NNPCW Academic Scholarship Fund

Applicantion deadline: March 15, 2010

NNPCW's academic scholarship program helps equip young women to be leaders in both church and society. We are offering two scholarships this year: one $1,500 scholarship for an NNPCW member active in empowering women on her campus and one $1,500 scholarships for a new immigrant woman pursuing a college education.

If you would like to apply and are not yet a member of NNPCW, join online now.

What are the requirements?

Applicants for the NNPCW scholarship must:

• Be a woman between the ages of 18 and 25
• Be an undergraduate student at an accredited college or university in the United States
• Provide a transcript
• Be involved in a Christian church or campus ministry
• Write two essays answering these questions:
  1) How does your faith inform your studies and your vocational choice? and
  2) How do you integrate NNPCW’s mission commitment (we commit to feminism as an extension of our Christian belief that all people are made in the image of God as equals) into your past and future activism on campus?
• Demonstrate financial need

Applicants for the New Immigrant scholarship must:

• Be a woman between the ages of 18 and 25
• Be a new immigrant to the United States (a noncitizen of the United States, anyone — regardless of immigration status — who has been living in the country for five years or fewer)
• Have applied and/or been accepted to an accredited postsecondary institution of higher learning (i.e. college, university and trade school)
• Be a full-time student
• Be involved in and with the Christian church; preference will be given to those affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
• Write two essays answering these questions:
  1) How does your faith inform your studies and your vocational choice? and
  2) How do you integrate NNPCW’s mission commitment (we commit to feminism as an extension of our Christian belief that all people are made in the image of God as equals) into your past and future activism on campus?
• Demonstrate financial need

Any year of student may apply, including incoming first year students.

How do students apply?

Mail below items in one envelope addressed to:

National Network of Presbyterian College Women (NNPCW)
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Attn: Scholarship Application
100 Witherspoon Street
Louisville, KY  40202-1396

Send original applications only – facsimile submissions will not be accepted.

Completed application must include:

• Application form with financial forms
• Transcripts from all colleges or universities enrolled, currently or in the past
• Two sealed letters of recommendation, with recommender’s signature over the seal to ensure confidentiality
• Two essays typed and double-spaced. Your name should be clearly printed on the upper right hand corner of each page.

Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2010.

Download the application forms

NNPCW scholarship application
New Immigrant scholarship application

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