OLM Malala Yousafzai Scholarship 2017-18

OLM Malala Yousafzai Scholarship 2017-18

OLM Malala Yousafzai Scholarship 2017-18 invites application for the women applicants only whose age should be 30 years or more who want to go back to school to start or continue interrupted studies in the Arts and Design field. It requires a 500 to 1000 words essay written in English about a challenge you have faced and how you overcame it. The selected women will be awarded $ 1000.

Acknowledging the difficulty that women face on a sexist society, Online Logo Maker provide a $1000 scholarship to a woman. All women, from all over the world, who have 30 years old or more and want the opportunity to go back to college or start studies in the Arts and Design field can apply.

If you have any questions you may contact OLM via scholarship@onlinelogomaker.com.

Goldman Sachs provides $75,000 funding to Educate Girls

Goldman Sachs provides $75,000 funding to Educate Girls

Non-profit organisation Educate Girls has received a grant of USD 75,000 (about Rs 48.26 lakh) from leading global brokerage firm Goldman Sachs.

Educate Girls secured the funding as a team of analysts from the Bengaluru office of Goldman Sachs came at the second place in the "2017 Goldman Sachs Gives Global Analyst Impact Fund" competition.

The first place went to Kiron Open Higher Education, which is a Berlin-based non-profit which connects refugees to content, mentoring, and accreditation needed to achieve higher education.

The annual Analyst Impact Fund is an initiative that provides Goldman Sachs employees with the opportunity to collaborate with peers from across global offices to win a grant for a non-profit organisation of their choice and impact the communities where they live and work.

The funding comes from Goldman Sachs Gives, a donor- advised fund through which the investment bank and its current and retired senior employees provide grants to qualifying non- profit organisations globally.

Educate Girls is a Mumbai-based non-profit organisation that works towards improving enrolment, retention and learning outcomes for girls in some of the most rural and marginalised communities in India.

Fair and Lovely Scholarships 2012

Fair and Lovely Scholarships 2012

To encourage the economic empowerment of the Indian women through information and resources in the areas of education,career and enterprise.

The Fair & Lovely Foundation provides scholarships worth up to Rs 1 lakh each year for deserving girl students from low-income families who display an excellent academic track record, as well as social initiative and drive. To date,the Foundation has given out more than 1000 scholarships to deserving applicants.

Eligibility :

* Candidates should have secured minimum 60% in the 10th and 12th standard
* Scholarship is open only to women with Indian citizenship - age no bar
* Candidates should want to pursue graduation, post graduation and PhD studies from Government Recognised Indian Universities
* Scholarship will be awarded solely as per the discretion of the panel of judges depending on the candidate's family income

To apply for the scholarships you can either download the application form by clicking here and courier it to the below mentioned address or you can fill it online.

The downloaded form needs to be duly filled and couriered along with below mentioned documents to:

Fair & Lovely Foundation,
P.O.Box No. 11281, Marine Lines Post Office,
Mumbai 400 020.

Application submission closes on 31st October, 2012.

For any query contact Toll-free (MTNL/BSNL) 1800-220-130

For more information visit : http://fairandlovely.in/

Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Girl Child 2011

Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Girl Child 2011

UGC Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Girl Child Post Graduate Education 2011

Compensating direct costs of girl education to all levels especially for such girls who happen to be the only girl child in their family.the objectives of the proposed scheme of the UGC are to support post-graduate education of single girl child in non-professional courses only.The value of scholarship is Rs.2000/- per month for a period of two years only. No other additional grant will be payable in lieu of hostel charges and medical charges etc.

Eligibility:

i) Any single girl child of her parents. In a family if one son and one daughter is available then girl child will not be considered for scholarship under the scheme.
ii) The scheme is applicable to such a single girl child who has taken admission in regular, full-time 1st year Masters Degree course in any recognized university or a post graduate college.
iii)This scholarship is available to PG-I year student only.
iv) Admission to PG Course in distance education mode is not covered under the scheme.

Age: Girl students up to the age of 30 years at the time of admission in PG courses are eligible.

Apply online at www.ugc.ac.in/sgc

Deadline 25th September 2011

Nasscom-Animation Training To Women

Nasscom Foundation (NF), the social development wing of National Association of Software Services Companies (Nasscom) has introduced a training programme in animation for women.

This programme has been introduced at the Hyderabad and Sangli Center of NF.

"Women with an artistic inclination have been selected for the course. This programme has been designed with an aim to provide job opportunities to women", an official at Nasscom said.

Girls will have to pay lesser course fee for the programme and they can pay it once they are employed.

For the continuance of its varied programs, NF has partnered with many companies like Microsoft, Cognizant, Intel and Azim Premji Foundation.