Scholarships

I Lost The Ability To Communicate; Now I’m About To Graduate From College

This guest post is by Joshua Mack a young man on the autism spectrum. Joshua is applying for our Fall 2017 Making a Difference Autism Scholarship via the nonprofit KFM Making a Difference. You can read more about the organization and how to apply for our scholarship here. You can help our scholarship program continue to help these students […]

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How I Can Relate to LeBron James as Someone on the Autism Spectrum

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There are countless reasons why we look up to athletes. The reason I’ve always looked up to athletes is because they go out there and pursue their dreams. Then there are other athletes who go above and beyond to give back to their communities. A great example of that is 3-time NBA Champion LeBron James

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Kerry Magro Featured on Chasing News for World Autism Awareness Day

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Thanks to Tamara Laine from Chasing News, a television program that airs on WWOR-My9, WNYW-Fox5 and WTXF-Fox29, I was able to share a little bit about my story of growing up with autism. Of the highlights from the interview included a discussion of the importance of the transition to adulthood in our autism community. In the

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Spring 2016 Autism Scholarship Application Opens

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This is the press release for our autism scholarship program for 2016. If you would like us to email you a copy of this to share with others please feel free to email us at KFMMakingADifference@gmail.com! “KFM Making a Difference”, an organization focused on housing and disability advocacy, after the recent success of their scholarship

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2015 in Review: 7 Students with Autism Receive Scholarship Aid for College

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Thanks to the generous donations of members in our community we were able to reward 7 scholarships to students with autism for college in 2015. This was part of our Spring 2015 Making a Difference for Autism Scholarship Program which is ran through KFM Making a Difference, a non-profit that focuses on helping the special needs

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Graduation Rates Increase for High School Students with Disabilities

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The U.S. Department of Education has released new numbers that show that the graduation rate for those with disabilities has risen for the third year in a row. As reported from Disability Scoop the new number indicates that 63.1 percent of high school students with disabilities in the United States in the 2013-2014 school year

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The Start of a Scholarship Program to Benefit Inspiring People with Autism

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On August 21st 2015, a new book I contributed to called College for Students with Disabilities: We Do Belong was released. The book focuses on helping give educators a look at disabilities through the perspective of those with disabilities. To share the news I appeared on Autism Live to discuss the new book with host

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Inspiring Adult with Autism Hopes to be the Temple Grandin of Her Generation

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This guest Q&A post is with my dear friend Dani Bowman, a young adult with autism who founded her company, Powerlight-Studios at age 11. Now 20, she has worked professionally in the animation industry since 14, premiering 5 award wining animated short films at San-Diego Comic-Con each year for the past 4 years, that include

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20 Adults with Autism Who Were Accepted Into College

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In 2011, we founded the organization KFM Making a Difference with the hopes of helping individuals with special needs across the lifespan. With that one of our missions was to help give scholarships out to individuals with autism to pursue college. Since KFM was founded we’ve been able to give out 20 scholarships for adults

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Autism Scholarship Available

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“KFM Making a Difference”, an organization focused on housing and disability advocacy was started by international motivational speaker Kerry Magro. You can check out our most recent scholarship application form here You can learn more about how Kerry is helping the disabled community here Learn how you can hire Kerry to speak at your next

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