CHARITABLE WORK - Scholarships Policy

The Saint George's Society (SGS) Scholarship Committee has established the following grant guidelines for the Society's university-level recipients:

1. The Society's funds will be directed to matriculated undergraduate upperclassmen/ women (with a minimum of 60-plus earned credits) at four senior colleges of the City University of
New York.  The colleges which are the initial targets for the SGS Program are: Brooklyn, City, Lehman, and Queens.  These institutions have the largest local concentration of British Commonwealth immigrants or first generation BC descendants.   (NB: The Committee emphatically rejected the idea of assisting high-achieving students at the great private colleges and universities since such students receive very generous full support through the endowed scholarship programs at those institutions, and it was felt that the Society’s funds will simply be used as a dollar-for-dollar replacement of funds that are already guaranteed to such students through the scholarship, awards, and financial aid apparatus of such institutions.)

2. Recipients must have a combined Grade Point Average of 3.50 (on a 4.0 system) in order to qualify for SGS assistance.

3. The SGS Grant is renewable for an additional (Senior) year if the recipient is in his or her Junior Year of study as long as the 3.50 GPA is maintained.

4. The SGS Grant must not cause the student's package of combined Federal, NY State, and institutional Financial Aid to be exceeded.  (Federal Financial Aid Packaging and Cost of Attendance Formulas will be strictly applied.)

5. Recipients will be nominated annually by the Financial Aid and Scholarship/Award directors at the four target colleges.

6. The Directors will be urged and expected to nominate only those upperclassmen whose aid packages have substantial Student Loan obligations.  It is the direct aim of the SGS Grant to reduce and offset, as much as possible, the student loan indebtedness of the recipient.

7. Recipients must be immigrants from one of the 116 countries which comprise the British Commonwealth (list attached) or have one parent who is of BC origin. Verification of British Commonwealth origins must be submitted to the Society as a part of the nomination process.

8. Copies of the recipient's most recent FAFSA (Application for Federal Student Financial Aid) must be submitted the Society.

9. Recipient must be a citizen of the United States or have been admitted into to the United States as a permanent resident, refugee, or asylee (based on such designated status consistent with current U.S. immigration law).

10. The amount of the SGS Grant will be determined annually by the Officers and Board of Directors of the SGS.