Scholarships

While our Teacher Quest Scholarship program has been suspended indefinitely, we encourage other nonprofits to replicate this initiative.

This was a program focused on Educational Equality and Excellence in our nation's classrooms.

We continue to believe in:

fostering academic achievement among our nation's young minority scholars and
advancing educational equity and multicultural understanding.

The first Brown Foundation scholarship was awarded in 1989 in an effort to cultivate minority educators. This was predicated upon a report by the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy which stated, "Schools form children's opinions about the larger society and their own futures. The race, sex, and background of their teachers tell something about authority and power in contemporary America."

The Foundation's goal was to provide financial assistance to minority education majors is to create a future in which all students see a view of the world that includes them and to provide role models that are so important to identity formation. Previous scholarship programs included: Brown Academic Scholarships, Lucinda Todd Book Awards, and Goodyear Scholarships. Over its existence, the Brown Foundation Teacher Quest scholarship program awarded more than 100 scholarships.

Although the percentage of students of color has increased, the number of minority teachers does not reflect changing population demographics. We believe our former Teacher Quest Scholarship Program made a difference.