CALUMET AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION (CACHF)
INITIAL HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION AND PROCESS
Note: This application is to be
used only by current and prior
year area high school graduates
who have not previously applied for a CACHF health scholarship.
PURPOSE
The purpose of the health scholarship is to assist qualified applicants, as defined in CACHF Health Scholarship Rules, in
financing their vocational-technical school, junior and/or community
college, four year college or university education.
Total CACHF health scholarship amounts vary and will be awarded
eligible graduates.
QUALIFICATIONS
1.
Qualifying applicants must be either graduating seniors with an
overall grade point average of 2.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale through the
seventh semester or graduate with an overall grade point average of
2.0 or higher when graduated.
2.
The health scholarship can only be used at an accredited
vocational-technical school, junior and/or community college, four-year
college or university.
3.
Recipients may be enrolled as full time or part time students at one of these
educational institutions during the school year for which the health
scholarship is awarded.
4.
Health Scholarship amounts can be used to pay for only the following
expenses: tuition, fees and course-required books, supplies and equipment.
5. All applicants are restricted to a health/health related course of study when enrolled as a student, and must have declared a health related major. Applicants must have demonstrated an interest in health issues.
6.
Selection is based on the following criteria: (not necessarily in this
order) (a) health/heath related activities, (b) scholastic achievement, (c)
character, (d) personality, (e) initiative, (f) seriousness of purpose, (g)
financial need, (h) moral character, (i) citizenship, and (j) cooperation.
7.
First time applicants
must submit: a completed Initial
Health Scholarship application form, including high school transcript(s)
and three letters of recommendation.
Each letter of recommendation must include a statement setting forth
the reasons why the person making the recommendation believes the applicant
will finish the school program.
8.
Additionally, first time applicants either previously or currently enrolled
in a post secondary school must submit: all completed transcripts
from that school(s) through the date of the health scholarship application.
9.
A health scholarship recipient cannot be a “disqualified
person” as that term is defined in section 4946 (a)(1) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to Calumet Area Community Heath
Foundation, Inc. (“CACHF”), related to or have been employed by any person
who is a “disqualified person” with respect to CACHF.
As a general rule the following persons or family members of the
following persons are “disqualified persons” with respect to CACHF: (a)
substantial contributors to CACHF and/or (b) CACHF officers, directors,
committee members and employees.
DEADLINE
The completed Initial Health
Scholarship Application Form including attachments i.e. school
transcripts, recommendations etc. must be sent to CACHF by March 1st of
the year the scholarship is to be awarded.
Applicants should obtain required references and school transcripts
as soon as possible when they begin the health scholarship application
process to assure submission of a completed application by the required
deadline.
SELECTION COMMITTEE
CACHF’s Board of Directors is the health scholarship committee, which
selects health scholarship recipients.
AWARDING THE HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP
Health Scholarship recipients and amounts will be announced by CACHF around
the close of the school year.
Health scholarship money will be sent to the recipient’s school shortly
after the beginning of the fall semester, but not until recipients provide
CACHF with the complete name and address of the school’s financial aid
office and provide, when applicable, the “additional information” as stated
in the following paragraph titled “additional information”.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Upon completion of each school year for which a health scholarship is
awarded, but not later than 30 days after the school year has ended, prior
health scholarship recipients must provide CACHF with: a certified school
transcript, a brief description of their educational experience, use of
health scholarship funds, future education plans and progress being made
towards graduation. This
information may be verified by CACHF with the educational institution.
Recipients shall reapply for the health scholarship in subsequent
years, provided the recipient is making satisfactory progress towards
graduation and has not been delinquent in submission of their progress
report to CACHF. All recipients
agree to sign necessary authorizations for the release of their academic and
attendance records to CACHF representatives.
Calumet Area Community Health Foundation, Inc. (CACHF)
451
East Brooklyn Street
Suite #6
Chilton, WI 53014
Telephone No - 920-849-8700