Your Help Makes the Dream Award Potential
By Matt Konrad
The Scholarship America Dream Award is open for purposes beginning as we speak, by way of March 28—and, as we have a good time the tenth yr of this groundbreaking scholarship program, we’re excited to announce a serious growth of the Dream Award imaginative and prescient.
Began in 2013 with a founding donation from creator and newscaster Katie Couric, the Dream Award has helped greater than 120 students pursue their faculty desires regardless of monetary obstacles. Till now, award eligibility has been restricted to college students already in faculty—however, for the primary time ever, we’re opening purposes to highschool seniors who’re going through monetary want!
The Dream Award focuses on three main improvements:
- Rising Entry to Improve Affect: Eligibility pointers are clear, concise and wide-ranging, making certain all kinds of scholars can apply.
- Monetary Help that Follows the Scholar: The Dream Award just isn’t a one-time award—recipients can earn as much as $10,000 every year for as much as 4 years.
- Help Past the Scholarship: Scholarship America gives Dream Award Students with each digital and in-person alternatives to attach with one another and with supporters and enterprise leaders.
By increasing the attain of the Dream Award to incoming freshmen, we are able to present hope for much more college students whose huge desires run up in opposition to troublesome monetary realities. Your donation helps college students like Patrick, who didn’t let a traumatic upbringing forestall him from turn out to be the primary in his household to attend faculty. Right now, he’s on his strategy to a grasp’s diploma and a profession as an educator.
Right here’s what he needed to say in regards to the impression of this scholarship on his life.
As we increase the Dream Award, we want your help to proceed eliminating boundaries for college kids like Patrick.
Your individual or corporate help of Scholarship America’s Dream Award means the world to a pupil who has drive, expertise and a ardour to vary the world—however who lacks the monetary assets to maintain working towards their diploma. Thanks for serving to convey this impactful program into its second decade of success!
