The Kohlberg-Manacher Foundation ('KMF') provides academic scholarships and mentoring to bright, ambitious, hard-working students from lower-income, less privileged families in the Greater Boston and San Diego Communities.

Applicants must have graduated (or will soon graduate) high school in the Greater Boston or San Diego communities and/or have been accepted as a full-time student (any year) at a college, university, vocational, or graduate school.

Selection criteria include, yet is not limited to:

• Evidence of high levels of ambition, resiliency and maturity
• Academic record, sports, other extra-curricular activities, and/or unique capabilities
• Personal and/or family circumstances
• Commitment to giving back to the local community and other KMF scholarship awardees