Scholarships
USACFA is proud to offer four scholarships for those who have CF and are seeking artistic and/or educational degrees granted from an institution in the United States.
You will not receive more than one scholarship award per academic year, but you may apply for more than one scholarship per academic year. Winners of any scholarship will be asked to share a high-resolution photo along with any social media handles to share on our social media and in our biannual magazine. Consent is not required for scholarship eligibility, but is highly encouraged so we can spotlight you and your work.
All USACFA scholarship awards are paid to the bursar’s office at each winner’s institution. These scholarships can cover any education-related costs paid through that office. This may include tuition, fees, materials, etc. depending on each awardee’s school and program.
A Message from Our Scholarships Team
We're grateful to all of our scholarship applicants for another fantastic season! As of today, all deadlines for the AY2026-2027 cycle have passed, which means it's time to close down applications on our website for the next few months to allow us to update our materials and procedures for future years.
This year we broke new ground with application volume across several of our funding portfolios. Thank you all for helping to make this such a great year! We'll be updating some of our procedures accordingly over the next few months to help everyone have a smooth experience with applications for AY2027-2028 and beyond.
To serve our adult CF community best, we will be making this downtime for scholarship applications standard in the second half of each calendar year. This will let us ensure our materials and procedures support current application volume, and also eliminate the possibility of application materials becoming dated by the time a deadline arrives.
Scholarship applications for the AY2027-2028 cycle will open up in early 2027. Stay tuned to our social media feeds for updates in the meantime! When applications reopen on the website for the new cycle, we will send out announcements on our feeds to make sure everyone has plenty of time to prepare materials.
Everyone is welcome to contact our Scholarships Chair Dr. Xan Nowakowski at xnowakowski@usacfa.org any time you have questions about our scholarships! We also encourage prospective applicants to view our informational webinar about the different scholarships we offer, which includes guidance on crafting strong applications.
And if you applied for our Higher Education Scholarship in honor of Lauren Melissa Kelly during the AY2026-2027 cycle, keep an eye on your email in late July! We're beginning to review those applications now that the deadline has passed, and will notify winners once all Board members have had a chance to vote on finalists.
The Ana and Isa Stenzel Scholarship may award one $1,000 scholarship annually to a person with CF. The student must be enrolled in a course of higher education leading to a degree in either health science, social work, mental health science, genetic counseling, or environmental science.
The William Coon Jr. Scholarship may award up to four $2,500 scholarships annually to people with CF. This scholarship is open to any student seeking a degree in business, economics, communications, political science, information, project management, finance, accounting, public administration, or marketing.
The Scholarship for the Arts may award two $5,000 scholarships annually to people with CF towards their tuition in their respective field of the arts: fine arts, computer graphics, design, music, choral, photography, filmmaking, creative writing, and poetry, to name a few. It is open to anyone seeking a degree, from an associate degree to a doctoral degree in the creative arts.​​
The Higher Education Scholarship may award up to two $2,500 scholarships annually to people with CF in memory of Lauren Melissa Kelly. The scholarships are awarded to two adults with CF who are pursuing career certifications, associates, bachelor, or graduate degrees.