The Berrien Community Foundation has announced $368,000 in scholarships this year. It awarded the scholarships at its annual Scholarship Celebration June 15 at Grand Upton Hall at Lake Michigan College. This year’s theme, Building Blocks of Life, celebrated the next step in many students’ lives, which is going off to college. Two new scholarship programs were added this year: the Steven Marsh and Family Scholarship, and the James and Bernadette McKittrick Agricultural and Environmental Scholarship. The Berrien Community Foundation says it received more than 1,000 scholarship applications this year. It awarded more than 50. The foundation awards scholarships to high school seniors, adults returning to the classroom, and current college students. To date, more than $3.8 million has been awarded in scholarships since the scholarship program began.
