USA Funds Awards $250,000 to 20 Schools to Assist Students Affected by Hurricanes

USA Funds^® has announced grants totaling $250,000 to be awarded to 20 additional schools to help low-income students whose studies were disrupted by the major hurricanes in 2005.

The grants are from the Disaster Relief Fund for Postsecondary Education Students, which is managed by Scholarship America, the nation’s largest nonprofit, private-sector scholarship and educational-support organization. USA Funds established the fund with a $500,000 contribution for the 2004 hurricane season and committed an additional $2.3 million in 2005.

Initial awards totaling $918,000 to 45 colleges, universities and private career schools were announced shortly after the 2005 hurricanes. Twenty-six additional schools later were selected for grants totaling $626,000.

The latest schools selected to receive grants from the fund include:

Florida

• Florida Career College.
• Florida Education Center.
• Gulf Coast Community College.
• ITT Technical Institute, Miami.
• ITT Technical Institute, Fort Lauderdale.
• Key College.
• Virginia College at Pensacola.

Louisiana

• Diesel Driving Academy.
• Education Management Inc./Blue Cliff College.
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

Mississippi

• Antonelli College.
• Coahoma Community College.
• Day Spa Career College.

Tennessee

• MedVance Institute.
• Memphis College of Art.

Texas

• El Centro College.
• Houston’s Training and Education Center.
• Sanford Brown Institute.
• Sanford Brown Institute - North Loop Campus.
• Southwestern Professional Institute.