Scholarship
Committee

IT’S FALL: TIME TO START PLANNING FOR THE 2024
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION PROCESS!
 

Oh, my goodness, we are fully into Fall and the winter holidays are  on the horizon!  This time of year is a busy time for everyone but especially for scholarship applicants and the scholarship committee. We had a successful scholarship information night in September. We’ve been reaching out to the schools in our service area of Santa Ana, Tustin and Irvine, giving them the information on our available scholarships and this month we’ll be expecting our first applications of the season.  

 

The Most Valuable Student applications are the first to be due on 11/12/24. This scholarship the applicants have a chance to compete at the district, state and even national levels of our Elks organization. We have had several students in the past receive the larger district and state awards and one who was one of 20 in the nation to receive a national award. 

 

The Bob McCalla Scholarship is a memorial legacy scholarship honoring Bob McCalla and his contributions to our lodge. That scholarship awards a minimum of five $1,000 college scholarships a year and applications are due on 12/20/24.

 

The last scholarship I’d like to draw your attention to is the Opportunity Scholarship, applications also due on 12/20/24. This is a new scholarship this year, funded by one of our members, that is designed to lend a hand to those students attending or planning to attend a community college program.

 

A complete list of the scholarships our 794 Lodge offers is listed below.  Thanks to Marc LaFont and Wendy Becerra we’ve taken our scholarships access and information to the next level and entered the digital era! You can download copies at SAElks.com/scholarships and we also have paper copies of our scholarship grid available in the lodge lobby.

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