2010-2011 Scholarship Timeline and Forms

Contact Scholarships Manager Kerry Franco today at (213) 452-6225 for more information.

Scholarship funds like yours are a meaningful philanthropic vehicle. To ensure the integrity of your gift, we are committed to adhering to federal regulations and we appreciate your attention to these materials.

Review the timeline for 2010-2011 scholarships.

The forms for 2010-2011 scholarship year include:

Scholarship Committee Statement (fillable pdf)

Application and Selection Criteria (fillable pdf)

Scholarship Reporting Form (fillable pdf)

Scholar Recommendation Form (Excel)

To summarize, the information you provide will assist us to ensure that together we meet the following regulations:

1. Donor participates as a minority on the selection committee.
2. Scholarships are awarded on an objective and nondiscriminatory basis.
3. No grants may be awarded to an officer, manager or trustee of the organization, nor to a member of the selection committee, nor to a substantial contributor.
4. Family members of these individuals are also not eligible to receive grants.
5. A charitable class must be sufficiently large and indefinite so that assisting members of the charitable class benefits the community as a whole. Earmarking scholarships to help a particular pre-selected student would violate this requirement. The donor of a scholarship cannot take a charitable deduction for a scholarship that is earmarked for the benefit of a specific individual, not even if that individual is unrelated to the donor. Moreover, donors may not circumvent this restriction by tightly delineating the selection criteria. Examples of valid charitable classes include 9/11 victims, lower income students, female students, students graduating in the top 10% of their class, all graduating seniors of a particular school, and even baton twirlers. Each of these examples is broad and indefinite.