Community Service Stipend for Youth-Applications Now Available
The Liberty Hill Foundation
through its Bertha Wolf-Rosenthal Foundation Fund for Community Service
Stipend will provide up to to five young people (ages 18-25 as of the
end of December 2009) with a stipend of $5,000 each to help cover basic
living costs (e.g., rent, food, utilities, transportation and
childcare) while they work at a nonprofit organization anywhere in
California during the 2010 calendar year.
Applications are due Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Notifications will be made by Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Please take
note of all the application requirements. Below you shall find the
eligibility criteria.
For other grants and stipend programs
available through the Liberty Hill Foundation, go to
http://www.libertyhill.org/grant/home.html.
Warm regards,
Fabian Rentera
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Bertha Wolf-Rosenthal Foundation Fund
For Community Service Stipend
Eligibility Criteria
To
be considered for the Bertha Wolf-Rosenthal Foundation Fund for
Community Service Stipend, applicants must meet all of the following
criteria:
1. Show a history of community service work (in and/or out of school).
2.
Demonstrate her/his financial need for supplementary income in the
absence of support from family and/or other outside resources. Please
note that there is no particular threshold of financial need we are
considering. It is up to the applicant to decide if she/he would be a
competitive applicant given her/his particular circumstances.
3.
Currently work full-time (defined as 30+ hours/week) for a nonprofit
organization in California. Unpaid interns working 30+ hours/week for
the entire year may also apply.
This
stipend is not a scholarship or a reward for prior nonprofit work. The
stipend will go directly to the recipient and the nonprofit
organization may not consider the stipend as a portion of the
recipient's salary. The recipient
Must
also stay at their place of employment for the duration of the calendar
year. Recipients who leave before the end of the calendar year will be
required to return a proportional amount of the stipend.