The Sister Thea Bowman Foundation has four scholarships for African American singer mothers and their child to attend the College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska.  The foundation will grant $30,000.00 over a period of four years to the College of St. Mary on behalf of each student.  In return the College of St. Mary will match that grant with an additional $24.000.

The student must be an African-American single mother who has completed high school.  She must be from low income housing.   She must be able to gain admission to COllege of St. Mary. She need not be Catholic.  Each student will have an Afican American mentor during her course of study at the College of St Mary and they will also have an African American host family from Omaha who will also serve as mentor.  Each mother may take up to two children with her to the College.  The cut off age for the child is nine.  Each mother will live in a dorm which has been sepecially renovated to accommodate the mothers and their chidlren.  There are special facilities in the dorm such as playrooms, kitchens and baths built especially to facilitate living with children in a dorm.  Each student will have to fill out an applicationfor both the Sister Thear Bowman Foundation and for the College of St. Mary.

If interested, please contact Mary Lou Jennings, Executive Director of theSister Thea Bowman Foundation at:

marylouj@aol.com