Destiny Calvillo – 2024 Spring & Fall Recipient
The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation is a 501c3 organization that provides job training, scholarships, mentoring and internship placement assistance for underserved youth and adults interested in careers in travel and tourism and sports management. TSLF programs are offered primarily to students enrolled in public high schools, public community colleges, and four-year universities. TSLF connects the community with great careers, tourism enterprises with talented people, and the tourism industry with a more sustainable and employable future.
Transforming Lives Through Tourism Opportunities
Apply now for the Texas Live! Hospitality and Culinary Scholarship.
$750 scholarships per semester will be available to students enrolled in the Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts classes at Tarrant County College. Scholarships will be awarded in fall 2025. Applications accepted July 14-August 6, 2025.
TSLF Awards $8,000 in Scholarship Funding to TCC Hospitality & Culinary Arts Students
TSLF awarded $8,000 in scholarship funding to 11 TCC Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts students for the fall of 2024 and for spring 2025. The scholarship program is sponsored by Texas Live! and managed by TSLF.
The scholarships were awarded to students pursuing degrees in hospitality management and culinary arts. Students must demonstrate a financial need to be eligible for the scholarships. TSLF is pleased to partner with Texas Live! to continue offering this opportunity to students in our community.
TSLF Awards $5,000 in Grant Funding to Arlington ISD Career & Technical Education Teachers
Five Arlington ISD teachers received $1,000 grants for career and technical education programs. The grants were recently awarded to the teachers during a special presentation at the Dan Dipert CTC. The funds will be used to support Career and Technical Student Organizations and CTE programs this spring. The grant program is part of TSLF’s Teach Tourism Initiative, a program that aims to arm teachers with the tools needed to promote tourism careers to their students. The application period for 2026 grants will open in the fall 2025.
Featured in the photo: Sandy Hitt, Arlington ISD CTE Specialist; Sean Fanning, Culinary teacher, Seguin High School; Anai Arzola and Greg Almendarez, Culinary teachers, Dan Dipert CTC; Courtney Leppke, Kinesiology teacher, Dan Dipert CTC; and Asia Cochran, Culinary teacher, Sam Houston High School
What Students say about TSLF Programs
Travel & Sports Careers 180
TSLF developed a guest speakers’ program to help promote careers in travel, tourism, and sports management to high school and college students. Travel & Sports Careers 180, TSLF’s preeminent guest speakers’ program, brings industry professionals into high school and college classrooms to speak to students about careers in the thriving travel, tourism, and sports industries.
Do you want to learn more about careers in the travel and sports industries? Do you want your students to learn more about the many job and career opportunities available in the travel, tourism, and sports industries? To schedule a speaker, contact Veronica Palacios, veronica@arlington.org. The Travel & Sports Careers 180 program is complimentary.
2023-24 TSLF | TCC Scholarship Recipients
Brenda Long – 2024 Spring & Fall Recipient
Joselyn Torres – 2024 Spring & Fall Recipient
Francis Kobty Hospitality scholarship recipient
The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation connects young students with great careers, tourism enterprises with amazingly talented people, and our entire community with a more sustainable economic future. The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation is a 501c3 organization established in 2017. All donations are tax deductible.
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Education Partners
Support TSLF through the Kroger Community Rewards Program
Kroger shoppers can support TSLF with every purchase at Kroger. To sign up, visit kroger.com. Once logged into your Kroger account, search for Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation either by name or BV311 and then click enroll. New users will need to create an account which requires some basic information, a valid email address and a rewards card.