FYI Scholarship
Meet the 2022 FYI Scholarship Winners!
Our 2024 Post-Secondary Scholarship applications will be opening in spring 2024.
Since 2005, FYI's Scholarship Program has given over $210,000+ to 123 youth. The FYI Scholarship program, now in its 19th year, is in commemoration of Jamal Hemmings and Amon Beckles, Toronto youth who were lost to gun violence in November 2005. Jamal and Amon were participants in FYI’s daily programs and will be remembered for their positive, vibrant personalities and dance skills. The FYI Scholarship Program supports our community’s youth towards a brighter future through funding support for various forms of education including: college, university, training, trades, and certificate programs.
Amount: $2,000 for each approved applicant
Eligibility:
Youth aged 16-29 years-old
Applicant will be attending a Canadian post-secondary school/training in Sep. 2024
Applicant lives, works, volunteer and/or attends school in York South-Weston or Oakwood-Vaugh community
Applicant is actively participating/ attending FYI programming
Scholarship Writing Workshops
Scholarship writing workshops typically run throughout June and July. These workshops are on a bi-weekly basis, and more details will be available shortly.
Meet some of our previous FYI Scholarship recipients
Maya
2016 Scholarship Winner
Maya recently completed her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Toronto and got accepted at the University of British Columbia to do her Masters of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
She was raised by the Children’s Aid Society from the age of eight years old until she aged out of the system at 21 and was asked by the chair of the Children’s Aid Foundation to be a member of the Young People’s Advisory Council (YPAC) where she was asked to sit on a panel with other youth to give input on the allocation of donations for children and youth in foster care.
Maya has made many contributions to the improvement and of socialization processes for young people raised in foster homes, including: acting as a spokesperson at fundraisers and a TEDx style symposium and publishing articles in U of T’s student activist, Inquire Publications.
Maya was a volunteer at For Youth Initiative’s former location by Eglington Station as a Science and Math Tutor.
Nuradin
2016 Scholarship Winner
Nuradin graduated from C.W. Jeffreys C.I. where he served as the student council’s President and started his first year at York University, studying Environment and Health Studies.
Upon completion of his degree he plans on either going to law school to take environmental law or start his own consulting firm, where he would assist companies to reinvent their policies to be more protective of the environment.
Hannah
2021 Scholarship Winner
For Hannah, winning the FYI scholarship means she can finish her final year of graduate studies and apply to a variety of law schools. She hopes to attend law school in fall 2022.