The program has awarded 123 scholarships to graduating high school students and four Maui Culinary Academy students since 1995.

WAILUKU – Scholarship applications are now being accepted by the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce Foundation for eligible high school seniors and Maui Culinary Academy students at the University of Hawaii Maui College.

Application forms are available at mauifilipinochamber.com/scholarship and must be completed and postmarked no later than March 31, 2016.

The foundation intends to award $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors. The Maui residents must be scheduled to graduate in 2016 with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 grade point average scale through the first semester of the school year.

One $1,000 scholarship shall also be awarded each to selected Maui Culinary Academy students at UHMC.

Scholarship monies are raised from the foundation’s Scholarship Golf Tournament scheduled for April 23, as well as from the foundation’s partners.

Those who wish to donate or support the foundation’s scholarship program may e-mail foundation@mauifilipinochamber.com.

The Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that is the charitable and educational arm of the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce. To learn more, visit mauifilipinochamber.com.