Scholarship Requirements:
- Applicant must be a Grange member in good standing with a minimum of one year of membership.
- Scholarship is available for graduating high school seniors or continuing two-year community college, four-year college/university, or postsecondary vocational school students attending an accredited school. Students pursuing graduate degrees or higher vocational certifications are also eligible to apply.
- Scholarship is available to full time or part time students.
- An applicant is eligible to apply for the scholarship each year; however, if selected, will only be eligible to receive it a maximum of two times.
- Two (2) - Recommendation Letters are required.
- 1 – from a member of the applicant’s Community (local) Grange. It may be an officer or member of the Community Grange
- 1 – from a teacher/guidance counselor/mentor. The letter should be on school letterhead or organizational letterhead, if applicable.
The writers of the letters of recommendation must be unrelated to the applicant.
To ensure that the application package is complete, we will accept recommendation letters electronically in a PDF format, if the teacher/guidance counselor/mentor desires to send it separately. It must be received by the deadline of March 1.
- Essay – Applicant may use one of the prompts below for their essay. The limit is a maximum of 500 words or the equivalent of two pages, typed, double spaced. The prompts are:
- How will the furtherance of my education help the Grange or my community?
- What does Grange membership mean to you?
- How has the Grange helped to develop me as a person/leader?
- Please include a current headshot with your application, along with signed Grange FoundationMedia Release Form.
- Be sure to send a complete application package. This is a Grange scholarship, so Grange involvement and activities will be weighted heavily in the selection process.
- The scholarship winner will receive notification of scholarship by April 30.
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