Philanthropist Scholarships
Philanthropist scholarships are actually gifts established by charitable-minded individuals and offered through selected institutions to help people in need. Philanthropists who sponsor educational scholarships include prominent people from different walks of life. The foundations through which they distribute their gifts provide a wealth of higher learning opportunities, with the long-term goal of improving people's lives.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Scholarships
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides opportunities to eliminate hunger and extreme poverty in developing countries around the world, and to help those in the United States with the fewest resources succeed in school and in life. In the United States, the foundation concentrates on improving public education and funding college and graduate school scholarships. For example, the Gates Millennium Scholars Program offers "good-through-graduation" scholarships to 1,000 selected students to attend the college or university of their choice. Students also receive leadership counseling and academic support from the program. Applicants must demonstrate academic excellence, community service and leadership potential. Gates Cambridge Scholarships enable top students from outside the United Kingdom to study at the University of Cambridge. The goal is to assemble a global network of future world leaders with a commitment to improving the lives of others.
Indiana University Philanthropy Awards
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The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University provides scholarships, fellowships and assistantships for students of philanthropy. In 2011, students in the Executive Master of Arts program in Philanthropic Studies received the Kresge Foundation Executive MA Scholarship. These funds cover 50 percent of tuition with the goal of promoting the education of nonprofit professionals and bolstering their ranks. A select number of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) graduate students qualify for The University Fellowship, nominated by the M.A. and Ph.D. Program Admissions Committee. As of 2011, the fellowship had a stipend value of $12,000 for master's students and $22,000 for doctoral students, plus a waiver of most student fees. The M.A. and Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies degree program provides the Hearst Minority Fellowship each year for two minority students to study philanthropy at the university.
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Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholarships
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Seven women students at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, founded the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) on January 21, 1869. This fledgling support group became an organization with chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada. The P.E.O. offers several philanthropy programs, including the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship for female students worldwide to undertake full-time graduate studies in the U.S. and Canada. As of 2010, the maximum value of the scholarship was $10,000 per year based on need. United States and Canadian women students are eligible for other P.E.O. programs. The Program for Continuing Education (PCE) offers need-based grants to women who wish to resume their higher education after an interruption. Scholar Awards (PSA) are merit-based awards for doctoral studies or postdoctoral research at accredited institutions. As of 2010, the Star Scholarship for female high school seniors had a value of $2,500.
Phoebe Prince Memorial Scholarship
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The University of California-Berkeley manages the Phoebe Prince Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund. This scholarship began in memory of the Massachusetts teenager whose suicide in January 2010 resulted from months of incessant bullying at her high school. The scholarship benefits graduate students studying mental and physical health promotion and disease prevention among young people in the School of Public Health (SPH). Initial funding came from California-based, Irish-American philanthropist author and researcher, J. Michael Mahoney. The university's Graduate Fellowships Matching Program provides matching funds.
Ford Foundation Fellowships
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The Ford Foundation has a global reach, working towards social change worldwide. In the United States, the foundation offers a limited number of fellowships for recipients, mostly selected through universities and other organizations that receive foundation grants. The National Academy of Sciences manages the fellowship programs offered by the foundation. The objective is to increase faculty diversity at U.S. colleges and universities. Students who are United States citizens or nationals at the predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral levels and in research-based fields are eligible for these fellowships. Selection of applicants is subject to academic performance and their commitment to pluralism, teaching and research.
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