If you have a talent for writing, and you are also lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, you may find that you can get help paying for your education on a LGBT scholarship through the Queer Foundation, with the Queer Foundation Scholarship Fund. This is one of the few opportunities available to the LGBT community, in terms of scholarship funds, that is almost completely based on writing skill.
The Queer Foundation was established and incorporated as a non-profit organization in the state of Washington. The goal of the organization is to improve the circumstances of LGBT youth through education, and this is done with the Queer Foundation Scholarship Fund. The Queer Foundation Scholarship Fund was established in 2006. The award must be used to enter into queer studies, but there is no clarity as to what fields this actually covers.
In order to be eligible for the Queer Foundation Scholarship Fund, you must be an LGBT student who is out. You must also prove that you are an activist for the LGBT community, have a social conscience, be willing to fight discrimination, and be committed to the goal of social change. The Queer Foundation LGBT Scholarship Fund is officially called the Queer Foundation Effective Writing and Scholarships Program.
Each year, this fund awards at least one $1000 scholarship to a high school student who meets the eligibility criteria through a national essay contest. Each year, the foundation presents a different theme for the essay contest and LGBT scholarship program. The essays that win form Queer-the Curriculum Materials, which are used in high schools to raise awareness. While LGBT students are the focus for this scholarship award, their allies are also welcome to participate.
There is, of course, more to writing a great essay to win one of these awards. If you are selected as a finalist, you will then have to participate in an individual interview. Your references will also be checked at that point, and those who do well in the interviews, and pass the reference check will be awarded the $1000 prizes, which can be used at any accredited college or university in the United States.
Aside from the $1000 LGBT scholarship, the winners are additionally awarded with mentoring, tutoring, and academic advisement. Winners must maintain a good grade point average and give back to the LGBT community. The foundation is also favorable to those students who continue to publish queer studies papers as well as those who volunteer to mentor high school students and their college peers.
The deadline for submitting your application and essay occurs each year in February, and a great deal of focus is placed on the originality of the essay, the accuracy, effectiveness, objectivity, grammar, sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation. Your ability to change the reader’s opinion or attitude is extremely valuable in the selection process.
The Queer LGBT scholarship award is not that high but it may not be that difficult as others to win and it will help pay for some college tuition which is better then nothing at all.
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