Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund
In Partnership with ARISE
“In 1980, nearly 40 years after the wartime incarceration of all Japanese living on the West Coast, a small group of New England Japanese Americans established a scholarship program called the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund (NSRCF). They were all Nisei, second-generation American-born descendants of Japanese immigrants.
The NSRCF honors the Nisei and pays tribute to the individuals and organizations that reached across racial differences and wartime hatred to help the Nisei students. The NSRCF is a national scholarship program created to address the needs of the Southeast Asian community, an important and growing part of many American cities. A major challenge facing these families is finding resources to support their children’s educational goals. The NSRCF travels to a different community each year offering scholarships to graduating Southeast Asian high school students.”
— From NSRCFund.org
We are happy to announce that ARISE has been selected to partner with the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund to award $57,000 in scholarships.
Scholarships will be awarded for the 2021-2022 academic year to Rhode Island high school seniors who identify as Southeast Asian. If you are currently a high school senior who identifies as SEA (Khmer, Hmong, Lao, Vietnamese) please review an application below to see if you’re eligible to apply.
Questions? Check out the application resources and tips found on the NSRCF site or email us at hello@ariseducation.org.
The deadline for this application has passed.
The NSRCF has awarded nearly 1,000 scholarships to high school seniors, totaling over 1 million dollars
