Education Awards

After we have sorted and sold thousands of books, wrapped gift baskets, hung paintings on panels and completed other fundraising tasks, we need to decide how best to distribute the funds. This is the pleasant dilemma for the Education Awards Committee.

Over time our focus has shifted. At first, the goal was helping high school graduates go on to university. This changed to supporting university students and mature women returning to further their studies.

We now include financial support for women studying in non-traditional vocations – carpentry, auto mechanics, building airplanes…. Hence we are extraordinarily pleased to note that for 2025/26, a very generous donor – Locweld – has donated an apprenticeship at their factory in addition to a monetary award.

Over the last several years, a greater number of First Nations female students are recipients of our Education Awards. This includes the Winnie Bird Award that is given exclusively to a First Nations woman.

Any member of the CFUW Montreal South Shore Club is eligible to participate on this Committee. Learn more about our Awards below.

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2025/26 Education Awards

Recipients of the 2025/26 Education Awards will be identified in the next few months. They will receive their awards at our

September 2025 CFUW Montreal South Shore general meeting.

Awards totaling $13,500 will be presented to fourteen amazing women. Please join us at our September meeting to celebrate their achievements.

2025/26 Education Awards

Concordia University, Mature Woman returning to studies
Concordia University, female student with learning disabilities
Champlain College, graduating student
Champlain College, first year student enrolled in Nursing
Champlain College, first year student enrolled in Nursing
Riverside School Board, ACCESS, female student in non-traditional program
Riverside School Board, ACCESS, female student in non-traditional program
Riverside School Board
New Frontiers School Board, female student enrolled in non-traditional program
New Frontiers School Board, female student enrolled in non-traditional program
Edouard Montpetit, female student enrolled in Aviation Technology Program (English)
CFUW Charitable Trust, École Polytechnique Scholarship
Winnie Bird Scholarship, female student, Kahnawà:ke's Economic Development Council
Locweld Bursary and Internship, female student, first semester, New Frontiers School Board

2024/25 Education Awards

The 2024/25 Education Awards were presented at the September 2024 CFUW Montreal South Shore general meeting.

Awards totaling $7,500 were presented to ten amazing women.

2024/25 Education Awards

Concordia University, Mature woman
Concordia University, student with Learning Disabilities
Graduate, Champlain Regional College
Madeleine Shaw Award, Nursing student
Graduate, Champlain Regional College
Woman in Non-traditional Program, Riverside School Board
Woman in Non-traditional Program, Riverside School Board
Woman in Non-traditional Program, New Frontiers School Board
Woman in Non-traditional Program, New Frontiers School Board
Winnie Bird Award
CFUW Charitable Trust