YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund has received a combined $75,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation.

The grant is to fund projects related to the creation and implementation of the Hearst Winter and Summer Institute for fashion students who have won the YMA FSF scholarship and who are participating in their educational, internship and career pathway programs.

YMA and the Geoffrey Beene Foundation formed a strategic alliance with the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund in 2007 to further the mutual goal of expanding support for students seeking careers in the Fashion Industry. The Geoffrey Beene Foundation has donated to the YMA FSF more than $5 million committed through 2017.