Next deadline for applications is January 10, 2009

Sponsoring a Scholarship

How you can sponsor your own scholarship!

Many people are interested in sponsoring a Scholarship, either in memory of a special person, as a project for a professional or social group, or just as something they can do to provide assistance and recognition to a new generation of transgender care and service providers.

However, these people are often not ready to take on all the specific tasks that are required to effectively offer and award a scholarship; tasks such as printing and distributing an application form, accepting applications, obtaining school transcripts and references, checking these, evaluating applications and choosing a winner, and making payment arrangements.

By working together with TSELF and IFGE, people are able to offer a scholarship of their own. They take charge of raising the funds for their own scholarship, and specifying the selection criteria for choosing the scholarship winner, while TSELF takes care of all of the mechanics of actually offering and awarding the scholarship. IFGE is a registered non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation and is funded entirely by private donation, with limited income from sales of publications.

The following section indicates how this arrangement works -- it shows who does what parts of the job.

Basic Agreement

• ..To raise the funds needed to sponsor a scholarship award. Basic amounts are:
    $550 ($  500 scholarship + $ 50 for costs)
  $1100 ($1000 scholarship + $100 for costs)
  $1650 ($1500 scholarship + $150 for costs)
  $2200 ($2000 scholarship + $200 for costs)
  

  (Of course larger amounts are fine, too!)
• ..To provide award criteria for the scholarship selection committee. (Please remember that the more limits you put on your scholarships, harder it will be to find an appropriate student to receive the award.)

• ..To handle printing, distribution, and promotion of applications for the award.
• ..To collect and verify completed applications, transcripts, and references.
• ..To select an award recipient, based on your specified criteria.
• ..To hold an annual public Awards Presentation Ceremony.
• ..To administrate payment of the award.

If you have any interest in sponsoring a scholarship, please do not hesitate to contact us for more information. TSELF can be reached at: