Since September of 2009, the IMPACT Coalition has posted scholarship awards and opportunities valued at over $5 million.

SCHOLARSHIPS

BROWER YOUTH AWARDS

The 2010 application is due on May 15, 2010.  Each of the six Brower Youth Award recipients for 2010 will receive a $3000 cash prize and an all-expense paid trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend the Awards ceremony on October 19, 2010.  The recipients will also participate in a week of speaking engagements, trainings, and environmental conferences leading up to the ceremony. 

You can get updates about the selection process, be among the first to hear of this year's awardees, and find out when next year's applications are available by following us on Twitter or signing up for our listserv.  

Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards to honor founder and legendary activist David R. Brower.  The Brower Youth Awards recognizes six young people in North America annually for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and environmental justice advocacy.  The winners of the award receive a $3,000 cash prize, a trip to California for the award ceremony and wilderness camping trip, and ongoing access to resources and opportunities to further their work at Earth Island Institute.  Young activist leaders ages 13-22 living in North America are eligible to apply.

YOUTH VENTURE AWARDS

Every week throughout the school year, mtvU in partnership with Youth Venture will help fund a new student-run community service organization, or a new project being undertaken by an existing organization. If you've got an original idea about how to make the world--or your campus--a better place, mtvU Grants can help you make it happen.   Are you interested in launching your own organization to address issues like global warming, literacy, health issues, civic participation, community and social problems - any problem you can identify mtvU grants can get you started to help find a solution. Act now, find out more! You could receive:

• Up to $1,000 for your organization.
• An opportunity to be featured on mtvU News.
• Exclusive access to helpful resources and tools in cooperation with Youth Venture, including the opportunity to join a global network of other young changemakers on genV.net.

http://www.genv.net/mtvu

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes honors outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to people and our planet. Nominees, who may range in age from 8 to 18 years old, must have been the prime mover of a service activity, and demonstrated positive spirit and high moral purpose in accomplishing their goals. Nominees must be nominated by responsible adults who have solid knowledge of the young person's heroic activities, and who are not related to the nominee. Winners of the Barron Prize receive:

• $2,500 to be applied to their higher education or to their service project
• a recognition plaque
• a certificate of recognition
• a signed copy of The Hero's Trail, by Barron Prize founder T.A. Barron
• a copy of Dream Big, our new documentary film featuring several Barron Prize winners
• a heroes study guide, curriculum, and bibliography
• the opportunity to be paired with an adult mentor who is passionate about and working in the winner's area of interest
• the opportunity to connect with other Barron Prize winners through the Young Heroes Listserv
• numerous media opportunities – print, television, and radio

By submitting an entry in the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, each entrant acknowledges reading and understanding all the eligibility requirements and selection criteria published on the Prize's website and agrees to observe them. Further, each entrant acknowledges and agrees that as a condition of receiving the Prize, the selected individual will cooperate in publicizing the Barron Prize and will grant rights in the entrant's nomination materials to the Barron Prize

For complete info, visit:  www.nyclu.org/

LEDA: FREE SUMMER INSTITUTE AT PRINCETON

NYUDLs with rising 11th graders who are strong academically should notify their student's guidance counselors about the following opportunity for their students: Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) www.ledascholars.org.    LEDA seeks to support high-achieving low-income high school students by helping them gain access to top colleges, with the goal of diversifying leadership in America.     The program includes a FREE summer institute at Princeton University including leadership development, assistance with SAT/ACT test prep, and writing instruction for the college applications. LEDA staff  advise students through the entire colleage application and financial aid process.  The LEDA recruitment process is underway. The counselor information packet and inital application is attached to this email. The deadline is October 30.   Folks with questions about the program can contact Beth Breger, the Executive Director of LEDA, at bsbnyc_2000@yahoo.com.  

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The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) http://www.hsf.net/Scholarships.aspx?id

is the nation's leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education. During the 2006-2007 academic year, HSF awarded nearly 4,200 scholarships exceeding $26.5 million. The Hispanic Scholarship fund offers more than 12 different categories of scholarships from top corporations (Toyota, Hewlett Packard, General Motors, and Ford) as well as private sources including YAMOS and the Gates Foundations. Awards begin at $2500 in scholarships to students each year. To qualify, applicants must be of Hispanic heritage and have at least a 3.0 grade point average.

Founded in 1975 as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, HSF's vision is to strengthen the country by advancing college education among Hispanic Americans. In support of its mission to double the rate of Hispanics earning college degrees, HSF provides the Latino community more college scholarships and educational outreach support than any other organization in the country. In its 32-year history, HSF has awarded more than 82,000 scholarships worth more than $221 million to Latinos from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands attending nearly 2,000 colleges and universities.

Harvard's Free Tuition for Low-Income Students!!
Harvard is offering free tuition for students that have a family income below $40,000. The prestigious university recently announced that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free...no tuition and no student loans!

To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for families making less than $40, 000 a year visit Harvard's financial aid website at:http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu or call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.

UT-Dallas For the closely observant at the Big Bronx Invitational, they may have noticed a new presence. Chris Burk, Director of Debate at the University of North Texas was there recruiting. As a leading school in the intercollegiate debate community, for the last four years, the University of Texas at Dallas is pleased to announce debate scholarships to exceptional high school debaters. This program is available to students who have at least two years of experience in policy debates.

Each year, several scholarships are offered to qualified debaters that include a travel budget for those interested in excelling in the college debate tournaments. For more information about the debate program and the scholarship opportunities, please contact Chris Burk, Director of Debate and team coach at crb012000@utdallas.edu.  Please visit: http://www.utdallas.edu

Towson Speech and Debate invites applications from UDL debaters for their scholarship program.  We are actively recruiting and have awards to offer ranging from $1000 to full-tuition.  Towson is located just north of Baltimore and works closely with the Baltimore Urban Debate League.  Our students have many opportunities for community organizing; summer teaching experience; and regional, national and international competition.  For more information on the program at Towson visit:

The Target All-Around Scholarship is open to high school seniors and college students who are committed to their communities through volunteer service, education and family involvement. In order to apply, you must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident with a minimum 2.0 GPA. This scholarship is for use at a vocational, technical, 2- or 4-year school. The award is primarily based on your community volunteer hours and volunteer leadership awards and honors. Recipients will be notified by the end of February. Employees of Target, Dayton Hudson Corp., Scholarship America, their subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies (and their spouses), parents, children, siblings (and their spouses), and persons living in the same households of employees are not eligible to apply. If you are a previous recipient, you are not eligible to re-apply. Preference is given to students who reside in a community where a Target store is located.

High school seniors, high school graduates and current undergraduate college students (age 24 and under) who are legal U.S. residents are eligible to apply. Applicants must enroll in a full-time undergraduate course of study no later than the fall term of the following semester at an accredited two or four year college, university or vocational technical school in the U.S. for the entire academic year.   Employees and immediate family members of employees of Target Corporation and past recipients of Target All Around Scholarships are not eligible to apply. This program is not offered in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico or outside the United States

http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001811

COMPLETE YOUR CENSUS FORMS

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Planning and Preparing for College (Scholarships, Internships, Etc)

To prepare students and their parents for college success in areas of academic readiness, community service, internships, summer programs, etc. The blog is to be used as a preparation infrastructure on various areas of college topics. The audience is high school students, parents, under-graduates and graduates students.

CONTESTS/COMPETITONS

NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ESSAY CONTEST

The contest asks young people: What is change you can believe in? Choose an issue - racial justice, freedom of speech, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ rights or something else – then make some noise: Write an essay, poem or short story. Create artwork. Perform spoken word. Make a video. Sing. Rhyme. Be heard!

Thousands of Dollars in Prizes! No topic is off limits. All mediums are accepted.

Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers

Middle Schoolers and high school students are both eligible for these awards. Twelve awards of $10,000 are just the beginning of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The awards recognize creative teenagers and scholarship opportunities for graduating high-school seniors. The program is national in scope and administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization whose mission is provide guidance and support for the next generation of artists and writers, in partnership with 77 regional affiliate organizations.   2011 iNFORMATION AVAILABLE ON OCT 1, 2010

http://www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/enter.htm

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards offer: · Recognition by local and national professionals in the arts; · Exhibition and publication opportunities for regional and national audiences; and · Scholarships for graduating seniors who present portfolios of art, photography and/or writing. In addition to regional scholarship opportunities, graduating seniors who earn national level awards have the opportunity to leverage funds from a pool of $1.5 million in tuition scholarships from arts colleges, universities and institutes participating in the Alliance Provider Network. Contests extends across genres appealing to the writing talents of those who are interested in poetry, misteries, reviews, etc. Take advantage of this exciting opportunity to gain national recognition and publication opportunities.  This competition offers young scholars the opportunity to earn national recognition, publication opportunities, and scholarship awards. Students who reside in the U.S. and Canada and attend school grades from 7-12 are eligible to participate in this highly regarded competition.

C-SPAN is hosting a national documentary competition for middle and high school students.

The annual competition, called StudentCam, encourages students to focus on a current political topic of interest in a 10-minute-or-less documentary. Last year’s grand prizewinners were 11th and 10th graders from Jupiter, Fla., who documented immigration and its on effect on their community. The documentaries, which have a deadline of Dec. 31, must contain footage from C-SPAN to qualify for the contest, which has $50,000 in prizes, including a $5,000 grand prize. Students can obtain previously aired footage on the online archives page, or check the C-SPAN schedule online and sign up for C-SPAN alerts for future programs. The competition is sponsored by C-SPAN Classroom, a teacher resource that provides free video on social studies-related topics like the U.S. Constitution, principles of government, and the judicial branch. Learn more aboutStudentCam

High Schoolers Only

Weekly Reader Online© offers several competitions every year to encourage young readers and writers to refine their creative talents and earn prize money and recognition. You’ll find poetry contests, short story competitions and more. Keep checking this site throughout the year for updates. 

http://www.weeklyreader.com/teens/contests.asp

Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Competition awards $1,000 scholarships to juniors and seniors in the U.S. To enter this competition students must write an essay that answers one of four questions about the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You will need the help of a teacher to enter this competition. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/services-academic/essayhome.html

RECURRING OPPORTUNITIES

 Visit Korea for free!

For Project Bridge,, sixteen students will be selected from New York City and Los Angeles to take part in a yearlong series of bi-weekly meetings, a weekend retreat, and a joint 10-day study tour to Korea. Learn more about Project Bridge.

UFT Grant offers scholarships to students from low-income families. $5,000 awards are given and paid to the educational institution in installments over a four year period. Interested students should apply now. The deadline is December each year. The winners of the scholarships will be announced in April.  Applicants must be or have been enrolled in a New York public school and must meet income guidelines. Students must also plan to attend an accredited college or university in a matriculated degree program. http://www.uft.org/member/education/shanker/

Do Something.org
This organization aims to get young people involved in their community. Two programs you may be interested in are the Do Somthing Brick Award for Community Leadership, which awards of grants to individuals interested in helping their community. Another program is the Sears and Levi's Youth Empowerment Grants which awards $500 grants to help people under the age of 18 to fund community service projects. Visit their web site to get more details about applying for these grants.

The United Negro College Fund/JPMorganChase John F. McGillicuddy Scholarship - pays full tuition and provides a new computer. This scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors entering as a college freshman full time at a UNCF college/university..

Other Useful Sites and Information

College partnerships allow students to earn degrees from private universities at lower cost by transferring after graduating from a two-year community college program.
College Boards Online: www.collegeboard.org
College Funds Online: www.collegefunds.net
The Foundation Center: www.fdncenter.org
Find Aid Online: www.findaid.org
Grad School Online: www.gradschool.com
International Research & Exchanges Board: www.irex.org