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SCHOLARSHIP UPDATE 2010 

AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDENTS

ARE NOT APPLYING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS:

 Even if you do not have a college-aged child at home, please share this with someone who does, and to anyone and everyone that comes to mind. Though there are a number of companies and organizations that have donated money for scholarships to African Americans and Latino Students, a great deal of the money is being returned because of a lack of interest or awareness. No one is going to knock on our doors and ask if we can use a scholarship. Take the initiative to get your children involved. Money shouldn’t be returned to donating companies because we fail to apply for it. Please pass this information on to family members, nieces, nephews, friends with children etc. We must get the word out that money is available. If you are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be. (If clicking on the link doesn’t work, then type in the Web site address manually.)

1) BELL LABS FELLOWSHIPS FOR UNDER REPRESENTED MINORITIES

http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/CRFP/info.html 

 

2) Student Inventors Scholarships

http://www.invent.org/collegiate/

 

 

3) Student Video Scholarships

http://www.christophers.org/vidcon2k.html

 

 

4) Coca-Cola Two Year College Scholarships

http://www.coca-colascholars.org/programs.html

 

 

5) Ayn Rand Essay Scholarships

http://www.aynrand.org/contests/

 

 

6) Brand Essay Competition

http://www.instituteforbrandleadership.org/IBLEssayContest-2002Rules.htm

 

 

7) Gates Millennium Scholarships (major)

http://www.gmsp.org/nominationmaterials/read.dbm?ID=12

 

 

Sports Scholarships and Internships

http://www.ncaa.org/about/scholarships.html

 

 

9) National Assoc. Of Black Journalists Scholarships

http://www.nabj.org/html/studentsvcs.html

 

 

10) Saul T. Wilson Scholarships (Veterinary)

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/mb/mrphr%20/jobs/stw.HTML

11) Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund

http://www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org/sk_v6.cfm

 

 

12) FinAid: The Smart Students Guide to Financial Aid scholarships)

http://www.finaid.org/

 

 

13) Presidential Freedom Scholarships

http://www.nationalservice.org/scholarships

 

 

14) Microsoft Scholarship Program

http://www.microsoft.com/college/scholarships/minority.asp

 

 

15) Hope Scholarships &Lifetime Credits

http://www.ed.gov/inits/hope

 

16) William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship for Minority Students

http://www.apsanet.org/PS/grants/aspen3.cfm

 

 

17) Guaranteed Scholarships

http://www.guaranteed-scholarships.com/

 

 

18) Maryland Artists Scholarships

http://www.maef.org/

 

 

19) Jacki Tuckfield Memorial Graduate Business Scholarship

 http://www.jackituckfield.org/

 

 

20) Historically Black College & University Scholarships

http://www.iesabroad.org/info/hbcu.htm

 

 

21) Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students

http://www.beanactuary.org/minority/scholarships.htm

 

 

22) International Students Scholarships &Aid Help

http://www.iefa.org/

 

 

23) Siemens Westinghouse Competition

http://www.siemens-foundation.org/

 

 

24) GE and LuLac Scholarship Funds

http://www.lulac.org/Programs/Scholar.html

 

 

25) CollegeNets Scholarship Database

http://mach25.collegenet.com/cgi-bin/M25/index

 

26) Union Sponsored Scholarships and Aid

http://www.aflcio.org/scholarships/scholar.htm

 

 

27) Federal Scholarships &Aid Gateways 25 Scholarship Gateways from Black Excel

http://www.blackexcel.org/25scholarships.htm

 

 

28) Scholarship &Financial Aid Help

http://www.blackexcel.org/fin-sch.htm

 

 

29) FAFSA On The Web (Your Key Aid Form &Info)

http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

 

30) Aid &Resources For Re-Entry Students

http://www.back2college.com/

 

 

31) HBCU Packard Sit Abroad Scholarships (for study around the world)

http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/packard_nomination.html

 

 

32) Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities

http://ccmi.uchicago.edu/schl1.html

 

 

33) INROADS internships

http://www.inroads.org/

 

 

34) Black Alliance for Educational Options Scholarships

http://www.baeo.org/

 

 

35) ScienceNet Scholarship Listing

http://www.sciencenet.emory.edu/undergrad/scholarships.html

 

 

 

 

 

(for AA students in South Florida)

Each word has the same number of letters.

Each one of us has lived through each of these words and circumstances on one level or another.  It is up to us to decide how much time, thought and living we will give to each one.

I have learned from watching people whom I view as successful, those who are famous and those who are not.  There are several common threads that never ever EVER change.

1.   They have a very specific goal.

2.   They have a detailed plan.

3.   They add to their knowledge base regularly.

4.   They make mistakes.

5.   They fail.

6.   They examine why and how they failed.

7.   They get up and keep moving.

8.   They learn from their failure and change it from a failure to part of their learning experience on their way to success.

9.   They stay focused on their goal.

10. They never give up.

There are many supportive phases, steps, sources of information to expand each of these and over the next 10 days, to the best of my ability I will complete each one.  Be encouraged.  Not only because it is a new year, but it is a new day, a new hour, a new chance to continue from where you are and  move closer to where you want to be.  I know firsthand about failure, and I can sit down with you anytime you want, and show you how I failed, why I failed, what I learned and what I have done to turn it into success.  There is still a whole lot of work for me to do on myself, but I am doing better.  Baby steps forward are still forward steps. 

Love yourself more this year.  Love yourself more and allow yourself to grow.  I don’t want to be better than you.  That is impossible.  I don’t want you to be better than me.  That is impossible.  But we can both be better today than we were yesterday.  That is my hope for you.  That 8is my wish for you.  In 2010 and always.

IT IS OUR LIGHT, NOT OUR DARKNESS THAT MOST FRIGHTENS US.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There’s nothign enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shire, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.

Personal note from Dorma.  This is the quoe that has made the biggest difference in my life.  This is the message that has given me strength and most of all, courage, when I needed it most.

Do you need me?  I am there.

You cannot see Me, yet, I am the light you see by.

You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.

you cannot feel Me, yet, I am the power at work in your hands.

I am at work, though you you do not understand My ways.

I am at work, though you do not recognize my works.

I am not strange visions,  I am not mysteries.

Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am, and then but as a feeling and a faith.

Yet I am there.  Yet I hear.  Yet I answer.

When you need Me, I am there.

Even if you deny Me, I am there.

Even when you feel most alone, I am there.

Even in your fears, I am there.

Even in your pain, I am there.

I am there when you pray and when you do not pray. 

I am in you, and you are in Me.

Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in your mind are the mists of “yours” and “mine”.

Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.

Empty your heart of empty fears.

When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.

You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.  And I am in all.

Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.

I am there because I have to be, because I am.

Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take form; only because of Me does the world go forward.

Ii am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living ccells are founded.

I am the love that is the law’s fulfilling.

I am assurance.

I am peace.

I am oneness.

I am the law that you can live by.

I am the love that you can cling to.

I am your assurance.

I am your peace.

I am one with you.

I am.

Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.

Though your faith in Me is unsure, my faith in you never wavers, because I know you, because I love you.

Beloved, I am there.

a COPY OF “I AM THERE” IS NOW ON THE MOON. . .CARRIED THERE ON THE APPOLLO XV VOYAGE BY ASTRONAUT JAMES B. IRWIN, AND LEFT ON THE MOON FOR FUTURE SPAACE VOYAGERS.

The sun has gone down from the sky and peace of night is drawing night.

I pray, Dear God, my soul You’ll keep, while in Your loving arms I sleep.

Forgive the things I did today, when from Your glorious path I’d stray.

And as I slumber through the night Please take my hand and hold it tight.

And when I awake to a bright new morn, restored, refreshed, renewed, reborn.

I’ll try again, Dear God, to be the person You would hope of me.

I said a prayer for you today, and know God must have heard -

I felt the answer in my heart, although He spoke no word!

I didn’t ask for wealth or fame (I knew you wouldn’t mind)-

I asked Him to send treasures of a far more lasting kind!

I asked that He’d be near you at the start of each new day

To grant you health and blessings and friends to share your way!

I asked for happiness for you in all things great and small

But it was for His loving care I prayed for most of all!

My name is gossip.  I have no respect for justice.

I maim without killing.  I break hearts and ruin lives.

i am cunning and malicious and gather strength with age.  The more I am quoted the more I am believed.

I flourish at every level of society.

My victims are helpless.  They cannot protect themselves against me because I have no name and no face. 

To knock me down ins impossible.  the harder you try, the more elusive I become.

I am nobody’s friend.

Once I tarnish a reputation, it is never the same.

I topple governments and wrech marriages.

I ruin careers and cause sleepless nights, heartache and iindigestion.

I spawn suspiscion and generate grief.

i make innocent people cry in their pillows.

Even my name hisses.

I am called gossip

Telephone gossip.

Party gossip.

Office gossip.

Shop gossip.

I make headlines and heartaches.

 

Before you repeat a story, ask yourself, is it true?  Is it fair?  Is it necessary?  IF NOT – DON’T REPEAT IT!

Many A Man who is in love with a dimple, makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl, said Stephen Leacock.

I quoted this aphorism last week to a young man who confided to me that he had almost decided to marry a certain girl because she has such “fine qualities.”

One of the grand errors we tend to make when we are young is supposing that a person is a bundle of qualities.  And we add up the individual’s good and had qualities, like a bookkeeper working on debits and credits. 

If the balance is favorable, we may decide to take the jump.  But human arithmetic has an X factor that never shows up on the books.  It is this X factor, and not the qualities themselves, that determines the success or failure of an emotional relationship.

The world is full of unhappy men and women who married their mates because of a preponderance of “good” qualities – honesty, gentleness, stability, generosity.  It seemed to be a sound investment.

Love, however, is not an investment: it is an adventure.  And when the marriage turns out to be as dull and comfortable as a sound investment, the disgruntled party soon turns elsewhere for adventure.

We have lost sight of the fact that a personality is much more than a collection of traits, and that love is a celebration of a mystery, not an inventory of assets.

No one knows why two personalities do or do not get along well together; but we do know that is has little to do with the traits you can weigh and measure and tabulate.

Ignorant people are always saying, “I wonder what he sees in her,” not realizing that what he sees iin her (and what no one else can see in her) is the secret essence of love.  Love is always an overevaluation – a distortion, if you will – of the other person.

Entering a marriage calmly and rationally is like dancing a bacchanal calmly and rationally; it is a contradiction in terms.  It takes into account everything except what is important: the spirit.

This is why living with a “good” person we do not love is infinitely more of a hell than loving a “bad” person we have to learn to live with.  Take a look around and see if it isn’t so.

Unless you really want some encouragement.  I don’t know what you are facing, but eventually things will turn around and your life will be better.  Even if it improves only one notch or one stop up the ladder, that is one notch, or one step better than it was.  Like many of us, I want my dreams fulfilled overnight.  I want the business, life partner, weight loss, friendships to be manifested immediately.  As soon as I pray or meditate or think about what I want, I want it now.  God and life don’t work that way.  At least not all the time.  Those things we need right away, we get.  But if you just don’t quit, and keep working at it, eventually you will get there.  I know from experience, becuase of how long I had to keep working, encouraging myself and waiting some more.  When I quit, I never got there.  But when I held on and kept working at what was important to me, especially within my gift, I got what I wanted.  Most of the time more.  You can make it.  You can do it.  You can have it.  I don’t care what it is.  In the blogs ahead, I will continue to encourage you, but I will also share with you things I have done and seen others do that worked.  If you just keep going, you will get there!