Allen Family Career Advancement Grant (AFCAG)

The Allen Family Career Advancement Grant (AFCAG) offers financial support for credentialing, licensure, internships, degrees, or certificates for working residents in Essex, Elizabethtown, Lewis, Westport, or Willsboro, NY. Award amounts range from $250 to $3,000 annually, with renewal options available based on academic progress. This grant aims to enhance career opportunities and foster educational pathways, ensuring that eligible residents can pursue their professional goals effectively.

Scholarships
As one of five key interest areas for what we fund, creating educational pathways helps to ensure all students in the Adirondacks have meaningful opportunities to pursue post-secondary education, career training, and pathways to gainful employment and fulfilling lives. Scholarships can play a pivotal role in helping students better themselves, no matter their life stage or path.
Scholarship funds at Adirondack Community Foundation have been created to benefit specific educational institutions or fields of study. The most common way we distribute scholarships is in partnership with schools across our region that manage scholarship committees that select recipients based on guidelines set forth by fundholders. We also have some scholarship funds to which students can apply directly for support. All scholarship funds use a competitive application process to make decisions.
The Allen Family Career Advancement Grant (AFCAG) is an award for specific credentialing, licensure, internship, degree, or certificate program in a chosen field of work. It is available to assist working residents of Essex, Elizabethtown, Lewis, Westport or Willsboro NY looking to further their career ambitions. The grant may renew for the curriculum sought (at a potentially altered amount), provided the recipient furnishes evidence of satisfactory progress in their program's learning objectives. Grant awards may range between $250 - $3,000 a year. We ask that grant recipients attend the annual awards reception and respond to communications from the Selection Committee in a timely way.
Scholarship amounts are between $250 - $2,000 a year. The grant may be renewable if recipient furnishes evidence of satisfactory progress in their program.

Eligibility

This award is available to assist working residents of Essex, Elizabethtown, Lewis, Westport or Willsboro NY looking to further their career ambitions.