURTH- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Student Veterans of America (SVA) provides military veterans with the resources, support, and advocacy necessary to succeed in higher education and following graduation.

Various types educational workshops for students that are in middle school to college level, to help and assist in their developement.