Accepting Applications for the 2024 ScholHERships Through May 10, 2024!

Soroptimist International of Vacaville Twilight Club will award scholarships of no less than $250 each to individuals who identify as female, pursuing additional training through a vocational/tech school or apprenticeship program. This could also include adult school students that may be enrolled in a short term skills improvement program. You must be a Vacaville resident and currently enrolled or enrolling in a program.

LIVE YOUR DREAM -

Applications are currently closed. We will accept applications for this year beginning August through November 15, 2024.

The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards assist women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects.

Each year, more than $1.7 million in education grants are awarded to more than 1,300 women, many of whom have overcome enormous obstacles including poverty, domestic violence and/or drug and alcohol abuse. Live Your Dream Awards recipients may use the cash award to offset any costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education, such as books, childcare, tuition and transportation.

In addition to providing the primary financial support for their families, eligible applicants must be enrolled in, or have been accepted to, a vocational/skills training program or an undergraduate degree program and must demonstrate financial need. Also, please note only residents of Soroptimist International of the Americas’ member countries and territories are eligible to apply for the educational grants.

The Live Your Dream Awards involves three levels of cash awards. The program begins at the local Soroptimist club-level, where award amounts vary. Local-level award recipients become eligible for region-level awards of either $3,000 or $5,000. Region-level award recipients then become eligible to receive one of three international-level awards of $10,000.

Since the Live Your Dream Awards program began in 1972, about $30 million in education grants have been disbursed to assist tens of thousands of women achieve their dreams of a better life for themselves and their families. In 2007, the program received the Associations Advance America Summit Award—ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership's highest level of recognition.

To apply for the LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARD

Please fill out this application and utilize this reference form.