For Transgender Identified Students in the Helping and Caring Professions

Next deadline for applications is January 10, 2009

Application - General Information

Eligibility

• Transgender identified students who will be enrolled in a post-secondary program in the helping and caring professions including Social Services, Health Care, Religious Instruction and the Law in the United States and Canada.
• Planning to attend post-secondary educational program during the next academic year
• Not a prior Transgender Scholarship and Education Legacy Fund award recipient.
• Application is limited to trans-individuals that are living full-time in a gender or sex role that differs from the one assigned to them at birth.
• Applicants must be, or will be, "Out and Proud" as having a transgender identity to their peers as well as the educational and professional systems that they are seeking scholarship assistance for.

Eligible post-secondary Academic Institutions

• Colleges or Universities (at undergraduate or post-graduate level) in the helping and caring professions including Social Services, Health Care, Religious Instruction and the Law.
• Trade Schools or Technical Colleges in the helping and caring professions including Social Services, Health Care, Religious Instruction and the Law.

Terms of the Awards

• Grants are educational in nature and can be applied to tuition, books, fees, dissertation, or personal expenses.
• Grants will be paid directly to the awardees, not to the educational institutions they attend.
• Valid only for the next academic year.

Criteria for Judging Applications

• Applicant's affirmation of their transgender identity.
• Applicant's demonstration of integrity and honesty.
• Applicant's participation and leadership in community activities.
• Applicant's service as role model, mentor, colleague or advisor for the transgender communities.
• Applicant's service as transgender role model, mentor, colleague or advisor to non-transpeople in the helping and caring professions.

Application Deadline

Applications must be postmarked by January 10th. Scholarship awards will be made at the IFGE convention ( www.ifge.org ). Supporting materials should arrive within one week of the Januart 10th deadline.

Materials sent by e-mail or fax will not be accepted. Send all application materials to: