Ashoka Changemakers® provides the tools and resources to empower everyone to contribute to a better world. Our community’s mission is to grow new ideas through transparency and collaboration, a process of Open Growth. No matter where you are starting, or where you are going, Changemakers makes it easier to share an idea, track progress, communicate with supporters, and invest in global change. Building an “Everyone a Changemaker” world

Ashoka Changemakers® is a global community of action that grows the impact of changemaking – from dedicated individuals and community organizers to Fortune 500 companies and global foundations.

Open Growth allows our community to transparently collaborate on identifying, tracking, and accelerating cutting-edge innovations.

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Castleton Admissions reviews each applicant holistically; all application materials submitted are taken into consideration for initial acceptance. New Student Scholarships further recognize students’ commitment to and success in academic and extra-curricular involvement. New student scholarships outlined on this sheet are awarded to full-time, bachelor degree seeking students regularly admitted by March 1, 2014 on a first come, first served basis for fall enrollment. Students may be awarded on a funds-available basis after March 1st. Limited scholarships are available for spring enrollment as listed. Each scholarship is based on the eligibility criteria listed, and students must meet all eligibility criteria at the time of acceptance. Applicant GPA is calculated by Castleton Admissions using completed academic courses only on an unweighted 4.0 scale. Students are offered the highest award for which they qualify. Amounts are non-negotiable and may be used for tuition only. Scholarships are renewable provided the student maintains the specified GPA. Castleton offers several additional scholarships to returning upperclassmen.

Various sources of funding opportunities for college students.

The Cleantech Open runs the world’s largest cleantech accelerator. Our mission is to find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental and economic challenges.

The Cleantech Open provides entrepreneurs and technologists the resources needed to launch and create successful and sustainable clean technology companies. We do this through our accelerator programs which provide participants with training, mentoring, infrastructure, relationships and funding opportunities to help grow them into world-class cleantech companies.

Since its inception in 2006, the Cleantech Open has awarded over $6 million in cash and services to support cleantech growth companies. The 727 participating companies in the Cleantech Open’s accelerator programs have raised more than $800 million in external capital.

The Cleantech Open’s reputation is built on its clean technology Accelerator, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. Cleantech Open alumni companies continue to score scientific breakthroughs, funding, deployments and customers.

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Good list of external scholarship resources for Vermont college students

Scholarships and grants available to Lyndon students

Start Up Funding
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation partners with entrepreneurs to build strong and capable organizations. We believe that multi-year, unrestricted grant funding is essential for an organization to plan properly, hire well, and focus on its mission. If a leader can build a strong organization from the beginning, the organization has a much better chance at scaled and sustainable impact. To that end, The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation provides $300,000 in startup funding, paid over 3 years, to organizations that show extraordinary promise.

Management Assistance
We serve as advisors and partners during the critical early years as the organizations build their infrastructure and begin to scale. We use a venture capital model and conduct extensive diligence before funding. We work closely with grantees on governance, strategy, management issues and growth, usually serving on their boards of directors.

Network of Entrepreneurs
Our portfolio is an actively expanding array of the brightest stars of the non-profit sector. Our entrepreneurs have a reputation for collaborating and setting a standard of excellence for their sector. The Foundation fosters collaboration through an annual entrepreneur retreat, events throughout the year, and group calls on management techniques and other topics pertinent to the portfolio.

The Purpose Prize®, now in its eighth year, is the nation’s only large-scale investment in people over 60 who are combining their passion and experience for social good. The Prize awards $100,000 to at least one individual in his or her encore career creating new ways to solve tough social problems.
The Prize was created in 2005 by Encore.org (formerly Civic Ventures), with funding from the John Templeton Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies to showcase the value of experience and disprove notions that innovation is the sole province of the young. It’s for those with the passion to make change and the experience to know how to do it.

Various sources of funding opportunities for college students.

Green Mountain College offers a wide range of scholarship and grants awarded based on merit and demonstrated financial need. All of GMC’s grants and scholarships are awarded for up to 4 years or 8 semesters. For scholarships and/or grants to be renewed each year, one must always maintain full-time enrollment and continue to make satisfactory academic progress. Certain scholarships and grants have additional requirements and deadlines. See below.

Various sources of funding opportunities for college students.

The largest source of scholarships at Johnson State College is institutional merit scholarships. Institutional merit scholarships are generally awarded based on stated criteria such as grade point average, SAT or ACT score, or exceptional talent. Other scholarships may be awarded based on affiliation with a certain group, or interest in a specific subject area like math or science, etc. Need-based scholarships and grants are awarded based upon a student’s financial need. Some scholarships are awarded based on both merit and financial need.

Various grant sources available to students

Scholarships and grants available to Lyndon students

Opportunities available for Marlboro students.

Opportunities available for college students.

Various sources of funding opportunities for college students.

Various sources of funding opportunities for college students.

The NOFA Vermont Revolving Loan Fund was jointly established in 1994 by NOFA Vermont and Chittenden Bank’s Socially Responsible Banking Fund (formally Vermont National Bank). NOFA Vermont manages the $90,000 fund. The motivation to create the fund arose from an increasing number of loan requests from small scale organic farmers; farmers who lack credit history and therefore could not secure conventional loans; and the need for short-term working capital.

Various scholarship opportuities for Norwich University students

Scholarships for alumni and recent graduates. The College of Graduate and Continuing Studies was created in part to provide alumni and their families with help in fulfilling their lifetime learning needs and career goals.

Various external funding sources for undergraduate and graduate study.

The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People is prepared to establish partnerships with groups in the United States who:
are oppressed by poverty and social systems,
want to take charge of their own lives,
have organized or are organizing to do something about their own conditions,
have decided that what they are going to do will produce long term changes for their lives or communities,
will control the programs they own and will benefit from them directly.
Partnerships are initiated by applications to the Self-Development of People Committee and are evaluated against Self-Development’s funding criteria.

Saint Michael’s rewards academic achievement and promise with a number of merit scholarships. All applicants for admission will be considered for merit-based scholarships.

We assist faculty, staff and students with major grants that focus on broad institutional programs and initiatives from federal and private sources. We help obtain funding through major grants programs for faculty scholarship, research and fellowships and coordinate collaborations through sub-grants and awards from other insitutions and partners.

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select few social entrepreneurs whose proven innovations have demonstrated impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll Award recognizes organizations with the potential to not only be individually successful, but also to catalyze large-scale, system-level change.
We fund organizations that focus on one or more of the following areas:
Deforestation
Education and Economic Opportunity
Effective Development
Healthcare Access and Treatment
Smallholder Productivity and Food Security
Peace and Human Security
Sustainable Markets
Water and Sanitation
Skoll provides funding to grantees, along with connection to Skoll’s network of 900-plus social entrepreneurs and other innovators who attend the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. This connection to other social innovators extends year-round through the Skoll World Forum Online.

Southern Vermont College offers scholarships and grants designed to assist in payment of the tuition bill. Eligibility for these awards is based upon a variety of criteria, including but not limited to, academic merit, financial need and community service. Regardless of the type of institutional award, it may not exceed the cost of tuition when combined with other awards that are designed for tuition only. All students who receive Southern Vermont College Grants/Scholarships are required to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA. Students who earn less than this standard will have an opportunity to appeal if there were extenuating circumstances that occurred during the academic year.

The goal of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship Program is to support highly talented graduate students in New England and California whose studies are directed toward improving environmental quality and who clearly demonstrate leadership potential in their field.
Now in its 27th year, the Switzer Environmental Fellowship provides a combination of funding for graduate study, trainings to help develop leadership skills, and participation in the Switzer Fellowship Network. The Foundation’s primary interest is in developing environmental leaders for the 21st century who have the ability, determination and integrity to effect positive change. Only the most active, committed and focused individuals will compete successfully to join the Switzer Fellowship Network of over 530 Fellows selected since 1986.
Awards have been made to students pursuing a wide range of environmental fields including environmental policy, economics, conservation, public health, journalism, architecture, environmental justice, business and law as well as traditional environmental sciences including biology, chemistry and engineering. In all cases, a commitment to interdisciplinary work, applied results and collaboration is paramount.

Innovation for the Developing World

The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation recognizes individuals whose technological innovations improve the lives of impoverished people in the developing world. The award also establishes (or creates) inventor role models who can inspire youth to solve challenges in the developing world through invention.

Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation Objectives

To foster technological innovation for the developing world, the Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation celebrates outstanding technology-focused inventors who:

work in any of the following areas of basic human needs of health, shelter, energy, agriculture, quality of air, water, soil, shelter, education, or ecosystem management
have already disseminated technology/ies that are further scalable or replicable
draw attention to, and increase youth interest in, the challenges facing developing countries and the role of invention in addressing those challenges

Union Institute & University has partnered with several organizations and institutions in furthering its mission and vision to provide accessible education. Please see the list below of current articulation agreements to determine if you are eligible for tuition discounts or scholarships afforded through these agreements.

Incentive Grant is a need-based grant awarded to full-time undergraduate Vermont residents enrolled or accepted for enrollment in eligible degree programs who have not already received bachelor’s degrees..
Vermont residents may qualify for the Vermont Part-time Grant if they are enrolled or accepted for enrollment in eligible undergraduate degree programs and have not already received a bachelor’s degree. Students must be taking fewer than 12 credit hours.
Vermont residents who are not enrolled in high school and are enrolled in non-degree courses that will improve their employability may apply for the Vermont Non-degree Grant.

Provides prestigious, competitive awards to outstanding undergraduate engineers who wish to pursue a specific research project under the mentorship of a faculty member. The proposed projects must fit within the general research area of the faculty advisor and must be approved prior to proposal submission. In this way, undergraduates have the opportunity and resources to pursue independent research as well as work closely with active faculty members who are leading scholars in their fields.

The competition is structured to mirror both the application process and the execution of a program that would typically be funded by an external granting agency:

students are required to submit a proposal describing a specific research project to be completed under the direction of a faculty mentor;
proposals are evaluated by a panel of four UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences faculty, and the top ranked proposals are elected for funding; and
awardees carry out the research during a semester and a summer, create and present a poster describing their work and their results, and submit a final report detailing the outcomes.
In many instances, results may be suitable for presentation at regional or national conferences and/or publication. Also, awardees are honored at a special event each year, and their efforts are publicized by the University.

Priority is given to students in their sophomore and junior year.

A charitable bequest from Louise Raynor’s estate established an endowed scholarship fund for graduate students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ department of plant biology. Raynor specialized in plant diversity and plant micro-technique courses in the University of Vermont botany department from 1946-1968. Her exquisitely prepared paraffin sections of a remarkable array of plants showing the beauty of plant interiors are still part of the department’s teaching collection. She retired as an associate professor. Raynor, 98, died in 2010.

Scholarships for Prospective Vermont Resident Students

Various fellowships, assistantships and limited service scholarships offered through the Graduate College, or individual graduate programs.

Funding sources for new and practicing Vermont Farmers

Funding sources for new and practicing Vermont Farmers

A program of the community action agencies, Individual Development Accounts programs can help you improve your financial picture by learning about budgeting and household finances while you save a part of your earned income for a first time home purchase, developing a small business, or post-high school education and training. Savings are matched 2:1 on $500 savings for up to two years in a special bank account or IDA (Individual Development Account). You save regularly to reach your goal and attend financial education training as well as homeownership training, career counseling, or business counseling to improve your success in owning your new asset. To find out about the program and apply, contact your local community action agency.

Scholarships, ranging from a few thousand dollars to full tuition, are awarded by Vermont Law School and made possible through the generous contributions of VLS friends, alumni, and others. The awards are based on academic abilities, achievements, community service, and other considerations. Scholarships are awarded to accepted applicants after a review of their admission file. All accepted applicants are considered for scholarships. No separate application form is necessary to be considered for a merit-based or endowed scholarship.
Each scholarship may be renewed for all three years of law school, provided that academic performance criteria are met.

Center for Agriculture and Food Systems LLM Fellowship
This two-year fellowship provides the opportunity to earn an LLM degree in Environmental Law while working in the cutting-edge field of agriculture and food law.
Institute for Energy and the Environment Global Energy Fellowship
The Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE) at Vermont Law School invites applications for a two-year Global Energy Fellowship.
Public Interest Fellowships
Public Interest Fellowships for currently enrolled JD students
U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law LLM Fellowship

Vermont Society of Engineers (VSE) Scholarship
The Vermont Society of Engineers seeks to encourage the development of Vermont’s next generation of talented and dedicated engineers, and thus offers the VSE Education and Research Foundation Scholarship each year. For more information about VSE, visit their website, www.vsoe.org.

Scholarship criteria and application information:

• Students must be enrolled in an Engineering curriculum at the University of Vermont, Norwich University or Vermont Technical College.
• Students must have graduated (or will have graduated) from a Vermont high school and be in good academic standing.
• VSE Scholars are awarded a scholarship of $2,000 per year.
• Applications are available in March each year, and must be submitted to the Student Financial Services (SFS) office by April 30th. Selected students are notified in August.

Scholarships by Major – organized by major providing a list of scholarships that are available for students in a particular major. View individual scholarships and the application forms.

Various sources of funding opportunities for college students.

The Carol A. Moore Scholarship recognizes women currently working in higher education who are successful in their roles, who intend to engage in professional development or academic pursuits in order to further their career, and who demonstrate a commitment to supporting women’s leadership. VWHE is pleased to offer up to two $1,000 scholarships in support of this mission.

A grant is an outright gift of money that usually doesn’t need to be repaid. That’s why it’s sometimes referred to as “gift aid.“

Most grants are based on a family’s level of financial need.

The Vermont Legislature designates a certain amount of grant money every year for Vermont residents who want to pursue education or training beyond high school. These grants are administered through VSAC.