A family-owned scholarship
On a mission to help students towards a lifetime of financial stability.
Our scholarship was founded in 2018 with a goal of providing aid to students who thought through their career and education. To achieve this, we partner with high schools in the Los Angeles area to give in-person educational sessions on lower cost options besides four-year universities. We pride ourselves in our deliberately simple application process and thoughtfully read each application by hand.
Currently, many high-growing careers are being ignored by high schools and hundreds of thousands of jobs are going unfulfilled. Unsure of their future career, many students rush into four-year universities without thinking through alternative options for education that are much cheaper. KPS Scholarships focuses on these careers and help prepare each student for their financial path forward.
KPS Scholarships honors Surinder Singh. Despite his responsibilities as a son, brother, husband, father, and grandfather, he continued to devote his entire life to seva (selfless service). Guided by his parents, Karam Singh and Prem Kaur, his love for service was born.
Surinder was a passionate believer in the concept that education is a fundamental human right no matter where and how you grow up. He dedicated years of his life building Rotary Public Schools around the world, impacting thousands of students.
The seeds of his educational passion were sewn when his son Harvinder Singh received a $500 scholarship by the El Salvador Community. As an immigrant with two kids, affording higher education was a struggle. This kind gesture, from a community that was not his own, resonated with him deeply. Forever grateful, he always felt the need for his Sikh community to impact others the same way his family had been.
Surinder was the founder of Ganesh Machinery, a company he started in March of 1985. He saw firsthand the shortage of a skilled workforce and how his customers were struggling to find employees.
Surinder’s dream was to start an educational scholarship to help students find a career in these growing fields. He wanted the scholarship named after his parents, and thus the Karam Prem Surinder (KPS) Scholarship was created.
Right to left: Harvinder Singh, Rasjot Singh, Somya Bedi, Benti Kaur, Devjit Bedi, Pami Kaur
