Distributors Education Foundation Ray Foley Memorial Scholarship Program
The 2025 application process is now closed.
Scholarship winners will be announced in June 2025.
| In June 1983, the CDA Distributors Education Foundation (DEF) Ray Foley Memorial Scholarship was created in memory of the late National Candy Wholesalers Association executive vice president, Ray Foley. The DEF awards four $5,000 scholarships annually to applicants from distributor member companies in honor of Mr. Foley. Ray Foley Memorial Scholarship applicants must be employed on an ongoing basis by a CDA distributor member company in good standing or an immediate family member (spouse or child) of an employee of a CDA distributor member company. The employee of the CDA distributor member company must be employed at a distribution location (i.e. not retail or other non-distribution locations). CDA uses an anonymous judging process to select scholarship recipients. All applicants must be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate program in an accredited college or university. The scholarship winners are chosen based on academic achievements, volunteer activities, recommendations and a personal essay. |  |
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