Social Good Scholarship
Direct application
$2,000
3 winners
Eligibility
Education level
High school
About this scholarship
U.S. accredited public or private high school juniors and seniors with a 3.25+ GPA who demonstrate community service and civic engagement may apply for the D'Andre D. Lampkin Foundation Social Good Scholarship. Three awards are granted: one $2,000 grand prize and two $1,000 honorable mentions.
Submit a 30-second to 3-minute video on your community impact plus the online application; finalists complete a phone interview. Preference for students interested in public service.
Essay questions
What else to submit
- Online application
- 30-second to 3-minute community-impact video
- Brief biography and recent photo participating in a social-good project
- Most recent high school transcript
- Two non-family references
- Video submission required: 30 seconds to 3 minutes, in a YouTube-compatible format (WebM, MPEG4, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG PS, WMV, FLV). Video prompt (verbatim): 'Explain how you are making your community
- Brief biography and a recent photo of yourself participating in a social-good project (uploaded together) — no stated length/word limit
- Minimum 3.0 cumulative (weighted) GPA
- List of current high school/community college courses
- List of in-school and out-of-school extra-curricular activities
- Highest single-sitting SAT and ACT scores
- Two non-family references (names, phone, email)
- Most recent high school transcript (upload)
- Finalists complete a phone interview.
- Provide lists of current courses and in-school and out-of-school extracurricular activities.
- Submit highest single-sitting SAT and ACT scores; no minimum score is stated.