Scholarship Applications OPEN for Spring 202

🎓 Scholarship Applications OPEN for Spring 2026 🎓

The Peirano Family Foundation is proud to announce that applications are officially open for our five scholarships with more than $20,000 expected to be awarded this year. That’s real dollars creating real opportunity.

📅 Application Window

 Opens, January 20, 2026

 Closes, February 20, 2026, at midnight ET

Scholarship available 👇

• Affronti Community Service Scholarship – $1,000

Available only to seniors at King High School and Strawberry Crest High School

• Dr. Kristine Bennett, Ed.D. Honorary Scholarship – Minimum $500

Awarded to multiple Hillsborough County graduating seniors

• Hook-a-Hero: Family First, Future Strong Scholarship – $1,000

For children of current or retired first responders (fire rescue or law enforcement)

• Trade & Technical Scholarship – Minimum $500

For students entering a trade or technical program in the Tampa Bay area

• Sherri VanDeBoe Future in Education Scholarship – Minimum $500

For students accepted into University of South Florida College of Education undergraduate K–12 programs

If you know a student who’s driven, deserving, and ready for what’s next or if that student is you, this is your moment.