Fadel Educational Foundation, Inc.

 

FEF, Inc., is a non-profit educational foundation supporting education for Muslim U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The awards are distributed on a need/merit basis up to $2,000 a year for post-secondary education.

Applications for 2008-9 are no longer available. Applications for 2009-10 will in sha Allah be available in February 2009.

Awardees for 2008-9 should have received an e-mail informing them that they have received an award. The foundation has awarded nearly $62,000 in 2008-9 to applicants. Recipients of grants should review these Instructions for Recipients to facilitate disbursement.

Further information is available from FEF's Frequently Asked Questions document.

To receive announcements about the foundation's activities, updates to the web site and reminders on application deadlines, visit the Yahoo! Group for the Fadel Educational Foundation. FEF no longer accepts applications from prisoners. You can review other scholarships and internship opportunities at the bottom of this page.

 

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The contact information for FEF is as follows:

 

E-mail: afadel@bww.com

Fadel Educational Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 212135, Augusta, GA 30917-2135

Voice mail: +1 484-694-1783

 

The Fadel Educational Foundation, Inc. (the "Foundation"), is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Georgia. The Foundation also enjoys tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America. The Foundation was founded in 1992 by members of the Fadel Family with the aim of encouraging American Muslims to pursue higher education by providing qualified applicants with monetary assistance to help them achieve their educational ambitions. Since its founding in 1992, the Foundation has distributed over $600,000 in grants to American Muslims without regard to the applicant's race, gender, sect, or ethnicity. In addition to cash grants to applicants, the Foundation has established a modest endowment that is used to help defray certain operating costs of the Foundation. All of the Foundation's activities have been funded by the donations of individual members of the Fadel family.

 

Because the foundation receives requests for information about other funding opportunities available to Muslim students, it has compiled a non-comprehensive list of scholarships and internships. The foundation assumes no liability for the content of these external links and does not endorse the programs or the organizations which sponsor them. If you want a scholarship or internship program to be list, please contact FEF.

 

Other Scholarships:

 

  • Barakat Foundation: Financial Support for Students and Scholars of Islamic Culture
  • Arab-American Institute’s List of Scholarships
  • King Faisal Foundation Scholarship
  • The Canadian Islamic Congress’s New Media Scholarship. Visit the web site and type in "scholarship" in the search box.
  • The Alireza Family International Scholarship, established in 2000 to provide scholarships for highly qualified Muslim students who need financial assistance to be able to enroll at Tufts University in Boston, MA, USA. As of February 4, 2008, I could not find a current link for this on the Tufts University web site.
  • Islamic Schools’ League of America Scholarship helps Muslim students attend private Islamic schools in the United States
  • The Roothbert Fund, Inc. Applications are available November 1 to January 31 for the following school year. Applicants should reside in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, or North Carolina. Interviews are held in March of each year at Fund headquarters in New York City and currently also in Washington, DC, New Haven, and Philadelphia.
  • The Chicagoland Muslim Scholarship Fund assists undergraduate Muslim students in 4-yr colleges in the Chicagoland area.
  • Arab American Institute Foundation's Al Muammar Scholarship for Journalism
  • Muslim Youth Leadership Awards Scholarship for Minnesota Muslims http://www.mylawards.org/
  • Sisters in Solidarity to Educate, Respond & Serve (S.I.S.T.E.R.S.) provided two $1,000 scholarships in 2007.
  • Texas Muslim Scholarship Fund (TMSF) : This project's purpose is to create an endowment fund that would grant annual scholarships to students studying in Texas in under-represented public affairs fields such as Journalism and Law.
  • Dr. Abdulmunim A. Shakir Scholarship: Twenty Students entering their first semester of college in the Fall of 2008 will be awarded this scholarship based on merit, academic achievement, and financial need. Interested students should contact legacy "at" isna.net for more information and how to apply.

Internship Opportunities

 

Last updated September 20, 2008..