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. 16-year-olds are now permitted to donate blood and must have a signed
consent form filled out prior to their donation.

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 Senior has the opportunity to earn scholarship monies based on their involvement in blood drives at their high school

Each scholarship awared will be a minimum of $500.00

Criteria for application for this unique scholarship will include the following:

• Demonstrated outstanding personal leadership among his/her peers by participating in the coordination of blood drives 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.

Distribution of Scholarships
A selection committee comprised of community members selected by the Foundation will make selection of recipients. Awards will be presented at the Annual Community Blood Centers of South Florida Awards Luncheon or at the Senior Awards Program at respective high schools. In Broward County Public Schools the Broward County Council of Senior Citizens and the North Broward Senior Citizens will award five additional scholarships at the year-end luncheon.