High School Blood Drive Scholarship Program
Broward & Palm Beach Public and Private High Schools
Miami-Dade County Private Schools

Overview
Community Blood Centers of South Florida, Inc. shall donate funds through The Scholarship Assistance Foundation, a (501) 3c Corporation, to support tuition assistance for students attending post-secondary institutions (e.g. colleges, universities, community colleges, institutions, technical centers).

The Scholarship Assistance Foundation is the Community Blood Centers' direct support organization. The Foundation is organized and operated exclusively to receive, hold and to make expenditures in the form of scholarships for the benefit of public and private high school students pursuing higher education.

Donation
Community Blood Centers of South Florida, Inc. shall donate to the Foundation approximately $20 per unit of blood collected from blood drives at public and private high schools in Broward and Palm Beach Counties and private high schools in Miami-Dade.

Program
This program was established to recognize excellence in participation in the blood drive program with Community Blood Centers of South Florida. Every high school has the opportunity to earn scholarship monies based on the success of their respective blood drives.

Each scholarship awared will be a minimum of $500.00

Criteria for application for this unique scholarship include the following:

• Demonstrated outstanding personal leadership among his/her peers by participating in the coordination of a blood drive program at respective high schools.
• Letter of recommendation from the blood drive faculty contact, teacher or principal.
• Have an unweighted GPA of at least 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.
• Will be graduating from high school during this calendar year.
• Official scholarship appications must be received by the dealine to be considered.

A committee comprised of community members selected by the Foundation will make selection of recipients.

Distributions of Scholarships

Awards will be presented at the Annual Community Blood Centers of South Florida Awards Luncheon. The Broward County Council of Senior Citizens and the North Broward Senior Citizens will award three additional scholarships at the year-end luncheon for Broward County Public Schools.