SERVICE SCHOLARSIPS FOR STUDENTS

If you are involved in the followings activities you may be eligeble for a service scholarship

• Tutoring/ Mentoring K-12

• Community-based service addressing human needs

• Community work study position in a local service agency

• Participating in service or Service-Learning activities

.....................Note: Financial need is NOT a consideration for this scholarship

How It Works

• Students engage in service activities and report time and progress to a sponsor

• The hours accumalted over the course of 12 months, September 1 to August 31

• At the end of the service, students exit the program and recieve a scholarship

• These are the three scholarships amounts, correlating to three different service terms:

.....................300 hours (10 hours/ week during the academic year) = $1,000

.....................450 hours (15 hours/ week during the academic year) = $1,250

.....................900 hours (30 hours/ week during the academic year) = $2,363 ............................. .Note : The 900 hours can be extended over two academic years ...............................

............. (Hours per week are calculated over the school calander year, or 30 weeks)

 

The Answer is YES

• Community Work Study: As a community-based work study, your hours working in tutoring, mentoring, or addressing human needs DO count toward the grant.

• Volunteering: If you involved in a volunteer program that adresses tutoring, mentoring, or addressing human needs your hours DO count toward the grant.

Nursing Clinicals, Sociology Fieldwork or Student Teaching: If you are involved in an unpaid student teaching position, pacticum, or fieldwork for education, sociology, nursing etc. in which you are tutoring mentoring, or addressing unmet human needs in a community, your hours DO count towards this grant.