Scholarship

Scholarship Application Requirements

Each scholarship application must include the following information:

• A resume outlining your student involvement, leadership expriences, volunteer efforts, research and/or work experience.
• An explanation of your specific, short-term educational goals as well as your long-term career goals and interests.  After graduation, how do you see yourself contributing to the GLBT community where you are living?
• Two essays from the following questions:
  • Please describe the extracurricular, community, school, activism, work activities and/or personal experience(s) of which you are most proud.  How do they reflect your passions?  Please talk about times you took initiative and/or a major leadership role.
  • What is one of the biggest challenges you have faced?  How did you handle it?
  • How have you advocated for the rights of and acceptance of the GLBT community?
  • These scholarships promote education to strengthen leadership in and for the GLBT communities.  Explain how this goal will be promoted if you receive a scholarship.
  • After graduation, how do you see yourself contributing to the GLBT community where you are living?
• The following essays are for specific scholarships and are in addition to the two essays required above:
  • If applying for the scholarship based on financial need, please provide additional information regarding your financial need.
  • If applying for the scholarship for those with HIV/AIDS and for work in the HIV/AIDS fields, please describe your services to, contributions to, or activities in the HIV/AIDS community.

We suggest that you prepare your essays in a word processing document and then copy and paste your content into our online application form.