Financial Assistance Opportunities
The Girl Scouts of Orange County believes that all girls should have the opportunity to participate in the Girl Scout experience and not be limited by economic factors. The Board of Directors annually approves Financial Assistance to help girls fund membership, purchase uniforms, attend camp, and participate in troops, events, or activities.
Scholarships
Check for scholarship opportunities for Girl Scouts in Orange County to support the amazing things they do!
Addiction Resource Scholarship Essay
Contest
Next Deadline: TBD
AddictionResource.net offers a $1,000
scholarship for full-time students age 18 and over pursuing an
Associate's, Bachelor, Master, or Doctorate degree. A first and
runner-up prize is available through an essay contest, highlighting a
subject that is common amongst students, binge drinking on college campuses.
Aspiring
Scholars of Yorba Linda
Next Deadline: April 14, 2025
The Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce Foundation provides
scholarships of $500 - $1000 each to high school seniors within the
Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District service area who have a
2.3 or better cumulative grade point average.
Boom & Bucket’s Student Scholarship
Program
Next Deadline: March 31, 2026
Boom
& Bucket offers a scholarship of $1,000 to be awarded each year to
a currently enrolled students or future student student pursuing a
heavy machinery themed program and planning to attend a program within
the next 12 months at a college or a trade school anywhere in the
United States or Canada.
Cirkled in
Scholarship
Next deadline: June 30, 2025
The
Cirkled in Scholarship is a quarterly scholarship of $2,500 with a
generic theme of “Cirkled In - No Sweat” Scholarship and no essay.
There is no minimum GPA or any income requirement for 8-12th grade
students and the scholarship can be applied to any educational need,
such as tuition, books, supplies, or transportation.
Chapman University Institutional Awards
Contact Chapman University for additional information on
financial aid, scholarships and grants, and institutional
awards.
Chapman University offers institutional awards
for students to help pay for the cost of education.
Cora Change the Cycle Scholarship
Opens
September 2025
Cora is awarding $10,000 to three college
visionaries who are raising awareness about period poverty and
reproductive health on their campuses. This scholarship aims to
support the next generation of change makers who support period access
and education for all.
Corinne Jeannine Shillings Foundation
Next Deadlines: Friday, May 16, 2025 (5:00 pm, CST) (for Initial
and Renewal Academic Scholarships, and Full Year, 1st
Semester and Summer Travel Abroad Scholarships) and Friday, December
5, 2025 (5:00 pm, CST) (for 2nd semester Travel Abroad
Scholarships)
The Corinne Jeannine Shillings Foundation
awards Academic Scholarships and Travel Scholarships to Silver and
Gold Award Girl Scouts who plan to/are currently majoring/minoring in
a foreign language at a four-year college/university or who plan to
study abroad, regardless of their major/minor.
Create Real Impact
Contest
Next Deadline: April 15 2025
Impact
Teen Drivers, a nonprofit organization founded by the California
Highway Patrol, holds an annual contest and calls on students, ages
14-22, to showcase their positive solutions and strategies to stop the
#1 killer of young people–car crashes caused by reckless and
distracted driving! Students enter by using their creativity to either
design a poster or produce a 3-minute video on the message of safety
for passengers and drivers. There are two ways to enter: individual
for personal prizes of $1,000, $500 or $250 OR one entry per high
school with prizes of $10,000, $7,500 or $5,000 (ie. a group of Girl
Scouts can contact their principal to ask to represent their high school.)
Diller Teen
Tikkun Olam Awards
Next Deadline: Applications and
Nominations open August 2025
The Helen Diller Family
Foundation honors 15 Jewish teens annually with awards of $36,000
each. The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards recognize young changemakers
who have significant impact in leading initiatives that embody the
values of tikkun olam, repairing the world.
Dragon Kim Foundation Fellowship Program
Next Deadline: January 2026
Dragon Kim Fellowship
Program awards up to $5,000 community service grants to support
motivated high school students who want to create and manage a program
next summer that will make an impact in the community.
Edison Scholars
Next Deadline: January 2026
The Edison Scholars
Program recognizes students who want to be makers of tomorrow — the
dreamers, inventors, guardians and pioneers — those who dare to be
great. Edison International will award $50,000 college scholarships to
30 high school seniors to help them follow their dreams in science,
technology, engineering, or math (STEM) and empower them to change the
world. This is a chance for students with big dreams to advance their
education and take part in shaping a brighter future.
Edwards
Lifesciences Scholarship Program
Resource
The Edwards Lifesciences Scholarship Program provides renewable
$2,500 awards for students pursuing a major in science, technology,
engineering or math (STEM majors). Applicants must be United States
citizens or legal residents who are high school seniors and residents
of Orange County, CA; Salt Lake County, UT; or Puerto Rico, and
recipients must demonstrate financial need.
GSUSA
Gold Award Scholarship Program
Apply between March 15 – April 15, 2025
The 2025
GSUSA Gold Award Scholarship Program provided a $5,000 academic
scholarship to one Gold Award Girl Scout per council who demonstrated
extraordinary leadership, measurable and sustainable impact, and
addressed an issue of global and/or national significance.
Gloria
Barron Prize for Young Heroes
Next deadline: April 15
annually
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, a
program of the nonprofit organization Young Heroes Project, celebrates
inspiring, public-spirited young people from diverse backgrounds all
across North America. Each year, the Barron Prize honors 25
outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant
positive difference to people and the environment.
LA Tutors
Next
deadline: the 20th of each month
LA Tutors
awards students who showcase their creativity and make positive
impacts with a $500 Innovation in Education scholarship. On an ongoing
monthly basis, this scholarship is open to all currently enrolled high
school, college, and graduate students who showcase their creativity
while helping those around them (whether that be in a creative
fundraiser, an inventive new app, series of blog posts on a particular
theme, or another idea). The application deadline is 11:59 pm PST on
the 20th of each month.
Minerva Scholarship
Next deadline: May 31st, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The
Minerva scholarship offers female students financial assistance to
meet educational expenses. This year there are up to 126 one-time
$3,000 scholarships and one $10,000 Golden Minerva Scholarship.
Medical Physician Preparation (MPP) Academy
Deadlines Vary
MPP is an early outreach "pre-med and medical/health
professional school readiness" program, committed to preparing
the next generation of medical doctors (MD's | DO's), health
professionals (i.e., Physician Assistants, Nurses, Dentists,
EMTs/Paramedics) and scientists for the physician and healthcare
workforce with scholarships and financial aid available.
The
National Jewish Committee on Girl Scouting (NJCGS)
Next Deadline: TBD 2026
The National Jewish Committee on Girl Scouting (NJCGS) is
excited to announce a new program: one scholarship of approximately
$500 for post-high school education that can be applied for by Girl
Scouts who have earned both their Gold Award AND their Or Emunah Award
(the religious award earned by Jewish Girl Scouts in their high school years).
$2,000 Nitro Scholarship
Next
Deadline: April 30, 2025
The $2,000 Nitro Scholarship
Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the
District of Columbia and any US Territory age 17 or older at the time
of entry, and who meet one (1) of the four (4) following eligibility
requirements at the time of entry.
Orange
County Youth Sports Foundation Scholarship
Next
Deadline: Scholarship Applications are due by Sunday, April 27,
2025
For the last 52 years we have provided scholarships
to incredible Orange County high school senior scholar-athletes. This
year we will award up to 20 scholarships of at least $3,500 each to
deserving graduating seniors to help pay for college.
Prudential Emerging Visionaries Program
Resource
Prudential Emerging Visionaries recognizes
young people, ages 14-18, for innovative solutions to a financial or
societal challenge and accepts applications from September-November
annually. Selected applicants may qualify for up to $15,000 in awards,
an all-expenses-paid trip, and coaching and skills development..
QuestBridge College Prep Scholars Program &
National College Match
Resource
The College Prep Scholars Program equips
high-achieving high school juniors from low-income backgrounds with
the knowledge, confidence, and resources to apply to top colleges.
Rover College
Scholarship
Next deadline: May 1, 2025
Graduating high school seniors write a 400-500 word essay for a
chance to win $2500.
SoCalGas
Scholarship Program
Deadline is April 1, 2025
The SoCalGas Scholarship Program encourages students to pursue
higher education and supports their academic endeavors. Up to $315,000
will be awarded to high school seniors attending four-year university,
community college or trade school.
Society
of Women Engineers SWE Orange County Section Scholarship
Next deadline: April 6, 2025
SWE-OC offers Graduate
and Undergraduate Student Scholarships to students at our local
colleges, and an Endowed Scholarship that Orange County for high
school seniors.
T-Mobile
Changemaker Challenge
Resource
T-Mobile, the T-Mobile Foundation, and
Ashoka are teaming up for the fifth Changemaker Challenge, a
nationwide contest that gives young leaders ages 13-18 with bold ideas
for driving digital empowerment, putting equity into action, and
supporting a thriving planet the opportunity to take their ideas for
creating a more connected, equitable, and sustainable future to the
next level.
Taco Bell
Ambition Accelerator
Resource
Taco Bell
Foundation’s Ambition Accelerator aims to fuel the next generation’s
bold ambitions for creating change. Youth ages 16-26 with an idea to
impact your community for the better or an already established social
impact initiative can apply and win total cash prizes up to $25,000.
Applications will be accepted until March 14 (US) and March 15
(India), 2024!
Taco Bell
Foundation Live Más Scholarship
Next deadline:
Application is open from November-January
The Taco Bell
Foundation Live Más Scholarship is This scholarship is for students
(ages 16-26) who are passionate about creating a better future and
making a positive impact on their community. This is not needs or
achievement based; it is a passion-based scholarship program.
VFW Scout of the
Year
Next deadline: March 1 annually
Veterans
of Foreign Wars recognizes Gold Award Girl Scouts for standout
citizenship, patriotism and love of country.
Search for scholarships
available for Girl Scouts on the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) website.
