PHCC Educational Foundation 2026 Scholarship

Part of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors (PHCC) Educational Foundation's mission is help ease the path into the trades for qualified workers who need help getting started. Each year we combine our resources with sponsorships from our industry partners to deliver impactful financial assistance to students pursuing a career in the p-h-c industry.

Are you enrolled/enrolling in a p-h-c apprentice program, a PHCC Academy® program (Fast Track or apprenticeship) or a trade school? Pursuing an undergraduate college degree in a major directly related to the plumbing-heating-cooling trades? Completing this single form will apply you for all of the awards you are eligible to receive from the PHCC Educational Foundation.

Please watch this video for a quick overview of the eligibility requirements and how to apply.

If you have prewritten your answers to the background & experience questions and have your grades & letters of recommendation ready, completing the rest of this application process should take less than 20 minutes.

Our awards range from $1,500 to $10,000. There are typically 60+ awards available each year. All applications and submission materials are due by May 1st. A committee of contractors reviews applications over the summer and winners are selected in late July. Award disbursements are made in August directly to the school or apprentice program or to the apprentice’s employer if they have already paid tuition costs for the upcoming program year.

Even if your employer pays for your apprenticeship training, a scholarship win will help to offset your training costs, which benefits your company and you.

Employers - A max of four winners per company per year are allowed, so please tap only your top set of four apprentices to apply.

Some materials are required for all applicants and others are optional depending on what type of program you are enrolled in.

Required for All Applicants

- A completed application, including answers to all the Background & Experience questions.

Required for Apprentices and online PHCC Academy Students:

A PHCC Member Letter of Recommendation from your employer who is a PHCC–National Association Member or a PHCC Association Executives Council member on their company letterhead.

Optional for Apprentices & Trade School Students

- An Academic Letter of Recommendation from your program instructor on school letterhead.

- A copy of your most recent apprentice program grades, including your cumulative GPA if possible.

College students must submit at least two of the three submission materials listed above – grades, PHCC member letter of recommendation, academic letter of recommendation.

Tip - You will get the most points if you can submit all the requested materials.

 Incomplete submissions are subject to disqualification.

A few of our awards have additional requirements -

- For the Gil Meyerowitz Memorial Scholarship, you must be United States Armed Forces veteran; a current or former National Reservist or member of the National Guard.

- For the Gerry Kennedy Scholarship Award, you will be asked to upload a copy of your Scout rank certificate or other rank evidence.

- For the PHCC of Mass. Auxiliary Scholarship, you must be a college student and a resident of Massachusetts.

Applicants’ submission materials are reviewed and scored by a committee of PHCC member contractors. Scholarships are allocated to the highest score ranking applicants until all of the available scholarships have been awarded.

Other Program Rules

- All submission materials must be typed; no handwritten materials will be accepted in uploaded materials.

- This application must be completed by the applicant (not by an office staff person or parent on their behalf).

- Applicants can use A.I. to improve their application essay answers, but not to generate them entirely. Essay answers that are obviously entirely A.I. generated are subject to disqualification.

- Scholarship applicants, friends or relatives may not contact members of the Scholarship Committee.

- For assistance, please consult the Foundation website (phccfoundation.org/scholarships) or e-mail us at [email protected]. For assistance with any technical issues with the application form or Kaleidoscope platform, please tap the Help button in the lower right corner.

Your complete application & all supporting materials must be received by May 1st. Scholarships will be awarded for only for qualified educational expenses incurred on or after January 1st of the current year; tuition bills due before this date do not qualify. One exception - tuition expenses for the PHCC Fast Track service technician training program from a registration that occurred in the previous calendar year are acceptable.

Scholarship payments are made directly to schools or apprentice employers to be applied against qualified expenses. Applicants are responsible for avoiding conflicts with other grants and scholarships. 

All apprentices and any technicians who are enrolled in a PHCC Foundation Fast Track to Service Technician course must also be working for a Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors--National Association (PHCC) member company to be eligible for these scholarships.

Thank you!