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Scholarships 101: The Real-World Guide to Getting Cash for College was written by someone that managed a pre-college program and understands how youth program and college transition programs operate. Kim Stezala provides two levels of service to such programs:

(2) Management consulting that helps nonprofit and education leaders create programs, develop strengths, measure impact and share results.

Whether you need a motivational guest speaker to help your students get excited about scholarships or someone who can help you increase the successful outcomes of your program, call Kim Stezala: 414-747-9391.

(1) Assign a scholarship king or queen on your staff. If it is “no one’s” job to gather scholarship information, sift through the possibilities and refer students then “no one” will do it.

(2) Measure your success with scholarships. Track every dollar won by your students. You can use this information in your grant proposals and show your investors (donors) that for every dollar they invested, your students leveraged “$x dollars more.”

(3) Meet the sponsors. Scholarship providers are looking for students like your students but you’d be surprised how many of them are not aware of college access programs. Make a list of the sponsors from which your students historically have received the most funding and create a plan to better connect with them. Your students need them and they need your students - win/win.

(4) Invest in essay-writing classes. Your students may not have attended an elite college prep high school with advanced level English courses. What if their competition did? Many scholarship applications ask for an essay or a least paragraph-length answers. This is one area in which you can really help your students brush up their skills.