The Kohlberg-Manacher Foundation ('KMF') provides $7,500 annual 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 have been accepted and/or already enrolled 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