Payless launches minority scholarship program

TOPEKA, Kan. Payless has launched the Payless Inspiring Possibilities Scholarship program in honor of Black History month and will join together with its shoppers to raise money to support the future of African American and other minority youth.

Through the new program, Payless is selling a limited-edition I Believe necklace for only $4 in more than 800 stores nationwide and Payless.com, while supplies last, and will donate 100% of the net profits of necklace sales, with a minimum donation of $35,000, to a newly developed scholarship program established with the National Urban League (NUL). This is the first-ever retail partnership for the NUL. Payless said it expects the NUL to distribute a minimum of a dozen $2,500 scholarships to African American and other minority youth through its signature program, Project Ready.