The non-profit Hunter Brooks Watson Memorial Fund which is seeking young persons between the ages of 16 and 25 to complete grant applications for grants up to $5,000 for its June 15th cycle of awards. These grants are not scholarships for academic studies, but rather direct financial support to assist innovative young people in bringing their ideas and projects to fruition.
Grant applicants do not have to be enrolled in school, but simply have to explain through the grant application why funding is needed to move their project forward. There is no cost nor obligation to apply.
Further information, and the grant application itself, is available online at hunterwatson.org/grants. The application deadline for the current grant cycle is June 15, 2018.
The Memorial Fund was created in honor of Hunter Brooks Watson, a young man tragically killed as a passenger in a car crash in the spring of 2016, just before he was to enter his junior year at Syracuse University. Hunter had already reached high levels of success in a variety of areas, including music, performing, starting a business, and as a computer technology major at Syracuse.
We are seeking young persons between the ages of 16 and 25 who have demonstrated an enthusiasm and passion for an innovative idea or project he or she working or developing new ideas in areas such as music, the performing arts, technology or entrepreneurship.
In its recent grant cycles the fund has helped finance new Internet projects, recording studio updates, expansion of online businesses, and several music and performance projects.
