Purpose:  To provide educational resources for the owners and their dependents of homes built by Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc.

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Criteria:

An individual planning to attend an accredited junior college, college or university. (Vocational training programs are not eligible for the scholarship.) Applicant must be a current homeowner resident or dependent of homeowner resident of a home built by Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc. and must be residing in home at time of scholarship application. Applicants and recipients may re-apply.

Deadline March 1

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Application Instructions:

To apply for this scholarship, you must complete an online application and submit a packet of additional materials in hard copy.  Both of these components MUST be RECEIVED by the March 1st deadline. 

The scholarship packet requires your school counselor, registrar or principal to verify your academic information so be sure to allow sufficient time to submit the application.  Incomplete and late applications will not be accepted.

To download the Application Checklist, click on the link below. Be sure that you access this checklist from the link on this webpage.  Although many checklists are the same or similar, they are not all identical.  Failure to use the appropriate checklist may lead to disqualification of your application due to insufficient data. Follow the instructions carefully to avoid submitting an incomplete application.

Application Checklist

To download the Academic Verification Form, click on the link below.

Academic Verification Form

To download the recommendation form, click on the link below. Two completed recommendation forms are required to apply.

Recommendation Form

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Links to Online Applications:

To begin a new online application, click on the link below and follow the instructions listed on the form.

New Application

To finish a saved application, click the link below.

Saved Application

 

If you have any questions, contact James Patterson at 962-2110 ext. 11 or e-mail.