Scholarships

Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce Foundation

A 501 C3 Non Profit Organization.

All Proceeds Goes Towards Our Scholarship Fund

Interested in applying for a scholarship? Click the link below to download the file and send it to admin@suburbanessexchamber.com, with all other required documents mentioned below, or submit them in person in our office.

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The Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce Foundation is offering three Scholarship Awards. The recipients must be a high school senior and reside in the towns that we support; Bloomfield, Belleville, Glen Ridge. The applications will be reviewed, and recipients will be selected by the scholarship committee. The criteria for the scholarships are based on their financial need, fall attendance at a college, university/vocational school, intention to pursue a career that is business oriented and extracurricular/community activities. The scholarship application includes the recipient’s application, 500-word essay, GPA scores, letters of recommendation and the acceptance letters from the college (s) of interest.

Class of 2023 Scholarship Recipients

Belleville High School: Jodi Valez & Ivan Perez

Bloomfield High School: Kira Day Pipkins & Ava Vitali

Glen Ridge High School: Ava Leone & Gabriel Springer

Made Possible by Our Fellow Chamber Members:

Platinum: Cecelia Polizzi, Provident Bank; Bronze: Compass Self Storage, Clara Maass Medical Center; Patron: Joseph Berardinelli, CPA, Mario Drozdz

Patron: Joseph Berardinelli, CPA, Mario Drozdz (Patrician Realtor)

Class of 2022 Scholarship Recipients

Belleville High School: Mr. Cengiz Tetik (Rutgers University in Newark)

Bloomfield High School: Miss Taylor Sconiers (Hampton University in Virginia)

Glen Ridge High School: Mr. Ryan O’Neil (Lehigh University in Pennsylvania)

Made Possible by Our Fellow Chamber Members:

Platinum: The Belleville Motor Lodge: Ms. Cecelia Polizzi, Business Owner; Brookdale Shoprite: Mr. Neil Greenstein, Business Owner; Provident Bank: Mr. Michael Kahn, Ms. Dee Frias

Bronze: McLaughlin & Nardi, LLC, Maurice W. McLaughlin, Esq., J. T. Murdoch Shoes, Zippo's Mobile Electronics

Patron: State Farm Insurance, Michael Bush, Agent, Ed Nejman, Joseph Berardinelli, CPA Nardi & Associates

Class of 2021 Scholarship Recipients

Belleville High School: Vivian Shu Yi Li (Northeastern University) and Cybel Cobbinah (Emory University)

Bloomfield High School: Gwen Reoch (Macalester College)

Glen Ridge High School: Sawyer L. Smith (University of Rhode Island)

Made Possible by Our Fellow Chamber Members:

Belleville Motor Lodge and Provident Bank

Class of 2020 Scholarship Recipients

Belleville High School: Joylyn Perez (Kean University) and Malvin Gavarrett (Rutgers University)

Bloomfield High School: Daniel Keseling (The College of New Jersey) and Mikaela Benkert (Montclair State)

Glen Ridge High School: Mia Advensky (McGill University) and Kaylie Koenig (Northeastern University)

Made Possible by Our Fellow Chamber Members

Class of 2019 Scholarship Recipients

Belleville High School: Minjie Wu

Bloomfield High School: Cecelia Polizzi

Glen Ridge High School: Claire Elizabeth McMahon

Made Possible by Our Fellow Chamber Members:

Platinum: Belleville Motor Lodge & Provident Bank

Bronze: Zippo's Mobile Electronics & Nutley Auto; Supporters Michael Bush, State Farm Ins. Agent; Budget Print Center; Joseph Berardinelli, CPA, Nardi & Sharma; J.T. Murdoch Shoes; Great Cents Bookkeeping.