CONTACT: Lisa Ridge, njhn.org@gmail.com, 732-425-5233
2025 Scholarship Opportunity for Secular Students (April 27, 2025) – New Jersey Humanist Network (NJHN) is pleased to announce our third $1,000 scholarship to be awarded in cooperation with the Secular Student Alliance to a student who embodies the humanist values of reason, social justice, inclusion, and community. The scholarship will be awarded to a student who is enrolled or enrolling in an accredited college, university or trade school in New Jersey in the fall of 2025.
Each year, the Secular Student Alliance offers scholarship opportunities to students who exemplify its mission by proudly expressing their secular identities, building welcoming and inclusive communities, and promoting strong secular values. The scholarships support students who, in addition to pursuing excellence in their academic studies, are activists for secular values on their campus and/or in their community. NJHN is sponsoring the scholarship, which will be awarded by the Secular Student Alliance. The alliance is the only national organization dedicated to atheist, humanist, and other nontheist students. “NJHN welcomes the opportunity to support a student leader who is working to promote social justice, fight for marginalized communities, and build a better world through their activism,” said NJHN President Lisa Ridge. Students can learn more about the Secular Student Alliance and its scholarship process and apply at secularstudents.org/scholarships. The application deadline is July 31, 2025.
### Founded in 1994, NJHN is a secular humanist community that embraces a nontheistic philosophy emphasizing human reason, ethics, and social justice. We are committed to the application of reason and science to the understanding of the universe and to the solving of problems through our compassion, common experience and civic engagement. Learn more about NJHN at njhn.org.
UPDATE 4/13/25: The fundraiser for our third Secular Student Scholarship has been a complete success! With contributions from more than a dozen donors, we easily raised the $1,000 for our 2025 scholarship. Thank you to all who helped make our Scholarship Campaign a success!
We will soon update this page with information about the Secular Student Alliance’s 2025 Scholarship announcement and application process.
We will start our 2026 campaign early next year!
We’re excited to announce our 2025 Secular Student Scholarship fundraising campaign!
For our third year in cooperation with the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), NJHN will sponsor a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to a student who will be attending an accredited college, university, or trade school in New Jersey in the fall of 2025.
Every year, the SSA offers scholarship opportunities to students who will exemplify the SSA mission by proudly expressing their secular identities, building welcoming and inclusive communities, and promoting strong secular values.
The SSA will handle the application process, set deadlines, and confirm students’ enrollment status. Once the application process closes, SSA will forward qualifying applications to the NJHN Scholarship Committee, without self-identifiers, and we will choose the scholarship recipient. The scholarship funds will be distributed in the fall and we hope to acknowledge our recipient at that time, with their permission.
Please visit the SSA Scholarship page for more information on the application process, which will open in April 2025. The submission deadline is July 31, 2025.
Our goal is to raise $1,000 from our members and supporters to fund our 2025 scholarship. With established funding, we will make this an annual offering.
We are accepting donations until April 1. You can contribute via PayPal or debit/credit card by clicking the Donate button below. [UPDATE: Our 2025 campaign is now closed.]
To donate by check, make it payable to: New Jersey Humanist Network and mail to: P.O. Box 5521, Somerset, NJ 08875-5521.
Email us with any questions. Thank you for supporting our New Jersey secular students!
Published 2/10/25