Scholarships and Awards

Scholarship Opportunities
1) Toyota Earth Day Scholarship:
Planning to start university next year? Consider applying for 1 of the $5000 Toyota Earth Day Scholarships for environmental leaders.

URL: http://www.earthday.ca/scholarship

2) Annie's Homegrown Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship:
Best-known for its bunny-adorned boxes of organic mac-n-cheese, Annie's Homegrown also maintains a strong commitment to sustainable agriculture. Each year, it awards monetary scholarships ($2,500 and $10,000) to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students who are pursuing food- and agriculture-related degrees.

URL: http://www.annies.com/sustainable_agriculture_scholarship

3) Manitoba Round Table for Sustainable Development Scholarship:
The Manitoba Round Table for Sustainable Development has established annual scholarships to assist post-secondary students in Manitoba who pursue studies and undertake research that embraces the spirit and principles of sustainable development.

The scholarship is open to students in any field of study offered at an approved Manitoba post-secondary institution.

Two single non-renewable awards are offered:

$6,000 graduate scholarship
$1,500 college and university undergraduate scholarship
The awards are to cover the cost of tuition, books, fees and other education expenses.

URL: http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/susresmb/scholarship/index.html

4) "I Am an Entrepreneur" photography competition:
The SEVEN Fund is pleased to announce the ‘I Am an Entrepreneur’ photography competition. This competition recognizes the outstanding use of photography to tell compelling stories of role model entrepreneurs from around the world. Anyone is welcome to participate in this competition. The competition will award twelve (12) prizes, one per month, over a period of one year. Each month, one finalist will be selected and will receive a prize of $100. The grand prize winner (selected from among the 12 finalist photographs) will receive $1,000 at the end of the year.

Often, the imagery associated with developing nations captures the misery that accompanies poverty. While it is important that these things are taken seriously and are documented, we believe that developing nations also represent tremendous opportunities for hope. The “I am an Entrepreneur” competition strives to reframe the dialogue around solutions to poverty by infusing the world's imagination with new imagery that focuses on entrepreneurship. Our objective with this competition is to gather stunning photographs profiling individual entrepreneurs from around the globe.

URL: http://www.sevenfund.org/entrepreneur-image/index.php

5) ECO Canada Scholarship:
ECO Canada awards four Canadian students annually with $2,500 towards their first-year tuition in an environmental program at any Canadian post-secondary institution.

Scholarships are awarded to individuals who have shown leadership in her or his community in the areas of environmental protection, conservation and preservation of natural resources, or environmental sustainability. Qualified students are chosen based on a reference letter and an essay about their environmental accomplishments and ambitions.

The top candidate each year is awarded an additional $2,500 through the Edit Petrovic Memorial Scholarship. Funding for the scholarships come from ECO Canada, and friends and family of Edit Petrovic.

To qualify for the scholarship program, students must: * Have been accepted to an environmental program in a Canadian post-secondary institution * Have graduated high school within the last 12 months * Have demonstrated leadership in their communities relevant to environmental issues * Be a Canadian citizen

URL: http://www.eco.ca


Award Opportunities
1) Brower Youth Awards:
We're looking for individuals ages 13-22 with the power and persistence to create environmental change.

The Brower Youth Awards honors six young people annually with a $3000 cash award and weeklong trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. During that week, award recipients will participate in a week of media and public outreach and be recognized at an awards ceremony attended by 900 members of the public.

Past winners have protected Native sacred sites from development, restored wetlands, spread awareness about threatened sea turtles, pushed for a clean energy future, and more. Their impact doesn't stop there. They continue as environmental change agents, writers, organizers, visionaries, and speakers, supported by Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative. Join them! Applications for the 2009 awards are due May 15.

Questions? Call or email Sharon Smith at 415-788-3666 x144, bya@earthisland.org.

URL: http://www.broweryouthawards.org


Submit Scholarship or Award Opportunities
Please use the form below to submit scholarship opportunities. Submissions do not need to be entirely environmental in nature; please feel free to submit scholarships which highlight other characteristics, such as community service or humanitarian achievements.