San Jose micro-scholarships build bank accounts and mindsets for college

Typically, many scholarships and accolades come at the end of the senior year to recognize outstanding performance of top students.

Imagine instead a series of “micro-scholarships” for a different purpose targeted toward students at low-income high schools. Spread out like bread crumbs over four years, they would build students’ confidence, their resumés and plans for the future, and would end at graduation with as much as $5,000 in the bank for those who have earned them.