Discover opportunities to help finance your education. Prospective students can search through different types of financial aid to find the scholarships and grants that best suit their individual needs. These resources include both public and private funding and represent a variety of interests. Graduate Fellowship Fund This fund gives financial assistance to deaf graduates of Gallaudet University and other accredited colleges and universities who are in pursuit of graduate study at colleges and universities for people who hear normally. The Minnie Pearl and Linda Cowden Memorial Scholarships The Minnie Pearl Scholarship is a four-year, undergraduate scholarship open to deaf and hard of hearing students who have been accepted to an accredited four-year college or university in the United States. The Minnie Pearl Scholarship will pay up to $1,000 per year, for four years, for a maximum of $4,000 per person. Scholarship recipients will receive $1,000 per year for four years, payable directly to the school, if a 3.0 cumulative grade point average is maintained. Bridges anticipates offering one scholarship per year. The Linda Cowden Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Linda who died in July 2004 following a courageous battle with cancer. Sertoma Scholarship for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing Sertoma's Scholarship for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing, is the leading funder of the scholarships for deaf and hard of hearing students since the program's inception in 1994. Students with clinically significant bilateral hearing loss, graduating from high school, or undergraduate students pursuing four-year college degrees in