2026 Scholarship information available in March of 2026
2025 Lou Sarno Memorial Scholarship
$4,000.00 ($1,000 x 4 years)
Download Scholarship Guidelines here
Eligibility
The member, child, grandchild or spouse of a local union member or employees of its affiliated Taft-Hartley Trust Fund, whose local union and its affiliated Taft-Hartley Trust Funds
are dues paying members of the Massachusetts Coalition of Taft-Hartley Trust Funds (MCTHTF), and who is enrolled in or accepted as an undergraduate student by an accredited college or university is eligible to apply. The MCTHTF also sponsors the Colleen Sullivan Memorial Nursing Vocation Scholarship. Applicants may only apply for one of the two Coalition-sponsored scholarships.
Criteria
The applicant must provide an official copy of their current school transcript along with a 500-word (or more) essay:
- Employers across the country are deploying Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technologies, impacting, disrupting or even displacing workers.
Please discuss how labor unions and collective bargaining agreements can be used as a tool to improve workers’ job quality and
agency with the inclusion of A.I. technology.
All applications must be received by Friday, March 7, 2025.
Return applications in one of the following way:
Email to scholarship@macoalthtf.org Email is the preferred method.
Mailing address:
Mass Coalition of Taft-Hartley Trust Funds
c/o Melissa Warner
75 Brandy Lane
Taunton, MA 02780
Selection of the Scholarship Recipient
The Executive Board of the MCTHTF shall designate a scholarship selection committee of three or more people to review and select the scholarship recipient. All applicants are reviewed anonymously. The Committee will complete its review and selection on or before March 31, 2025 and make announcement of the selected recipient by April 1, 2025.
Scholarship Award Payment
The $1,000.00 scholarship will be awarded annually to the recipient up until completion of their undergraduate degree but no more than four (4) consecutive years, and no more than $4,000.00. The scholarship recipient must provide the MCTHTF with a copy of the current and next semester tuition bill and official transcript as certification of eligibility. To continue to be eligible for the ongoing scholarship, recipient must be a student in good academic standing and maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5. If it is established that this award will adversely affect the financial aid of the recipient, the Executive Board may, at its discretion, allow the scholarship proceeds to defray non-tuition, education related expenses.