Law Enforcement Benefit Scholarship

Award Amount
Application deadline
Awarded By:

Winston-Salem Foundation

Number of Awards & Eligibility: The number of awards offered varies annually.
In order to qualify, students must meet the following criteria:
  1. This award is for international and U.S. students.
  2. Must be a graduating high school senior or already attending a postsecondary educational institution. Children who have already left home and are self-supporting will not be eligible to apply.
  3. Must be the dependent child of an eligible officer.
  4. Must have a parent who was a slain officer from the Winston-Salem Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, or N.C. State Highway Patrol (located in Forsyth County).

In order to qualify, students must meet the following criteria:

Description: This scholarship is open to dependent children of slain officers from the Winston-Salem Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, or N.C. State Highway Patrol (located in Forsyth County). Students may be high school seniors or already enrolled in postsecondary education; students who have already left home and are self-supporting are not eligible.

Application requirements for the Law Enforcement Benefit Scholarship are:

  • Application form
  • Official Transcript
  • Tax return(s)
  • FAFSA
  • Recommendation letter
Additional Information: All applicants for this award must demonstrate financial need, although the award is not restricted to lower incomes. In order to be eligible to apply for financial aid from the Foundation, 50 percent or more of the student's college courses must be taken in a traditional classroom setting. A Student Aid committee of The Winston-Salem Foundation will select recipients. The committee reserves the right to rescind an award should a recipient's circumstances change, such as failure to graduate from high school or failure to enroll at an accredited institution. The Foundation reserves the right to withhold the award in the event that no applicants are deemed to meet the qualifications.

Award Amount: Award amounts vary annually based on the recipient's financial need and availability of funding. Awards are non-renewable. Scholarships will be applied to the cost of undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board, and other college expenses. Once recipient(s) have been selected, checks will be issued jointly to the college and to the recipient, and will be mailed to the recipient's home address for the student to deliver to the college's financial aid office. Separate checks will be issued for fall and spring semesters. Check processing requires approximately two weeks.  The total dollars awarded for this scholarship is $1,767.

Deadline Information:

Deadline for this scholarship is Monday, April 1

Deadline Information:

Deadline for this scholarship is Monday, April 1

Program information is available on the Winston-Salem Foundation website. To apply for this award, the student must complete the Foundation's Common Application in its entirety. The student must register an account with his/her email address to access the application. The online application system will automatically identify those scholarship opportunities for which the student appears to be eligible based on information he/she enters in the "Basic Information and Qualifying Criteria" section of the application. The student may apply for all scholarships for which he/she is eligible via the Common Application. In addition to a completed Common Application, the student must submit the following materials: high school grade transcript through at least the first semester of the 12th grade or year-end college grade transcript, whichever is the most recent; a signed copy of his/her parents' federal tax return from last year, if a dependent student; a signed copy of his/her federal tax return from last year; a copy of his/her Student Aid Report (SAR) if he/she has applied for federal financial aid; and a letter of recommendation from the Winston-Salem Police Chief, the Sheriff of Forsyth County, or the Commanding Officer of the N.C. State Highway Patrol Department (whichever is appropriate). The application and all supplemental materials must be received by the deadline indicated in order to receive consideration.
About Winston-Salem Foundation:
Contact Information: Edna Barker, Student Aid Associate
Address: 751 W. Fourth St. Suite 200 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101-2702

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