The Leadership 1000 Scholarship Program: The leaders of today supporting the leaders of tomorrow. An investment in the future.

The goal of the Leadership 1000 Scholarship Program is to provide four-year college scholarships to economically disadvantaged students on an ongoing basis. This is a custom designed program for individuals, families, businesses and civic organizations who want to get involved and support low-income students by providing scholarship funds. Benefactors sponsor specific students and commit to funding a four-year degree.

BENEFACTORS

This program offers families, corporations and small businesses the opportunity to support a specific student with an average investment of $5,000 per year for four years. Benefactors can put the scholarship in their family name or company name to recognize their contribution and if they wish, get to know their student.

The program is flexible so that benefactors may establish specific parameters such as a particular high school or ethnic group. For example, one benefactor expressed an interest in providing four-year scholarships to young African American men graduating from Garfield High School, planning to enroll at the University of Washington. In this instance, we collaborated with both Garfield High School and the University of Washington to identify candidates who met these criteria and to ensure that they were college ready. The lives of these young men have been changed forever, and they can look forward to careers and a standard of living that they once thought impossible.

How can you help?
You can help by investing $5,000 per year for four years to sponsor a student through college. You can shape your tax deductible contribution any way you want, directing us to identify a student from a particular high school, college or major area of study. The choice is yours.

How does your money work?
As demonstrated in this chart, showing a typical scholarship arrangement for a state university, students access money from all other sources first. Then you provide Last-In funding that fills in the gaps and makes it possible for students in need to attend college.

If you are interested in sponsoring a student through college or would like more information about this program please contact the Foundation by clicking on the 'Contact Us' icon or call 1.877.655.4097.

STUDENTS

The Leadership 1000 Program is funded by individual donors who have chosen to give back to their community by providing college scholarships. The scholarships generally are $5,000 per year for four years. In addition to the minimum guidelines stated below, the student must also meet donor specified criteria. While donors cannot select the student they want to fund, they can specify criteria such as gender, ethnicity, major, university etc.

While we encourage all to apply, chosen students will be those who meet both the minimum criteria and the additional specifications. There will be up to 100 scholarships awarded this year.

Minimum Application Guidelines

• Washington resident, (for at least one year), planning to attend, or are attending a Washington state public or independent college.
• Enrolled high school senior who has applied or been accepted into a four year college/university OR an enrolled college freshman or sophomore at the time of application.
• Planning to or already pursuing a four year undergraduate degree.
• Must have filed a FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid, if eligible to apply. If not eligible to submit a FAFSA, alternative financial information must be submitted to the College Success Foundation.
• Income cannot be higher than:

  Family of 1	$39,000
  Family of 2	$58,000
  Family of 3	$62,000
  Family of 4	$70,000
  Family of 5	$78,000
  Family of 6	$86,000
  Family of 7	$94,000

• Must have demonstrated high potential.
• Minimum 2.75 high school GPA at the time of application, if applying as a high school senior.
• Minimum 2.75 college GPA at the time of application, if applying as a college student.
• International students and students on foreign exchange or visas are not eligible.
• Must be planning to enroll or actually enrolled full-time as a college student, 12 credits per quarter or equivalent for semester.
  

Application Process

Applications for the Leadership 1000 Scholarship program are now available.

• To complete the application on-line, click here https://apply.collegesuccessfoundation.org/wa

The deadline is May 1, 2009