NNPCW Scholarship Fund

Applicants: Learn more about NNPCW scholarships

NNPCW's scholarship program helps equip young women to be leaders in both church and society. We are offering three scholarships this year: one $1,000 scholarship for an NNPCW member active in empowering women on her campus and two $1,500 scholarships for new immigrant women 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 non-citizen of the United States, anyone - regardless of immigration status - who has been living in the country for five years or less)
• Have applied and/or been accepted to an accredited post-secondary 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:

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
National Network of Presbyterian College Women (NNPCW)
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, currentlyly 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. Name and Social Security number should be clearly printed on the upper right hand corner of each page. (Applicants for the New Immigrant scholarship must also include her visa number.)

Deadline for applications has been extended to May 30, 2008. Applications must be postmarked by this date.

Download the application forms

NNPCW scholarship application

New Immigrant scholarship application

Not Eligible for NNPCW's Scholarships?

Check out other opportunities for financial aid for studies here.

Help provide opportunities for young women

We need your help

CoCo meetings aren't just business! Photo by Katie Anderson.

You may already be familiar with NNPCW's other valuable ministries: our annual leadership event that draws 30-50 women per year, our newsletter, Sisters Together, that reaches 1,400 women and men every semester, a 190-page discussion resource available to all college women free of charge and our funding for student networking at all levels of the church. As we continue to provide these powerful opportunities for spiritual growth at an affordable cost for young women, we have little left to contribute financially toward new ministries. To add a new program like this one, NNPCW must seek outside sources.

What can your gift to the NNPCW Scholarship Project do?

• $1,000 will fund an entire year's scholarship for one Christian feminist college student.
• $250 will buy a semester's worth of books for a young immigrant woman struggling to make it through school.
• $50 will provide a week-long scholarship for one student.
• $25 will be the difference between buying the text and skipping the reading altogether.

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Alumnae Maren Haynes takes time to read the NNPCW Newsletter. Photo by Virginia Hines.

The National Network of Presbyterian College Women provides young women with opportunities for leadership training and spiritual development in the PC(USA). Students in the network find effective ways to connect to one another and to the church and to grow in their Christian faith. Gifts to this project will provide scholarships for young women to attend college and will strengthen the network's annual leadership event.

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Questions?

If you have any further questions about the project, please contact us.  We are grateful for your generous gift to help NNPCW members and new immigrant women of faith attend college.

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