Little Rock — Earlier this month, Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund (ASPSF) announced that $61,000 was raised during its second annual Day of Giving, showing strong statewide support for single parents working toward a college or trade-school degree.
This fundraising effort came as ASPSF awarded $659,600 in Spring 2026 scholarships to 453 single parents, helping student parents across 69 counties stay enrolled in college or trade school while supporting their families.
Locally, ASPSF awarded the following totals in financial aid:
- Cleburne County: $2,800 to two students
- Conway County: $11,200 to eight students
- Faulkner County: $30,000 to 21 students
- Hot Spring County: $10,000 to seven students
- Jefferson County: $13,200 to seven students
- Lonoke County: $3,200 to two students
- Perry County: $1,600 to one student
- Pulaski County: $124,400 to 85 students
- Saline County: $16,800 to 12 students
“This scholarship is allowing me to work towards my dream of being a paramedic, while providing for my daughter and building a better life for us both,” said Spring 2026 recipient Barrett Brungardt of Faulkner who is enrolled at University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College.
Spring 2026 recipient Chancellor Johnson of Pulaski County shared that the scholarship helps “tremendously,” by allowing her to pay household expenses so she can focus soles on her daughter and school. Johnson is a nursing major at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and her long-term goal is to earn her master’s degree so she can be a leader in the local health care sector…