A Program Where Everyone Benefits
Student Participants
- Annual financial aid of at least $5,000
- Opportunity to pursue community service projects
- Participation in a structured program of leadership, organization, and social discussion
- Opportunity to tie community service to intended course of academic study
Colleges and Universities
- Provides an attractive program for eligible students
- Complements existing programs and utilizes social engagement organizational structures
- Adds to the school's community outreach function
- Requires minimal university funding
Individual Donors
- Affordable for financially successful people
- Provides satisfaction of helping motivated need-based students
- Provides a legacy knowing that students will be helping other less fortunate people in the donor's name throughout the donor's life and beyond
- Distributes an annual report to donors on the program and the activities of their students
Corporate Donors
- In addition to individual donors, corporate donors are likely participants
- For example, pharmaceutical companies may sponsor pre-med students, energy companies could sponsor engineering majors, educational foundations could assist future teachers
- Every company and organization is a candidate for endowing scholarships
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