August 21, 2008 by Mara Strom I’m changing things up this Scholarship Thursday. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been mentioning the August slow-down in scholarships with immediate deadlines. That’s because everyone is getting ready to go back to school — including scholarship committees. Now the truth is that if you are looking for local niche scholarships, you may still be in luck. But since I try to bring you national (or at least regional) opportunities, there are definitely fewer choices this time of year. So, instead of my regular format, today I’m bringing you three major scholarship sources you NEED to know about. All of these are big foundations associated with big businesses — and all of them have extremely generous college scholarshi...