Marion Dewar Scholarship Fund Competition announced by Ottawa Community Immigrant

Services (OCISO) - Invest in Our Future Leaders. Mark your calendars for application completion by 8 August (forwarded by Farhat Rehman)

Dear Community Partners:

RE: The Marion Dewar Scholarship Fund

Honour Marion Dewar’s Legacy: Invest in Our Future Leaders

Ottawa Community Immigrant Services (OCISO) is pleased to announce that the 2011 Marion Dewar Scholarship Fund competition is now open to qualifying immigrant/ refugee students enrolled in or planning to pursue post-secondary education in the National Capital Region. The deadline to receive completed applications is August 8, 2011. See scholarship criteria below.

The candidate must:

•    Be resident of the National Capital Region for at least one year.

•    Be immigrant or refugee youth.

•    Demonstrate significant financial need.

•    Be graduating high school senior or from another accredited secondary institution in the National Capital Region.

•    Be enroll in first year of a first degree program or certificate program for the first time at an accredited post-secondary institution as a FULL-TIME student.

•    Have a go academic standing: A minimum GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 80%.

•    Demonstrate leadership skills and community involvement (in addition to the forty hours of community service requirement for high school students).

To apply, please click Scholarship Application Form to download a form and mail the completed form to the address enclosed in the form. For more information about the scholarship fund, please review the Marion Dewar Scholarship Fund Overview or contact Joycelyn Glover at 613 725 5671 ext. 334 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Briefly, the Marion Dewar Scholarship Fund (MDSF) was established in 2009 by the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization to honour the late Marion Dewar, former Mayor of Ottawa. The Scholarship Fund provides financial support to foster academic and leadership excellence among refugee and immigrant high school students by supplementing the tuition and supplies required for their post-secondary education. The MDSF is administered financially by the Community Foundation of Ottawa and overseen by the MDSF Committee. For more information about the Fund, visit the OCISO website at: www.ociso.org.

Thank you for your support.

Hamdi Mohamed

Executive Director

Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization

Tel: 725-5671 x 307

Fax: 725-9054

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