Apply Now for 2013 Scholarships

By Saloma Furlong | June 11, 2013 |

Thanks to our generous donors we have $10,000 of scholarships to give away this year and we are now accepting applications. If you grew up Amish and are pursuing a college education, please apply before August 10th to be considered. Now, we’re all ex-Amish ourselves and we know it’s not part of the Amish culture to…

Read More

We’re Still Here

By Saloma Furlong | July 10, 2011 |

Well, we’re still plugging away at getting this thing launched. It’s funny how paperwork always takes so much longer than expected. I was hoping to start fundraising beginning of May and now it’s mid-July. I guess dreams don’t come true overnight and I have the rest of my life to keep chipping away at this.…

Read More

The Beginning

By Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund | December 7, 2010 |

As of today, there are three of us working on this project. Let me introduce ourselves. My name is Emma Miller, I live in London and am about to start my Msc. program in Economics. Naomi Kramer lives in Goshen, Indiana and is a star nursing student at Goshen College. Then we have William Troyer…

Read More