The Asian Women In Business Scholarship Fund

AWIB
The Asian Women In Business Scholarship encourages and promote exceptional Asian female students who have demonstrated scholarship, leadership, community service and/ or entrepreneurship. The AWIB Scholarship Fund will begin awarding Scholarships in January 2009 to students who have the attributes to be our next generation of leaders.



Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2008. Winners will be notified by December 15, 2008.
The first AWIB Scholarship Awards Ceremony will be held January 12, 2009 in New York City.
Six Scholarships of $2,500 each will be awarded. Click here for the application form.


ELIGIBILITY:
Candidates for the scholarship must be female of Asian (includes those who can trace their ancestry from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam) or Pacific Islander ancestry.

Candidates must also fulfill the following criteria to be considered:

  • Must have at least one or more of the following:
    a) demonstrated a leadership role in a community or non-profit endeavor; b) started a business / has a record of entrepreneurial achievement
  • Must be enrolled full time in an accredited four year undergraduate program in the US
  • Must carry a minimum of 3.0 GPA at the time of nomination and provide most recent official transcripts
  • U.S. citizen or permanent resident

The AWIB Scholarship Fund was established in 2006. Scholarships will be awarded annually subject to availability of funds. AWIB is presently accepting donations to the Scholarship Fund. You can be a catalyst in encouraging the leadership development of Asian women in college. Please make a contribution today to the AWIB Scholarship Fund.

Donate online via paypal

Or send a check with the donation form to AWIB Scholarship Fund, Asian Women In Business, 42 Broadway, Suite 1748, New York, NY 10004. Checks should be payable to the AWIB Scholarship Fund.

Questions? Call 212.868.1368 or email info@awib.org



Donations to the Fund are fully tax-deductible under IRS Section 501(c)(3).

Funding is dependent on the generosity of individual donors