The application for the 2011 Esperanza Scholarship is now available. Applications are due March 31.

This spring, the Esperanza Education Fund will award at least $100,000 in scholarships—$5,000 two-year scholarships and $10,000 four-year scholarships—to immigrant students in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, to attend public colleges and universities, regardless of ethnicity, national origin, or immigration status. Funded by a grant from the D.C. Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs (OLA), at least $40,000 will be awarded to D.C. residents.

To apply as a high school senior, please go to: http://apps.esperanzafund.org
To apply as a GED holder, please go to: http://apps.esperanzafund.org/2011/GED/Application.pdf.

Esperanza’s die-hard 5K and 10K team, Team Esperanza, a.k.a. The Phalanx, will be running its last race of the season on Sunday, March 6, at 8:30 am in the Adams Morgan “Vamos!” 5K. If you’d like to join the team as an individual runner or as a member of The Phalanx, who finish the race spelling out E-S-P-E-R-A-N-Z-A across the finish line (see below), please email Alvaro ASAP! A few photos from our last race, the Rockville 10K, are below.